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Crop List: Cosmic Mix, Green Onions, Collards, Bok Choy, Turnips, Garlic Curls and maybe Radishes This newsletter is going to be short and sweet! I have time blocked out on Monday afternoons to write the newsletter. Truth be told...I got sick. The kind of sick that demands sleeping from 1-4:30, getting up to drink water, sleeping on the couch from 5-8 and then just going to bed for the night. It is now Tuesday morning and we are on a delivery day! I need to get out to the farm to do the delivery things. I feel much better...I just need to rebuild my strength and get some food in me. I'm in recovery mode! We've had a week straight of truly summer weather. The garden is growing so fast right now. The sunflowers have jumped in size, the peas are starting to tease us and there are hints of red things ripening (tomatoes!!) in the greenhouses! We wish you a fun and safe 4th of July weekend! Lunch on the Farm this week: Roasted Garlic Curl Hummus on Build your own sandwiches with sliced bok choy, turnips and radish. Recipe Ideas: Collard wraps, but saute green onions, turnips and bok choy for the inside; Easy Collards; Roasted Hakuri Turnips with Israeli Couscous Salad; Tangy Turnips We have lots of extra goodies available at your pick up. If you want something specific, please email me and I will make sure it is in the cooler, reserved just for you. Dinner just got easier!
The coolers at your site are stocked with a selection of Lifeline Cheese and Cosmic Apple Pork and Beef (listed below). I don't send every cut every week, they simply won't all fit! Pork Available: Grandpa's Sausage, Breakfast Sausage, Pork Chops, Shoulder Roast, Spare Ribs, Boneless Loin Roast, Hock, Leaf Fat Tenderloin and Back Fat Beef Available: Tenderloin, Rib Eye, Sirloin Steak, Patties, Stew Meat, Sirloin Tip Roast, Round Roast, Flat Iron Roast, Beef Fat and Liver Hunters and Huntresses: We have pork fat for your wild game sausage making. Let me know if you want to order any and I can send it to your pick up location. WASH YOUR VEGGIES!! 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 10% off at the Farmer's Markets! The Driggs Market: Fridays 9-1 The People's Market: Wednesdays 4-7 Jackson Hole Farmer's Market: Saturdays 8-12 Questions? Comments? Recipes to share? [email protected]
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Crop List: Cosmic Mix, Butterhead Lettuce, Bok Choy, Swiss Chard, Turnips, Garlic Curls and Sage The Summer Solstice was on 6/20. I love this day every year. The sun is way up North arching over the Tetons, and the moon is rising by Taylor Mountain...at least from where we sit. The sun and moon pushed to their furthest points and now headed for a swap to completed at the Winter Solstice. "Oh, Radiant and Glorious Sun! Illuminate my body, mind, soul. Show us how to bloom where we are planted. Bless our seeds of growth and change. Help us to be whole, and we will rise like you in full Glory. Welcome Sun into your heart to ignite Inner Light. Shine on! The world needs your unique, radiant Beauty." ~Mahada Thomas I loved this Solstice prayer when I read it. The idea of each of us rising every day in full Glory. Our uniqueness and beauty truly being celebrated. We are grateful to each of you unique beings for supporting our unique vision of a farm. We love growing for you and hope our food helps you to live your best life. We hope it awakens your taste buds and helps you feel fully alive, nourished and loved. Speaking of the sun... I read something else a few years ago that has stuck with me...Food is Light incarnated. Crazy, right? Again...Food is Light incarnated. A big ball of fire millions of miles away is part of the magic involved in growing food. Just mix in a seed, soil, CO2 and some water. Photosynthesis is the sciencey name for it...cells trapping light and growing...into something that can sustain us. Just think about that for a second. Plants grow because of sunlight. Everything we eat starts as a plant at the beginning of the food chain. The thing about "food is light incarnated" that gets me is that the simplest things tend to be the most miraculous. Of course plants need sunshine to grow, basic 8th grade science. I am a being built of light from 93 million miles away?! Mind-blowing. We are eating sunlight, and moving through this world because of it! Doing all the things we think we need to do...but we are really just sacks of cells which were created and are consistently fueled by light. So YES! You are radiant. YOU are radiant sunlight walking around. Let your light shine! Taste the sunshine in your food. Celebrate it! Last week felt like summer! Hot, sunny, biting fly-y. I am thoroughly stoked for those first two notions of summer! But no worries...early spring weather returned Sunday to keep us in check, lest we get in the summer groove too early. We seemed to get through the frost of Monday morning unscathed. Yippee! We'll be back to hot and sunny by the end of the week...maybe the cold weather will have set the flies back a bit! The garden will jump into high action with the heat this week. The growth will be easy to see. We are in full swing with all 3 markets happening, CSA deliveries and WEEDING. Every second we can spare is dedicated to pulling, hoeing, mowing or removing weeds any way we can before they go to seed. 3 BIG CHEERS for our amazing crew who are working so hard to make sure you get your veggies AND the garden gets weeded. Lunch on the Farm this week: Pasta, Grandpa's sausage, Garlic Curls, Swiss Chard, Oregano, Turnips. Later in the week, Tempeh, Rice Noodles, Garlic Curls, Turnips and a soy ginger sauce. Recipe Ideas: Bok Choy, Swiss Chard with Noodles; Swiss Chard Veggie Burgers, Sage Tahini Salad Dressing, Sage Bread Dip Site Host Needed!
We are in need of a site host on Thursdays at the farm! It is a volunteer position and the volunteer receives a 1/2 share for being there! It's a great way to be on the farm and meet amazing members of our community! If you know anyone who would be a good fit, PLEASE send them our way! We have lots of extra goodies available at your pick up. If you want something specific, please email me and I will make sure it is in the cooler, reserved just for you. Dinner just got easier! The coolers at your site are stocked with a selection of Lifeline Cheese and Cosmic Apple Pork and Beef (listed below). I don't send every cut every week, they simply won't all fit! Pork Available: Grandpa's Sausage, Breakfast Sausage, Pork Chops, Shoulder Roast, Spare Ribs, Boneless Loin Roast, Hock, Leaf Fat Tenderloin and Back Fat Beef Available: Tenderloin, Rib Eye, Sirloin Steak, Patties, Stew Meat, Sirloin Tip Roast, Round Roast, Flat Iron Roast, Beef Fat and Liver WASH YOUR VEGGIES!! 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 10% off at the Farmer's Markets! The Driggs Market: Fridays 9-1 The People's Market: Wednesdays 4-7 Jackson Hole Farmer's Market: Saturdays 8-12 (Starts June 28th) Questions? Comments? Recipes to share? [email protected] Crop List: Cosmic Mix, Spinach, Baby Kale, Pea Shoots, Bok Choy, Green Onion, Thyme and maybe Radish Week #3 and the texture of the produce is already changing. The bok choy and the green onions add a little crunch this week, moving us beyond just early season delicate greens. I love the versatility of bok choy, it really takes on the flavor of what you cook it in. Gingery Butter sauce is my favorite! Green onions are here! We don't grow these every year, they take some extra planning and foresight, at a time of year we are trying to not plan and just be done! We plant them in the fall, and some years we are so busy trying to wrap up the farm we neglect to get a garden space mapped out for them. We need to order seed, at a time of year we are not ordering seed! Then we actually go to plant and the planting equipment is usually buried behind, all the equipment we are storing for the winter! It's no small feat when they make it in the ground during October. Please take a moment to smell them before you wash or use them. They smell so sweet and earthy. The pungency really surprised me...enough that I had to share it with you! It's amazing to think about those little onions surviving a Teton winter and already being ready to harvest. I love the image of the garden holding and nurturing onion seeds while winter storms rage above the soil blanketed by snow. Good news! The adventure pigs of last week's newsletter have been staying where they are supposed to be. Things felt much smoother this week without the need to chase pigs! Not good news...but great news for the future! Eggs...we don't have many. I am rotating what sites they go to, so if you see them at your pick up location enjoy them. But it may be only once every 6 weeks that they appear for you. Our flock of layers is very past their prime and not yielding like they used to. We did get a new batch of chicks that are growing and will start laying in mid-October. We'll have lots of eggs right after the CSA ends....whomp, whomp. Timing chicks with the arrival of consistent warm weather, does not give us many eggs in the summer months. Reach out later in the fall, to find out how you can get eggs! Check out our Instagram page! I have been sharing photos of our farm lunches! One of my farm hats is "lunch lady". I cook lunch for our crew 4 days a week, using the same veggies you are getting in your share or the leftovers from markets and CSA deliveries. The meals are simple, nourishing, fresh and made to feed hungry farm workers. Some days I am cooking for 15 people and I never have hours to spend on fussy recipes. These meals are easy to adapt to feeding your family after a long day at work. I always promised myself I'd photo document the meals one season, and this is the year. Lunch on the Farm this week: Burritos with radish, garlic, pea shoots and green onion. Salsa made with our canned salsa and fresh baby garlic. Recipe Ideas: Ants on a log, but on Bok Choy stems! Bok Choy with Gingery Butter Sauce, Green Onion Dip, Lemon Thyme Dressing, Kale-Garlicky Greens (on the Kale/Baby Kale page) or Spinach Dip Site Host Needed!
We are in need of a site host on Thursdays at the farm! It is a volunteer position and the volunteer receives a 1/2 share for being there! It's a great way to be on the farm and meet amazing members of our community! If you know anyone who would be a good fit, PLEASE send them our way! We have lots of extra goodies available at your pick up. If you want something specific, please email me and I will make sure it is in the cooler, reserved just for you. Dinner just got easier! The coolers at your site are stocked with a selection of Lifeline Cheese and Cosmic Apple Pork and Beef (listed below). I don't send every cut every week, they simply won't all fit! Pork Available: Grandpa's Sausage, Breakfast Sausage, Pork Chops, Shoulder Roast, Spare Ribs, Boneless Loin Roast, Hock, Leaf Fat Tenderloin and Back Fat Beef Available: Tenderloin, Rib Eye, Sirloin Steak, Patties, Stew Meat, Sirloin Tip Roast, Brisket, Round Roast, Flat Iron Roast, Beef Fat and Liver WASH YOUR VEGGIES!! 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 10% off at the Farmer's Markets! The Driggs Market: Fridays 9-1 The People's Market: Wednesdays 4-7 (Starts June 18th) Jackson Hole Farmer's Market: Saturdays 8-12 (Starts June28th) Questions? Comments? Recipes to share? [email protected] Crop List: Cosmic Mix, Spicy Mix, Arugula, Baby Garlic, Radish and Oregano Last week was a good one to check off the calendar! I love the satisfaction of getting the first share out the door, but the logistics require more brain power then I want to use sometimes! We pulled it off with a handful of mistakes...which generally came down to me entering data incorrectly when typing. (I apologize if this affected you!) By the end of the week, I think everyone got fresh food!! Thanks to all of you for moving through our system and retrieving your veggies! I hope you enjoyed the first week of fresh eating in the Tetons again! The Driggs market also began last week. The Jackson markets don't start until the 18th. We like the markets starting a bit later, it gives us a chance to work on weeding before we are more focused on harvesting, and we feel like our CSA member (you!) get some special treats before everything else gets going. The garden is looking great. Many crops (garlic, carrots, sugar snap peas, spinach, kale and chard) have already been weeded once. The tomato plants are already waist high in some places! Great things are growing for you! Our sweet sow, Waddles, had 10 piglets at the end of April. At about 7 weeks old (last week) they began escaping the pen where their mom was and "exploring". Exploring really means digging in pig language. On Thursday they got into the back end of a greenhouse and dug some plants up. We replanted and apologized to the tomatoes! On Friday we scrambled to get them moved to their new pen with a better electric fence system. We were extremely concerned about potential "exploration" of the garden! After Friday's relocation, they decided they didn't care about being shocked by the fence and made a game out of running to get back with mom. Even our dog (an excellent pig chaser) got bored of chasing them. Saturday morning Jed and I rebuilt the fence with metal hog panels to keep them in. They were finally stuck! Or so we thought. On Monday morning they dug out the back side of their new home. 23 years of raising pigs...and no litter has worked us like these ones. When they ran back to mom on Monday...she was NOT happy to see them. She was flipping them away from her with her nose and wanted them out of her area...all my guilt of separating them was instantly gone. The pen was refortified and the pigs were relocated...again. Jed thinks they might just like riding in the trailer! HA! As of now...they are where they are supposed to be. As soon as we can trust them with the electric fence they can have a couple acres of gorgeous green pasture to dig up and forage in. Their job is to turn the pasture so we can plant it back to garden. For the most part pigs are a wonderful part of the garden to pasture rotation cycle on the farm...we'll see if this litter redeems themselves. Starting the CSA and pig chasing has occupied our time on the farm this past week! Both hard things with incredibly promising long term results! Lunch on the Farm this week: Sorrel butter pasta Recipe Ideas: Blistered Radish with Parsley, Greek Vinaigrette (there are so many yummy oregano dressings on our oregano page), Arugula with grilled Grandpa's sausage, Feta, olives and oregano dressing. Site Host Needed!
We are in need of a site host on Thursdays at the farm! It is a volunteer position and the volunteer receives a 1/2 share for being there! It's a great way to be on the farm and meet amazing members of our community! If you know anyone who would be a good fit, PLEASE send them our way! We have lots of extra goodies available at your pick up. If you want something specific, please email me and I will make sure it is in the cooler, reserved just for you. Dinner just got easier! The coolers at your site are stocked with a selection of Lifeline Cheese and Cosmic Apple Pork and Beef (listed below). I don't send every cut every week, they simply won't all fit! Pork Available: Grandpa's Sausage, Breakfast Sausage, Pork Chops, Shoulder Roast, Spare Ribs, Boneless Loin Roast, Hock, Leaf Fat Tenderloin and Back Fat Beef Available: Tenderloin, Rib Eye, Sirloin Steak, Patties, Stew Meat, Sirloin Tip Roast, Brisket, Round Roast, Flat Iron Roast, Beef Fat and Liver WASH YOUR VEGGIES!! 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 10% off at the Farmer's Markets! The Driggs Market: Fridays 9-1 The People's Market: Wednesdays 4-7 (Starts June 18th) Jackson Hole Farmer's Market: Saturdays 8-12 (Starts June28th) Questions? Comments? Recipes to share? [email protected] Crop List: Spicy Mix, Pea Shoots, Sorrel and Chives I'm going to say it...This is the earliest we have EVER started shares, in 29 years. We have started the first week of June before...but never on the 3rd! What a spring! Welcome! We hope this season nourishes you. We are honored to be growing your veggies. We have so many goodies already taking root in the garden. We are happy to provide you with the best tasting, freshest organic produce around. And... we hope we save you a few trips to the grocery store! It was a tough call for us to start the shares. We generally like to have a couple more items in the first share then we do this week. The Spicy Mix was ready for harvest before everything else. If we didn't harvest it this week it would have gone to waste. So our options were limited. Start the shares or till in the spicy mix. Since we are not fans of wasting things we grow, we decided to start. Consider this week your Appetizer Course on the summer menu! Next week will definitely be a Salad Course! As all of our returning CSA members can assure you, the shares will continue to get bigger each week. It feels wonderful to be back in the sunshine without a down jacket on. The air in Victor smells so fragrant right now. Lilacs and Serviceberry are all in bloom and it is a reminder of how sweet life is. The poppies, apple trees and peonies are getting ready to burst. The hills are as green as they get. During spring the hope of abundance is palpable. The garden is full of plants that are less then 3" tall. Each full of promise of a meal to come, or a sunflower to enjoy. Spring is the time to sow the seeds you want to harvest for the year. Literally and figuratively. Dream big. Plant your seeds with intention. May your year be full of abundance and nourishment! Lunch on the Farm this week: Sorrel Rice Noodles Recipe Ideas: Sorrel Cream Sauce (a surefire way to fall in love with sorrel), Fresh Chive Dressing, Pea Shoots chopped and added to a burger or burrito. Help us get Fresh Veggies to our Neighbors!! Cosmic Apple donates 4 shares to the Teton Valley Food Pantry every year. Our amazing community raises more funds for more shares. We are currently at 13 shares! Can you pitch in to help us raise that number? Access to healthy food helps folks get back on their feet quicker. It really lifts our whole community up when everyone is nourished. Any amount helps! We pool the money for shares! 3 easy ways to donate. 1. Bring a check or cash to your pick up. Let the site host know what it's for! 2. Donate online with the link below! 3. Contact the Pantry (Ask for Sue 208-354-1658) and make a donation directly. Just let the Pantry know it's for Cosmic Apple veggies! Site Host Needed! We are in need of a site host on Thursdays at the farm! It is a volunteer position and the volunteer receives a 1/2 share for being there! It's a great way to be on the farm and meet amazing members of our community! If you know anyone who would be a good fit, PLEASE send them our way! We have lots of extra goodies available at your pick up. If you want something specific, please email me and I will make sure it is in the cooler, reserved just for you. Dinner just got easier!
The coolers at your site are stocked with a selection of Lifeline Cheese and Cosmic Apple Pork and Beef (listed below). I don't send every cut every week, they simply won't all fit! Pork Available: Grandpa's Sausage, Breakfast Sausage, Pork Chops, Shoulder Roast, Spare Ribs, Boneless Loin Roast, Hock Leaf Fat Tenderloin and Back Fat Beef Available: Tenderloin, Rib Eye, Sirloin Steak, Patties, Stew Meat, Sirloin Tip Roast, Brisket, Round Roast, Flat Iron Roast, Beef Fat and Liver WASH YOUR VEGGIES!! 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 10% off at the Farmer's Markets! The Driggs Market: Fridays 9-1 (Starts June 6th) The People's Market: Wednesdays 4-7 (Starts June 18th) Jackson Hole Farmer's Market: Saturdays 8-12 (Starts June28th) Questions? Comments? Recipes to share? [email protected] |
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