Week 2

Hi folks,


Did July come when I wasn't looking?? The spring produce is wilting in the field with this incredible early heat. We use row covers to cover crops that are susceptible to insects, it's the organic thing to do, but we had to take them off today as they do increase temperature a bit under them and with temps in the 90's.....kind of a catch 22 situation.

I was working with our new helper Liz, who just started today and was shocked when she said that she would be back tomorrow. What a trooper!

You'll be receiving a few new items this week, sugar snap peas, radishes and garlic scapes. I'm including a garlic scape pesto recipe with this email. The garlic scape is a shoot that the garlic plant springs forth this time of year and can be diced up and used in any dish that you might like a nice mild garlic flavor. For you Rousedale veterans, you know I waited a bit to long to harvest the scapes last year and they were somewhat tough, ok they were very tough, ok they were downright unusable. This year they are young and extremely tender and I think you'll get some nice use out of these weird looking things.

So in your crates this week:

pac choi
radishes
sugar snap peas (some have gotten a little big, but are still very tender and sweet..shuck a couple for the sweetest pea treat you've ever tasted)
spicy salad mix
mild salad mix
spinach
strawberries
kale (nice comments from some surprised kale haters)
garlic scapes
spring onions

Have had a lot of inquiries about when the honey would be ready. We take our honey off the hives around the fourth of July and hopefully will have plenty to stock the shelves.

Hope you had a nice holiday weekend! See you Wednesday.

Steve and Vicky