Share Notes July 10, 2025

We’re so excited to be bringing you another great box of nutritious, beautiful veggies!

Here’s your vegetable line-up this week:

• Slicing Tomatoes –  We’re so excited to bring your our pretty red slicers. Store them on the counter, upside down, and allow to fully ripen. Some are ready to eat right away, some need a few days on the counter. Remember to never refrigerate your tomatoes! They become mealy below 55 degrees. Fresh salsa, caprese salad, Greek salad, sliced with salt and pepper, just EAT ‘EM.
• Squash –  Plenty for the Large and Regular shares.  We’ve got a yellow straight neck for you as well as a really cool green and yellow striped squash called zephyr. It’s tender and delicious. Enough for the Large and Regular shares this week.
• Zucchini – Enough for everyone this week! You might have our Romanesco zucchini or our Black Beauty. Both are wonderful. This veggie has featured in our kitchen through fantastic zucchini boats stuffed with mushrooms, sausage, topped with parmesan, we’ve made zucchini noodles to sub in for pasta for a low-carb-eater in our house.
• Basil – A sprig of Italian Genovese Basil for everyone.  Important Storage Tip: Don’t refrigerate your basil or it will ruin and turn black! It needs to be stored in a glass of water on the counter and it’ll be fresh for several days. If wilty when you receive it, trim the stem and place in a glass of cold water and see if it perks up. If not, hang to dry to enjoy dried basil after basil season is over!
• Cucumbers – A tiny bit for everyone!  I LOVE a fresh cucumber salad. Enjoy, friends!
• Potatoes – A mixed bag: white kennebec. These are excellent for boiling, roasting, home fries, or potato salad. Yum!
• Onions – A trio for all. The onion harvest for this year was small, (exceedingly wet conditions) so we’ll only have onions for you for a few weeks before we run through the whole crop. Enjoy them while we’ve got them!
• Garlic – A few for everyone. Just like the onions, they did not like the boggy conditions they were growing in throughout April and May. And when we harvested them, they were caked in mud, so the papery outer coating may be unattractive, but the innards are delicious! Most years we have such amazing and beautiful garlic that we’re so proud of. Welp, better luck next year!
• Sungolds – Just enough for the Mini shares this week. These are super sweet and delicious for snacking and salads.
• Okra – Just enough for the regular shares this week. This is a Texas Heirloom called Hill Country Red and it stays tender and delicious even when it gets fairly large. It’s perfect when prepared at high heat: oven roasted, grilled, or blistered in a cast iron. Being that a tragedy struck the Hill Country this week, please eat this crop with a prayer on your lips for our Texan family who have suffered losses this week.
• Peppers – Jalapenos for the Large and Regular shares this week.
• Eggplant – The Large shares received a Japanese or an Italian eggplant. The Mini shares received our adorable and delicious Fairytale Eggplant.  Eggplant wants fast, high heat cooking, just like okra, to prevent a funky texture. If used super fresh, theres no need to sweat them, but if you store them for a couple of days, you’ll want to slice and salt them to let any bitterness sweat out before cooking.

Veggie Storage tips:

• Everything wants to be washed well before cooking, but keep the dirt on till then, to prevent faster spoilage.
• Fridge storage this week:  squash, zucchini, eggplant, cucumber, peppers, okra, all sealed up in a container or plastic bag.
• Counter storage:  Don’t refrigerate your basil, tomatoes, garlic, or onions.
• Dark cabinet storage: Potatoes keep best away from the light, but in the open air. Don’t keep them in the plastic bag, switch to a paper bag or in an open-air basket in your cupboard.

Regular Share

Regular Share – top row left to right: Basil, zucchini, squash, cucumbers, jalapenos, and Hill Country Red Okra, (2nd row) onions, garlic, potatoes, and a buuuuunch of tomatoes!

Large Share

Large shares – top row left to right: Basil, zucchini, squash, eggplant, jalapenos, and cucumber, (2nd row) onions, garlic, potatoes, and a buuuuunch of tomatoes!

Mini Share

Mini shares – top row left to right: Basil, zucchini, cucumbers, Fairytale Eggplant, (2nd row) sungolds, onions, garlic, potatoes, and a buuuuunch of tomatoes!

Flower Shares:

Lovely color mixes this week. Loads and loads of zinnias, basil, Purple Kisses ammi, cockscomb celosia, and a bit of trailing amaranth and cosmos and cranberry cosmos, a little bit of our giant marigolds, and lastly, just a few rudbeckia and sunflowers, but those are just about done!

I hope you love the color scheme you received this week! Snap a picture of yours and show us on instagram!

We’d love to hear stories and recipes of your culinary adventures this week. Tag us on Instagram or Facebook, showing us how you’ve used your CSA share.

Your farmers, Jess & Justin