CSA Week 10: Summer's Bounty
Farm Share Newsletter - August 6, 2023
Housekeeping
IMPORTANT REMINDER: We will NOT be delivering CSAs on Sunday, August 13 and Wednesday, August 16. We're attending a wedding (ours).
We will start delivering CSAs again on Sunday, August 20 and Wednesday, August 23. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
VASHON REMINDER: Since your shares are refrigerated, your dry goods (tomatoes, garlic, etc.) have/will be placed outside the fridge. Until we find a better spot for them, they will be in blue quart containers on the floor.
FINALLY: In two weeks, look out for a mid-CSA survey that will help us better serve you! We'll have questions about make-up shares, crop selection, a potential member appreciation day at the farm, and more!
This Week's Share:
Moskovich slicing tomato
Tigerella tomatoes
Thai basil
Scallions
Daikon
Asian eggplant
Head lettuce
Amaranth
Garlic
A choy
Whew!
(Keeping this short again due to time constraints.)
We may have had our biggest harvest yet yesterday. We had a large catering order in addition to market, a couple wholesale orders, and your shares! Thankfully, both of our families happen to be in town and, man, never had I ever so embraced the adage of many hands making light work until yesterday.
We harvested extra hard to make up for next week's gap, picking skinny cucumbers, ruthlessly cutting our herbs, and plucking less-than-ripe tomatoes. Among those tomatoes are the Moskovich slicers that we included last week and a couple tigerellas, this gorgeous, high-yielding mini slicer that packs a tangy punch. We also included a small serving of Asian eggplant. All the rest went to our catering order. Don't worry! You'll definitely get a bigger quantity in the near future. The thinner, Asian variety in your share doesn't need to be pre-soaked, as some people do with the larger Italian-associated varieties.
Our latest daikon crop turned out well, which feels amazing because we have not had great luck with daikon in previous seasons due to wireworms, one of our worst pests. We've since learned that throwing row cover on our daikon (and other brassica root crops such as turnips) can really go a long way in preventing pest damage.
We started harvesting from a new bed of lettuce, and last I tasted, they are about as good as they've ever been at Tian Tian Farm. A choy is back and fresh! Amaranth too! We've heard from some of you who particularly like these two crops, so we're very happy to pack them in farm shares again. We've finally made a sizable dent in our scallion surplus. Hopefully you use them as much as I do, meaning every day. Our shallots our popping up, so expect a (welcome?) allium changeup in the coming weeks.
Apologies for the brevity.
'Till Two Weeks From Now,
Steven