Farm Update
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This pretty red lettuce is just one of the varieties in our
spring mix. |
Hi everyone! It’s
been another busy week at the farm, and an eventful one! Probably the biggest news this week is our
new delivery vehicle, which many of you saw this week! The old one, which has been on its last legs
for about a year now and has defied the expertise of three mechanics, has
finally been replaced. Over time, pretty
much everything on that old vehicle has gone out, and by the end, almost
nothing on it worked. We brought it into
the shop three times, and they couldn’t figure out what why it would suddenly
become very loud and slow down once we hit a certain speed, and no one on the
internet could offer any insight either.
So once that speed threshold became so low as to be well below the speed
limit, we knew we couldn’t make that old truck limp the rest of the way through
the season. So on Monday, Fred made an
emergency trip to Grand Rapids and bought our new vehicle, which has been so
nice! It’s wonderful to be able to drive
on the freeway without having to pull over and restart the truck every 10
minutes, and it also has air conditioning in the cab, which went out on the old
one long ago! There are many things I
take for granted and fail to appreciate, but those are no longer on that list.
In other news, our fall plantings of carrots are doing well
and looking great! We haven’t had to
irrigate as much either, since we got plenty of rain last week. We have been seeing quite a few of those
gross tomato horn worms in the coldframes, but that’s just par for the course
in August, and I daresay we might even miss them in January. Each part of the year brings its distinctive
experiences, and we are definitely in full-on summer now! The sun is out, the weather is hot, and things are growing! Even though it's a lot of work, just the sheer vitality and expansiveness of August makes this one of my favorite times of year!
What to Expect in This Week's Share
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| Swiss chard growing in the sunlight |
If you are picking up at one of our traditional style drop-offs (Alma, Mt. Pleasant, or Midland), here’s what the options will be at the different stations. If you have a half share, you’ll choose one item at each station, and if you have a full share, you choose two items at each station.
- Potatoes
- Cherry tomatoes or microgreens
- Green beans or carrots
- lettuce or broccoli
- zucchini, kale, or basil
- Surprise veggie
- Onion
If you have a prepacked share (Midland hospital, St. Johns, Lansing, Okemos, or home delivery), here are your options. If you have a half share, you’ll choose either share A or share B, and if you have a full share, you can choose two of them.
Share A: Share B:
Potatoes Potatoes
Cherry tomatoes Cherry tomatoes
Green beans Carrots
Lettuce Broccoli
Zucchini Kale
Surprise veggie Surprise veggie
Onion Onion
Recipes
So lately, I’ve had a bunch of people ask me what we do with
kale at our house.
Maybe they’ve never
quite taken a shine to kale and want to find out what we’re doing that makes us
love it so much, or maybe they’ve gotten into kind of a kale rut and want to
press reset on their routine.
So if you’re
in either one of those camps and are looking for some new ideas to get you
really excited about kale, check out these
47 Kale Recipes that go Beyond Salad.
Yup, 47 recipes!
I know that’s a lot, but you’ll almost
certainly find a few things you’re really excited to try!
Enjoy!
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