Share #11 August 12th & 14th

Crop List: Cosmic Mix, Collards, Napa Cabbage, Green Beans, Pickling Cucumbers, Summer Squash, Tomatoes, Sunflowers, Basil, maybe Sugar Snap Peas, and/or Head Lettuce,

So much goodness is pouring out of the garden right now! The crew is hustling everyday just to keep up with harvesting produce. It has been a wonderful growing year. The temperatures have stayed consistently warm, making life easier on the plants.
We are incredibly grateful for our irrigation system. We are still watering regularly with gravity fed snow melt, straight out of the Tetons. Clean water is precious, and one of the reasons we think our produce tastes so great.
I hope you've been enjoying the sunflowers. It's fun to grow a crop just to bring people joy. No pressure to make sure it tastes good...or to give you a recipe! It's just a bright sunny flower to brighten your home. Sunflowers astound me. And they remind me how cool my life is. I get to go out into the field and gather up beautiful things to bring to people! I have to pinch myself to really believe this is my job.  Sunflowers are gorgeous, showy, statement flowers while being basic, common and chunky at the same time. For me, they are a flower of happiness and brightness. My mama-in-law gave me a great book called the "Secret Life of Sunflowers" by Marta Molnar. It was about Van Gogh and his paintings of them. People questioned why he would waste his time on such a common flower...which I'm guessing grew like a weed where he was. I now have a print of "Sunflowers" next to my computer!
Here are 2 quotes I loved from the book...Both quotes sum up my favorite flowers and some of my favorite ideals in people!
"Sunflowers are adaptable, for one. Seventy species. You plant them somewhere and they'll figure out how to grow... They're scrappy as hell, but they always look like stars."
"Fear no storms, turn in gratitude toward the light"​
I hope the flowers I harvested go out into the world and bring joy and brightness to those who receive them!

How to help your sunflowers last in a vase
Strip off any leaves, stems or buds that will be in the water. It helps keep the water clean if there is not plant matter rotting in it.
Cut the flowers so the head of the flower rests on the edge of the vase. Sunflowers are heavy and if they are propped up by the edge of the vase you won't see the effects of gravity as quickly! Gravity really gets us all in the end!
Keep the water fresh! Change it every 3 days or sooner if it gets murky looking.


Lunch on the Farm this week: Summer Pasta Sauté' and Curried Zucchini Soup
Recipe Ideas: Green Beans with Tomatoes and Herbs; Basil Beans; Tomatoes, Basil and Beans; Steamed Collard Greens with Miso-Tamari Seasoning; ​Napa Cabbage Salad

Recipes

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: Stew Meat, Sirloin Tip Roast, Round Roast, Flat Iron Roast and Beef Fat
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.
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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 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]