July seventeenth, 2023 Publication | Monroe Natural Farms

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Expensive Buddies of the farm,

That is week 6 of 18 weeks of CSA.  This week you may be receiving pink potatoes, onions, slicing cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, summer season squash, carrots, garlic, kale, and MUSK MELON!!!!!  Let’s go, July!

Fruit Shares:  One other scrumptious week of cherries is headed your approach.  They are going to be Rainier cherries, a stupendous white with a blush of pink.  Yum.  

We want your assist harvesting garlic on Saturday the 29^th and Sunday the 30^th of July from 8 AM -11 AM.  Come and go as you please!  ***Not this weekend, however the subsequent weekend***First, we roll via the rows of garlic with our helpful harvester which lays the bulbs of garlic on high of the soil.  We then come via with trays and acquire all of the garlic.  This garlic lasts for the remainder of summer season CSA and during winter CSA, too.  We’d be honored should you would come out and assist us acquire the garlic into trays out within the discipline.  We then make stacks of the trays all through the sector and are available decide them up with our tractor.  It is a tremendous child pleasant activity, and we welcome your family and friends members.  Mother and father, you may be 100% liable for protecting your youngsters secure and away from all vehicles, tractors, any tools, and volunteers carrying trays.  Deliver your complete crew and make a morning of it!  Be certain to put on lengthy sleeves and pants, a hat, sun shades, convey a number of water and snacks for the way in which right here and residential. If you wish to use bug spray and sunscreen, please apply them at house after which wash your arms totally earlier than coming to the farm.  We develop a really scrumptious heirloom number of arduous neck, porcelain garlic.  The bonus is which you could take house garlic seconds!  Come out and assist us put the unity in Neighborhood Supported Agriculture. You do not want to contact the workplace should you can be part of us. Simply present up! The extra the merrier!

Flower bouquets obtainable!  A few of you might have seen that we’re dipping our toes into flower manufacturing this 12 months.  We’re actually stoked to be rising blooms.  Better of all, we now have sufficient to supply them to you all.  This week, we can be sending out pattern bouquets to every of our distribution facilities.  There can be bouquet sign-up sheets at every distribution heart, as properly.  The bouquets can be $20 every.  Please add your title to the sign-up sheet if you need to obtain a bouquet made with the flowers at the moment plentiful on our farm.  We select what includes every bouquet.  We’ll invoice your account accordingly.

Muskmelon:  Many folks aren’t conscious of the distinction between muskmelon and cantaloupe.  There may be really a massive distinction!  Musk melon has the same taste to cantaloupe, however they’re stronger and sweeter with a barely “musky” style.  The upper the sugar content material, the earlier the melon must 

be eaten.   Because of this, you don’t see them on grocery retailer cabinets.  Muskmelon had been initially grown in Egypt alongside the Nile River.  They love sandy soil, scorching days, cool nights and a great deal of water.  Our farm could be very sandy, and we frequently discover fossilized mollusks within the rocks right here! Musk melon has the identical netting as their cousin cantaloupe besides with ridges that run from high to backside.  Trace:  They’re finest eaten at room temperature.  If you happen to like them chilled, minimize them open and allow them to sit for ten minutes.  Like a high quality wine, they should breathe to reinforce their taste.

Betty Jo’s Fast Scoop Melon Trick

-Wash your melon properly

-Lower your melon in half and take away all seeds (don’t have a compost? Scatter them for the birds!)

-Seize a big spoon or an ice cream scoop

-Scoop out melon flesh right into a mason jar or storage container, safe lid onto jar or container

 (You may get actually cute with this and use a tiny scoop for little fingers to seize, or current them tapas fashion and put a toothpick in every scoop on a platter with or with out prosciutto)

-Refrigerate

-Get pleasure from at your leisure

The solar goes down lengthy and pink. All of the magic names of the valley unrolled – Manteca, Madera, all the remaining. Quickly it bought nightfall, a grapy nightfall, a purple nightfall over tangerine groves and lengthy melon discipline; the solar the colour of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy pink, the fields the colour of affection and Spanish mysteries. I caught my head out the window and took deep breaths of the aromatic air. It was probably the most lovely of all moments.

–Jack Kerouac

Thanks for being right here with us!

Kyle, Sam, Jerry, Jacquie, Linda, and The Crew