Share Notes, June 5, 2025

Here’s your vegetable line-up:

• Lettuce – Pretty much the last of it! Are you relieved? We’ve been overloaded in our kitchen, too, but I know I’ll be wishing for lettuce again in a few weeks! All good things come to an end.
• Radishes – Red Rover for the Large shares, and French Breakfast for the regular shares
• Turnips – Scarlet Queen for the large shares,  Purple Top for the Regular shares and White Hakurei for the mini shares.  Scarlet queen and purple top, are great cooked southern style: Sautee chopped onion, garlic, and a couple strips of bacon, then the turnip roots in the bacon fat. Once softened, toss in the chopped leaves and sautee. Finish with a dash of tobasco.  Hakurei are a Japanese salad turnip, and you eat them raw. They’re so wonderful!
• Kale/Collard – Bunched Curly kale for the regular shares, Red Russian kale for the mini shares, and collard for the Large shares. Try our Kale Pesto Potato salad this week!
• Potatoes – New Red potatoes. We’ve got a couple other varieties we’re starting to dig, too. For everyone this week.
• Onions – our onion harvest is much smaller than last years. Seasonal conditions dictate so much and our deep winter freezes and wet spring conditions didn’t favor nice huge onions, but what we have is tasty. Our CSA members will get priority (over our farmers market table) to enjoy the majority of the onion harvest.
• Broccoli – For the Large shares
• Cabbages – so excited this crop is finally ready. And it’s looking good, so we should have them for a few weeks! I’m ready to switch up my salad game, and I bet you are, too. Try a chopped Thai peanut salad this week with your cabbage.
• Leeks – enough to go around for everyone! You’ll notice they’re very skinny, and that the onions are likewise quite small- evidence of a wet, weedy year.
• Green Tomatoes – for the Regular shares

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: 2 heads of lettuce, 1 cabbage, French Breakfast radishes, Purple Top turnips, and curly kale,  (2nd row) green tomatoes, 3 onions, 1 super long leek, and red new potatoes.

Large Share

Large shares – top row left to right: 2 heads of lettuce, 2 cabbages, Scarlet Queen turnips, red rover radishes, and collards,  (2nd row) broccoli, 3 onions, 2 super long leeks, and red new potatoes.

Mini Share

Mini shares – top row left to right: 1 head of lettuce, 1 cabbage, hakurei turnips. and Red Russian kale,  (2nd row) 3 onions, 1 leek, and red new potatoes.

Flower Shares!

I didn’t photograph the bouquets, themselves, but here’s a shot of about half of the harvest! The bouquets are just gorgeous this week! And I have lots more flowers coming.

This week everyone received bouquets that are loaded with Nigella pods, Sunflowers, Queen Annes Lace, Didiscus, yarrow, cosmos, foxglove, and zinnias. For greenery we’ve got the lovely wild baptisia.