This is the last week of the 2017 season!
Be sure to sign up for 2018! We’ve had a great response so far and hope to hear that all of you will be returning. To reserve your shares send in or bring in a deposit of $100.
Don’t forget to fill out the online survey conducted by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Cards with the link were handed out last week. If you didn’t receive a card please contact me and I can send you the link.
Farm News
Just a whole lot of harvesting and washing going on these days. A lot of our harvesting is of below ground veggies — carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc. — which makes the washing part so much more work. We do our best to get them clean but with only a couple of tanks and a hose it is hard to scrub off the dirt. So we give a little bit farm away free with every order. Hopefully you don’t mind a little extra scrubbing. We could certainly spend the extra time washing them but then you would receive far less produce. There is only so many hours available to do all the farm work. Next week we will have more than enough time to do it, but then there won’t be any left to wash…
What will we have this week? Most importantly sweet potatoes! We dug the sweet potatoes two weeks ago and have been curing them in our greenhouse. They were a bit dirty when we pulled them out of the ground and as far as I can tell they haven’t cleaned up much since. We will try to get them washed prior to distribution but if we run out of time I apologize in advance for their uncleanliness. Also new this week is popcorn! The popcorn may not yet be dry enough to pop. I suggest waiting a couple of weeks. To test if it is ready take a couple of kernels off the cob and try popping them. If they pop the rest should be ready. If they don’t pop, wait another few weeks and try again. I will send out a newsletter when I find ours is popping. Pro-Tip: If the kernels are really difficult to get off the cob it is most likely not ready.
What else will we have this week? We have plenty of carrots, onions, shallots, and garlic. Hopefully we have enough potatoes though I’m not positive if we have enough for every share; it may need to be matched with something else. We will have bigger squash like butternuts. Then the rest is odds and ends from what remains in the field. Things like brussels sprouts, leeks, beets, cabbage, kale, etc.
We have SeafoodShare and SalmonShare this week.
The potatoes for WinterShare will also be distributed this week.
I believe that is all of the extra shares left for the season.
As always, do not hesitate to send in comments, questions, etc.