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Basket contents: Cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, melon, choice of cabbage or tomatilloes, broccoli, lettuce, basil, beans Recipe of the week: Chunky Tomatillo Salsa As you can see, the summer crops have exploded!  Despite our complaints about the cool, wet spring, it seems that it has become a very productive season for us.  I hope you’re not getting sick of the cherry tomatoes- really, I wanted to give you less this week, but the production doubled behind our backs!  As the…

Basket contents: Broccoli, kohlrabi, zucchinis, cucumbers, melon, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, choice of beets or potatoes, choice of eggplant or pepper, kale Recipe of the week: Curried Potato Kale Galette This week I want to introduce you to a close family of friends- the Brassicas!  You have already met on several occasions, but I think it’s worthwhile to take the time to get to know them just a little better, as they have been, and will continue to be a prominent…

Basket contents: Cabbage, carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, green pepper, lettuce, melon, onions or eggplant, tomatoes, zucchinis Recipe of the week: Cucumber Smoothie This week, we bring you news from the four-legged part of our farm: our calves!  Our 8 lovely calves live in the pasture just in front of our house, so we can admire them each day!  We purchase the calves when they are 3-5 weeks old from neighbouring dairy farms.  On a dairy farm, the male calves are…

Basket Contents: New potatoes, carrots, kohlrabi, pac choi, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, beans, fennel, cucumbers, cilantro Recipe of the week: Apple Fennel Salad August is upon us!  Probably for some of us that means construction holidays, fewer mosquitoes, cooler nights, or a whole slew of other things.  For us on the farm, it’s when we start looking ahead, even as this season is in full swing, to next year’s production plan.  This is the time of year when we begin to…