Dear Farm Friends,
Our first week was fresh and delicious but this week is even better! What’s in your bag this week? Garlic, garlic scapes, squash, (either zucchini, round zucchini, or yellow squash), sugar snap peas, Hakurei turnips, and green butter head lettuce. The scapes are the tops of the garlic that if allowed would become a flower. When we remove them from the still-growing garlic plants the garlic bulbs get larger. It’s a win-win harvesting them. They’re so delicious and removing them helps our garlic get big! Garlic scapes are a fleeting favorite of many. They are extremely versatile. They can be grilled or roasted and eaten as a vegetable, minced and added to salads & eggs (like green onion) and are fabulous chopped up and added to any stir fry. You can also add them into pesto or into hummus. Hakurei turnips can be shaved or sliced, dressed with oil and vinegar then eaten raw, steamed, or cooked any which way. We love to simply dice all these new veggies and throw them in together in a stir fry with salad on the side. The turnip greens are easily revived in cold water and then can be steamed, or rubbed with oil and salt, then air fried or baked into chips.
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   Fruit:   We are expecting to start getting fruit in July with one of many cherry varieties!
   Honey: Those of you who ordered monthly and bimonthly will be getting it this week.
Zelle payments: We still have a few Zelle payments that we haven’t been able to place with an account. One was made in May for $215.00 and the other was made last week for $200.00. Please, if this could be you, call the office! You must let us know if the payment is coming from a name that is not attached to your account so we can add that name to your account.
Please make sure any emails from jacquie@monroefarm.com are not going to your spam folder. We have one new member who we only have an email address for. We need your other contact information. If this is you, call the office or email us back!
What’s in your bag and how to use it all: Remember, your bag may seem small now, but it will keep growing and growing. Soon there will be extras on the side to grab such as tomatoes and melons. Cucumbers are going to be coming on in full force very shortly. It looks like we are going to have an awesome carrot year. Certain crops could be delayed due to all the moisture we’ve been getting paired with how unusually cool it has been. This week will be the first time we’ve gotten into the 90’s. This lack of heat is rare for us being in the middle of June already. We need high temps for warmth loving crops like peppers, melons, and tomatoes. Please remember that Linda in the office won’t be able to see into the future and tell you exactly what you’re going to be getting next week or the next. If you’re at a loss with what to do with certain vegetables, ask your distribution center and remember there are thousands of recipes online. Google can be helpful when seeking a recipe. Consider ordering our CSA cookbook that has tons of community sourced recipes for each veggie you may encounter.
Veggie Wash
Juice from a whole lemon
2 Tablespoons Vinegar
1 cup water
1 spray bottle & scrub brush
Mix and spray onto surface of veggies. Let sit for a minute or two. (Longer if trying to remove wax from store bought veg) Scrub lightly on soft skinned veggies and more aggressively on hard skinned produce like winter squash, cucumbers, root veggies and melons. Leafy greens simply should be sprayed, let sit 5 min. then rinsed.
Why couldn’t the turnip go to the party?  It was grounded.Â
With gratitude,
Kyle, Sam, Jacquie, Jerry, Linda, & The Crew
