July seventeenth, 2023 E-newsletter | Monroe Natural Farms

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Expensive Pals of the farm,

That is week 6 of 18 weeks of CSA.  This week you may be receiving crimson potatoes, onions, slicing cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, summer time squash, carrots, garlic, kale, and MUSK MELON!!!!!  Let’s go, July!

Fruit Shares:  One other scrumptious week of cherries is headed your manner.  They are going to be Rainier cherries, a phenomenal white with a blush of pink.  Yum.  

We’d like your assist harvesting garlic on Saturday the 29^th and Sunday the 30^th of July from 8 AM -11 AM.  Come and go as you please!  ***Not this weekend, however the subsequent weekend***First, we roll by the rows of garlic with our helpful harvester which lays the bulbs of garlic on high of the soil.  We then come by with trays and accumulate all of the garlic.  This garlic lasts for the remainder of summer time CSA and all over winter CSA, too.  We’d be honored should you would come out and assist us accumulate the garlic into trays out within the area.  We then make stacks of the trays all through the sector and are available decide them up with our tractor.  This can be a tremendous child pleasant process, and we welcome your family and friends members.  Mother and father, you may be 100% answerable for protecting your youngsters protected and away from all vehicles, tractors, any gear, and volunteers carrying trays.  Carry your complete crew and make a morning of it!  Ensure to put on lengthy sleeves and pants, a hat, sun shades, convey plenty of water and snacks for the way in which right here and residential. If you wish to use bug spray and sunscreen, please apply them at house after which wash your arms completely earlier than coming to the farm.  We develop a really scrumptious heirloom number of onerous neck, porcelain garlic.  The bonus is that you would be able to take house garlic seconds!  Come out and assist us put the unity in Neighborhood Supported Agriculture. You don’t want to contact the workplace should you can be part of us. Simply present up! The extra the merrier!

Flower bouquets out there!  A few of you could have seen that we’re dipping our toes into flower manufacturing this yr.  We’re actually stoked to be rising blooms.  Better of all, we now have sufficient to supply them to you all.  This week, we will probably be sending out pattern bouquets to every of our distribution facilities.  There will probably be bouquet sign-up sheets at every distribution middle, as effectively.  The bouquets will probably be $20 every.  Please add your identify to the sign-up sheet if you want to obtain a bouquet made with the flowers at present ample on our farm.  We select what contains every bouquet.  We are going to invoice your account accordingly.

Muskmelon:  Many individuals aren’t conscious of the distinction between muskmelon and cantaloupe.  There’s really a large distinction!  Musk melon has an analogous taste to cantaloupe, however they’re stronger and sweeter with a barely “musky” style.  The upper the sugar content material, the earlier the melon must 

be eaten.   Because of this, you don’t see them on grocery retailer cabinets.  Muskmelon had been initially grown in Egypt alongside the Nile River.  They love sandy soil, sizzling days, cool nights and a great deal of water.  Our farm could be very sandy, and we regularly discover fossilized mollusks within the rocks right here! Musk melon has the identical netting as their cousin cantaloupe besides with ridges that run from high to backside.  Trace:  They’re finest eaten at room temperature.  In the event you like them chilled, reduce them open and allow them to sit for ten minutes.  Like a high quality wine, they should breathe to reinforce their taste.

Betty Jo’s Fast Scoop Melon Trick

-Wash your melon effectively

-Lower your melon in half and take away all seeds (don’t have a compost? Scatter them for the birds!)

-Seize a big spoon or an ice cream scoop

-Scoop out melon flesh right into a mason jar or storage container, safe lid onto jar or container

 (You will get actually cute with this and use a tiny scoop for little fingers to seize, or current them tapas model and put a toothpick in every scoop on a platter with or with out prosciutto)

-Refrigerate

-Get pleasure from at your leisure

The solar goes down lengthy and crimson. All of the magic names of the valley unrolled – Manteca, Madera, all the remaining. Quickly it obtained nightfall, a grapy nightfall, a purple nightfall over tangerine groves and lengthy melon area; the solar the colour of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy crimson, the fields the colour of affection and Spanish mysteries. I caught my head out the window and took deep breaths of the aromatic air. It was essentially the most stunning of all moments.

–Jack Kerouac

Thanks for being right here with us!

Kyle, Sam, Jerry, Jacquie, Linda, and The Crew