In this week’s box you will find:
In the Field
July was a rather dry month this year, but we have had some good rain in the past week, which has made the vegetable fields very happy and made the turkeys and chickens a little damp and muddy.
In this week’s box you will find:
In the Field
Photo by Lisa Beth Anderson
For some reason, I always assume that people sign up for the CSA mostly because of the allure of home grown tomatoes. Almost everyone loves a good, vine-ripened, garden-fresh tomato, and a person can really only get such a tomato from a local farm or a backyard garden. This is one fruit/vegetable whose grocery-store counterpart can be so disappointing as to put a person off of tomatoes forever. In fact, Nick, who grew up in Alaska, had never had a home-grown tomato until he moved to the lower 48 after high school; consequentially, he thought he hated tomatoes his whole life. Of course, he changed his mind when he met the kinds of tomatoes that the Midwest has to offer. No fruit is as engrained in the ethos of the Midwestern truck farmer as the tomato.
In this week’s box you will find:
In the Field
This Saturday was a busy one for us all. Nick’s dad came with me to the Glenview Farmers Market, where we had a great time, enjoyed a lot of coffee, and sold many, many onions. You can see that the main components of our stand are: 1. The big orange tent, 2. The big brown van, and 3. The colorful array of veggies. We learned how to set up a gorgeous display from Sarah Post, the California farmer who taught us everything we know about selling beautiful vegetables. Meanwhile, Susie held down the fort at home and kept little Ray entertained all morning.
Midnight Sun Farm 