Share Notes June 19th, 2025
Welcome to the first week of the Summer CSA season! This week is a soft-start to the season, delivering just to our DFW area delivery locations. As the crops come in with greater abundance, we’ll be delivering to every one of our CSA members really soon. I’ll tell ya’ -and I hesitate to even speak these words out loud in case the weather gods send a drought- the garden could really use a break from all this rain. When conditions are dry, you can add water by irrigation, but when conditions are too rainy, there’s nothing you can do to get rid of the surplus water. Pray for just the right amount of rain, y’all! A quarter to a half inch per week is the sweet spot. Our plants will be so happy if we can just turn this faucet off.
Here’s your vegetable line-up this week:
- Kale/Collard – Bagged Curly kale for all the shares. This is great sauteed, but also fantastic raw. I love a good massaged kale salad and this variety is perfect for that. Or, mixed with our white kennebec potatoes, this all makes a wonderful Potato salad!
- Potatoes – White kennebec this week. These are excellent for 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 small heads of garlic. Just like the onions, they did not like the boggy conditions they were growing in throughout April and May. Some years we have such amazing and beautiful garlic. Welp, better luck next year! We’ll enjoy what little we got for as long as we have it.
- Sungolds – Loads for everyone! These bursts of sunshine are a customer fave that are long anticipated every year and we’re so excited they’re here! The best cherry tomato around, super sweet and delicious for snacking.
- Cabbages – nice cabbages for everyone. We’ll be turning ours into fantastic Thai peanut chicken salad this week.
- Green Tomatoes – Make a green tomato salsa, a tomato chutney, or fry them up southern style!
- Winona Fruit!! Blueberries (and plums for the Large shares, too!) – 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. Although the owner, Mr. Sattler, explained to me that these blueberries have had nothing sprayed on them at all this year, so you can consider them squeaky clean!
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: Blueberries, Sungolds, garlic, bagged curly kale, (2nd row) cabbages, potatoes, onions, green tomatoes.
Large Share
Large shares – top row left to right: Blueberries, Plums, Sungolds, garlic, bagged curly kale, (2nd row) cabbages, potatoes, onions, green tomatoes.
Mini Share
Mini shares – top row left to right: Bagged curly kale, blueberries, Sungolds, garlic, (2nd row) cabbages, potatoes, onions, green tomatoes.
Flower Shares!
This week we gave out loads of zinnias, basil, dill, rudbeckia, cosmos, trailing amaranth, sunflowers, and giant marigolds. I had the very first GORGEOUS Lisianthus ready this week, as well as nearing the last of the strawflower and veronica, to spread around but those are all just about done. I hope you love the color scheme you received this week!