First of all I want to thank everyone who came out to the farm to help plant garlic. I felt it was a wonderful time and wish more of you could have enjoyed it with us. Since I realize you all can’t, I thought I would put together a photo montage of the event to show you what you missed:
Here are some of the tomatoes that survived the two frosts. They were delicious!
We had some wonderful smokey blue cheese from CheeseShare that we put on the tomatoes. Yum!
With all the broccoli last week we had to include a broccoli salad!
And a nice mixed green salad with radishes, tomatoes, peppers, kohlrabi and who knows what else we threw in.
Can’t have a garlic planting party without garlic. Here is a tasty, aromatic garlic confit with a nice crusty baguette!
Some cheesy potatoes using the lemon, thyme, ginger CheeseShare cheese — made in the crock pot!
And finally a piping hot bowl of vegetarian, winter squash chili.
I’m sorry everyone couldn’t make it out to enjoy such a fine celebration! Maybe next year!
Oh, and here are some pictures of people actually working:
Here is the crew popping the garlic bulbs into individual cloves for planting.
Here they are planting the garlic.
I hope this gives everyone who wasn’t able to attend an idea of what they missed.
Well, we have two weeks left in the season. What is on tap for this week? Peppers, garlic, broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, winter squash, potatoes, carrots, leeks, salad mix and radishes. At least that is our current thought on what we have.
FruitShare
No FruitShare this week. The Summer/Fall FruitShare is over for the season. We are still taking orders for the four remaining FruitShares this year.
CheeseShare
There is no more CheeseShare this season. We are still looking for more interest in a year-round CheeseShare. Please let me know if you are interested.
MeatShare
MeatShare is done for the season. We are still looking for more interest in a year-round MeatShare. Please let me know if you are interested.
Oat Straw bails. I’m looking for oat straw for mulching the garlic. If anyone knows a source in the eastern part of the twin cities please let me know. My usual sources have gotten out of the business or sold out to other farms. I need about 100 bales.
Egg cartons. Though our chickens aren’t laying a ton of eggs they are laying enough to put out the request for egg cartons. If you have them we will take them off your hands. Bring them in when you pick up your veggies.