Share #10 August 7th & 9th

Crop List: Cosmic Mix, Swiss Chard, Tomatoes, Radish, Garlic, Sugar Snap Peas, Lemon Basil, New Red Potatoes, Maybe Summer Squash, Cucumbers, and Sunflowers

Generally on Mondays I come home from the farm around 1 to work on the newsletter. It is 8:30 and I am finally getting my hands on the computer. We had our annual organic inspection today, so Jed was in the office for 6 hours with the inspector combing over all of our records. Whew. The inspection went well and it is always a satisfactory thing to check off the list for the year.
On Sunday we got 10 out of 14 rows of garlic dug out of the ground, knocked off the extra dirt and put into piles. We will dig the other 4 rows, collect it all and get it into the drying shed on Tuesday afternoon. Instead of moving some of it to the shed, Jed decided we should give a bit out in the shares this week! During the inspection as we were tracing seed to harvest we figured out we planted about 9600 garlic cloves last year! Which translated to 9600 garlic bulbs we are about to finish harvesting! ...minus what you got earlier!
I'm going to keep it short this week since it is so late and I am feeling like it is August!!! I included some garlic harvest photos to make up for it! I think August might be latin for "tired farmers".

Workshare Lunch this week: Zucchini cakes with Tomato Vinegar sauce
Farm family dinner (or breakfast, or lunch!): Grilled Steak with Chard, Tomato and Balsamic Vinegar Reduction

Can you dig it?! The question of the day! Luckily we use a potato digger to help us get the garlic out. Less digging for us, more for the tractor! It also helps keep the kids entertained...mud puddles help too.

Reign and Dagan ride on the digger and remove large clumps of weeds and soil to prevent the digger from clogging.

Done for the day! Thanks to all the folks who helped!!! Especially our awesome employees who worked on one of their days off!!!

Workshare Lunch this week: Zucchini cakes with Tomato Vinegar sauce
Farm family dinner (or breakfast, or lunch!): Grilled Steak with Chard, Tomato and Balsamic Vinegar Reduction

Recipes

The coolers at your site are stocked with a selection of the beef and pork listed below. If you know you want something, please email me or tell your site host and I will make sure it is in the cooler, reserved for you. I don't send every cut every week, they simply won't all fit!
Beef Available: Tenderloin, New York Steak, Sirloin Steak, Sirloin Tip Roast, Bottom Round Roast, Liver, Ground Beef, Patties and Heart
​Pork Available: Pork Chops, Shoulder Roast, Shank, Spare Ribs, Breakfast Sausage, Chorizo, Breakfast Sausage, Grandpa Restuccia's Sausage, Neck Bones, Fat and Heads

WASH YOUR VEGGIES!!
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Bring Bags to pick-ups!

If you can't make it to pick up your veggies, send a friend!
Missed shares are forfeited for the week. 
Members get 20% off at the Farmer's Markets!
The People's Market: Wednesdays 4-7
The Driggs Market: Fridays 9-1
Jackson Saturday Market: Saturdays 8-12
Questions? Comments? recipes to share? dale@cosmicapple.com