In the share this week:
1.5 lbs tomatoes
1 lb eggplant
1 bunch carrots
1 lb yellow onions
1 head garlic
1 pepper mix bag
1 bunch basil
Thoughts from Farmer Anna:
The summer crops are really here this week! It always feels like a long wait for those first tomatoes and peppers, and then all of the sudden everything is ready and producing like crazy! The veggies in the share this week feel easy to use, so I don't think you'll have much trouble deciding what to do with them. If you need a little inspiration for the eggplant, check out this recipe for fried eggplant that also includes tomatoes, peppers and garlic. The exact amounts called for in the recipe aren't totally binding and I think you could use all of the peppers in your pepper mix (green bell, banana, poblano and jalapeno - depending on how spicy you like things).
https://www.themediterraneandish.com/fried-eggplant-recipe-with-green-peppers-tomato/
We just finished processing our cured garlic and it looks very nice so we are happy to be sharing that with you this week. The flavor of farm or homegrown garlic is way different than what you can get in the store, which is typically just a single variety. The varieties we have this year include two hardnecks (music and chesnook red) and one softneck variety, the name of which I'm not sure because it was a replacement for another type of hardneck garlic that I had ordered :) Now that the garlic is out of our little drying greenhouse, we are busily getting the main season storage onion crop harvested and laid out for drying. We made good progress yesterday and I have a bit more to get in today before the possible rain this afternoon.
Speaking of rain, we finally got a good drenching rain last week and the farm is so thankful! We absolutely needed that recharge so the plants could continue growing. We have definitely seen the impacts of low rain totals over the last month and you'll notice that some of the carrots in your share this week are rather small. The quality of the salad mix lettuce has also been impacted, but we plant enough of it that it hasn't been too much of an issue in limited our harvest capacity yet. It looks like we should be getting a bit more rain this week, so hopefully we'll be getting into a new weather pattern with more frequent rains.
Hope you all have a great week!