Share Notes, June 12, 2025

Welcome to the final week of the Spring CSA season!  Summer will be coming up soon as soon as we have enough crops ready to get started. Thank you for being a part of a very wet, very weather-y season. It was a doozy, but we got a ton of food out of that field for you guys. We hope you were well-nourished these past 2 months.

Here’s your vegetable line-up:

• Kale/Collard – Bunched Curly kale for the Large shares, collard for the regular shares, and Lacinato kale for the mini shares. Mixed with our red new potatoes, this all makes a wonderful Potato salad!
• Swiss Chard – for the Large shares.
• Potatoes – New Red potatoes.
• Onions – A trio for all.
• Arugula – peppery and delicious. The last of the salad greens till fall.
• Sungolds – Regular shares only. These bursts of sunshine are a customer fave that are long anticipated every year and they’re finally here! The best cherry tomato around, super sweet and delicious for snacking.
• Cabbages – a nice cabbage (or two minis!) for everyone. Ours went into a fantastic taco salad last night, and chicken tacos the night before.
• Green Tomatoes – Make a green tomato salsa, a tomato chutney, or fry them up southern style!
• Winona Blueberries – We’ve got a great special treat for you! These were grown by our friends at Winona Orchards, just down the road. They’ve longtime friends of Red Moon Farm. They strive to be sustainable, but they are not organic. In wet years, they rely upon antifungal chemical sprays to combat disease, and this was a wet spring. They strictly observe withdrawal times so that nothing is sprayed within a couple of weeks of harvest. We always suggest a good baking soda soak for any non-organic produce you buy to break down and wash away chemical residues.  Even though we do not grow exactly the same way, we support them and their contributions to a more stable and robust local food system.  We hope you love their berries!

Veggie Storage tips:

• Everything wants to be washed well before cooking, but keep the dirt on till then, to prevent faster spoilage.
• Everything in this week’s harvest wants to be stored in your fridge except for onions, potatoes, and green tomatoes. Seal all your leafy greens up in a bag or container to retain moisture for longest storage life.
• Roots will store best when severed from their tops, and stored separately (remember the tops of all these roots are edible, too!)

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

Regular Share

Regular Share – top row left to right: Collards, 2 mini cabbage, arugula, winona blueberries,  (2nd row) mixed onions, green tomatoes, red new potatoes, and sungold cherry tomatoes.

Large Share

Large shares – top row left to right: Curly kale, 1 cabbage, arugula, winona blueberries,  (2nd row) Chard, mixed onions, green tomatoes, red new potatoes.

Mini Share

Mini shares – top row left to right: Lacinato kale, mini cabbage, arugula, winona blueberries,  (2nd row) mixed onions, green tomatoes, red new potatoes.

Flower Shares!

This week everyone received  zinnias, basil, sunflowers, strawflower, cosmos, trailing amaranth, and rudbeckia. I had a few dill, veronica, nigella pods, and yarrow to spread around but those are all just about done. I hope you love the color scheme you received this week!