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’ll be receiving purple 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 method.  They are going to be Rainier cherries, a wonderful white with a blush of pink.  Yum.  

We’d like 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 by the rows of garlic with our helpful harvester which lays the bulbs of garlic on prime of the soil.  We then come by with trays and gather all of the garlic.  This garlic lasts for the remainder of summer season CSA and all through winter CSA, too.  We’d be honored if you happen to would come out and assist us gather the garlic into trays out within the subject.  We then make stacks of the trays all through the sphere and are available choose them up with our tractor.  It is a tremendous child pleasant job, and we welcome your family and friends members.  Dad and mom, you’ll be 100% answerable for holding your children secure and away from all vehicles, tractors, any tools, and volunteers carrying trays.  Deliver your complete crew and make a morning of it!  Make certain to put on lengthy sleeves and pants, a hat, sun shades, deliver numerous 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 dwelling after which wash your palms completely earlier than coming to the farm.  We develop a very scrumptious heirloom number of exhausting neck, porcelain garlic.  The bonus is which you could take dwelling garlic seconds!  Come out and assist us put the unity in Neighborhood Supported Agriculture. You do not want to contact the workplace if you happen to can be a part of us. Simply present up! The extra the merrier!

Flower bouquets out there!  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 presently ample on our farm.  We select what includes every bouquet.  We are going to invoice your account accordingly.

Muskmelon:  Many folks aren’t conscious of the distinction between muskmelon and cantaloupe.  There’s truly a large distinction!  Musk melon has an identical 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 have 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 regularly discover fossilized mollusks within the rocks right here! Musk melon has the identical netting as their cousin cantaloupe besides with ridges that run from prime to backside.  Trace:  They’re greatest eaten at room temperature.  In case you like them chilled, lower them open and allow them to sit for ten minutes.  Like a high-quality wine, they should breathe to boost their taste.

Betty Jo’s Fast Scoop Melon Trick

-Wash your melon properly

-Reduce 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 model and put a toothpick in every scoop on a platter with or with out prosciutto)

-Refrigerate

-Take pleasure in at your leisure

The solar goes down lengthy and purple. All of the magic names of the valley unrolled – Manteca, Madera, all the remaining. Quickly it received nightfall, a grapy nightfall, a purple nightfall over tangerine groves and lengthy melon subject; the solar the colour of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy purple, 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