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Dear Friends of the farm,
This is week 4 of 18 weeks of CSA. Plants are starting to ramp up production, field tomatoes are bushing out, and it’s finally starting to feel like summer around here. This week you will be receiving onions, garlic, green kohlrabi, Yukon Gold potatoes, summer squash, snow peas, pickling and slicing cucumbers and red Romaine lettuce. Onions and potatoes have finally arrived, and we were very ready for them around here. We love the red Romaine lettuce in Cesar salad. A little salad can really help get those digestive juices flowing.
New potatoes have such a tender skin that sometimes they can turn brown where the skin has rubbed off. They’re not bad if they’re brown! These newbies are tender and delicious any which way: Sauteed, pan fried, air fried, boiled, baked/roasted, or grated into latkes (and you can add zucchini into latkes as well!)
Kohlrabi is well known in Europe but not so much in North America. It’s an awesome cultivar of wild cabbage. You can prepare it both cooked and raw. It’s crunchy and satisfying as a replacement for cabbage in coleslaw. For coleslaw peel and then grate. Dice and steam it for a very nourishing side dish. Members of the cabbage family have much to offer us, containing many vitamins and minerals.
Produce Payment: Half of all remaining fees on your account are now due unless you have made other arrangements with the office. Allow one to two weeks for us to process your checks. You will still get credit for them arriving on time. We will do our best to get them processed as soon as possible.
Thank you to all our Tuesday members for rearranging your schedules for a Monday pick-up due to the Fourth of July. We appreciate your cooperation!
We have been loving your social media posts 
It gives us a lot of pleasure to see beautiful displays of your shares and what you’re making with them.
Egg cartons & olive oil bottles: Croft Family Farm would like to have egg cartons returned to them. Healthy Harvests will re-use all returned bottles. Please run them through your dishwasher or handwash them prior to returning. Egg cartons and clean olive oil bottles can be brought to your distribution center. Let’s help them out with this and return those bottles & cartons!
Shaved Kohlrabi with Mint, Tahini, and Pistachios
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Ingredients
4 Servings
¼ cup tahini
1 tablespoon honey
4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, divided
Kosher salt
½ cup coarsely chopped mint
1 tablespoon finely chopped chives
⅓ cup finely chopped toasted pistachios
3 medium kohlrabies (about 2 pounds total), peeled, thinly sliced on a mandolin or with a veggie peeler
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
Preparation
Step 1
Mix tahini, honey, 2 Tbsp. oil, and 1 Tbsp. lemon juice in a small bowl to combine; season with salt.
Step 2
Toss mint, chives, pistachios, and remaining 2 Tbsp. oil in a large bowl; season with salt. Add kohlrabi, vinegar, lemon zest, and remaining 1 Tbsp. lemon juice; toss to combine. Taste and season with more salt if needed.
Step 3
Spread tahini mixture over plates; top with kohlrabi salad.
We hope you have a beautiful and delicious week, friends! Keep an eye out for all the linden trees that are in full bloom…
Cheers to summer! Wishing you all a wonderful and safe July 4th! Happy Birthday, America!
Kyle, Sam, Jerry, Jacquie, Linda, and The Crew
