Full Share
Cucumbers – 2 each

Summer Squash – 1 pound

Hot Peppers – take 2 if you would like

Sweet Peppers – 3

Basil – 1 bunch – Walking around the garden I thought we had really over done it with Thai Basil.  When the basil was harvested we noticed the aroma of cinnamon and remembered that we had planted both Thai Basil and Cinnamon Basil.  They look very much alike except that the Thai Basil has green stems and the Cinnamon Basil has purple stems.  They are all mixed up in the crates so if you have a preference, look at the stems.

Walla Walla Onions – 2

Slicing Tomatoes – 3 pounds

Cherry Tomatoes – 1 basket

Bright Lights Swiss Chard – 1 bunch

Tomatillos – 1 pound

Fruit Share
1 bag of Clapp Pears and Peaches together
1 basket of Apricots

This week’s newsletter includes recipes for Tzatziki and Stuffed Summer Squash.

Carnegie Hill Newsletter – Week 10

Thank you for all of your comments about the vegetables and fruit this season.  It has certainly been a very hot and dry year-the complete opposite of last season.  The taste of the bulky vegetables like the cukes, summer squash, tomatoes and peppers always seems better to me in the really hot, dry seasons.  It seems that the sunshine enhances the vegetable flavors.  They do tend to spoil a bit more rapidly, maybe again, they are so packed with flavor that they just can’t stand it. The greens just don’t do as well.  They like the cold and rain. This week there is Summer Spinach which is such a hearty green being able to produce even in the middle of summer.

Looking ahead to the fruit varieties that may come your way in the Fruit Share also depends on what the orchards that we work with are able to harvest.  This week we took all of the Red Clapp pear harvest.  They were just coming into the yard with the totes of pears when we arrived to pick them up. Can not get much fresher than that.

This is a really good Peach season and I will see if the Apricots are ripening.  We are  hoping to possibly have Black berries for your shares but we will see with the heat and drought.  It takes a toll on berries.  We don’t send Red Raspberries any longer because they do not hold long enough for us to pick them one afternoon and have members pick them up the next.

Again, thanks.  This time of year we are pushing ourselves one day to the next and it is good to hear positive feedback from members.  Deborah

If you are planning on attending the Farm Work Visit on Saturday, August 21st and are seeking a ride or a contributing passenger, please post requests below.

Dear CSA Member,

Summer vegetables are at their best flavor and fill your share.  The tomatoes continue to ripen, the peppers are sweet and the basil makes the perfect addition.  Jen has just finished the Stoneledge Farm Summer Newsletter that highlights all of the different tomatoes that we grew this year.

There are a couple of different varieties of sweet peppers that will be coming your way over the season.  Two are heirloom varieties: Lipstick (small, pointed, sweet) and the Hungary Round (short, flat and shamrock shaped when cut cross wise).  There are also the long time favorites: Liliac (purple), Biscayne (long yellow), Diablo (long, green). 

The Edamame is also finally filled out and that will be in your share.  Just pluck the soy beans from the stem, rinse, steam for 3-5 minutes, salt if you like.  Pop the seeds from the pod and enjoy.

We have a farm work visit planned for August 21.  Please mark your calendar if you plan on attending. 

This week is also Coffee Share delivery week.  I just got word that work on the vivero at the women’s coffee cooperative in Guatemala has begun.  Proceeds from coffee sales last season funded the vivero or tree nursery that the women’s cooperative badly needed.

What a beautiful summer share.  Enjoy.
Deborah, for everyone at Stoneledge Farm