Wk 26 | Summer 8    Sneak Peek    Tu-Th | Aug 27 & 29
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Basil and Garlic in the same week....you know it's time for 
  
A few important crop notes...
 
Hot!--proceed with caution. We've just learned that a few Anaheim peppers (hot) were mixed in a bin with mostly Carmen (sweet) peppers and may have mistakenly made it into some boxes this week. Both are green at the moment and elongated, but the Anaheims are a bit thinner. Though mild as hot peppers go, that will be small comfort to an unsuspecting tongue, so please use caution biting into any of your peppers this week!  
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Green Carmens
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Green Anaheims
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Sweet" Peppers. We use the designation of "sweet" for some peppers to differentiate them from "hot" peppers, not necessarily because they are, in fact, sweet. The earlier, green Carmen peppers haven't yet developed the sweetness they will attain when they turn red. And our bell peppers will be particularly sweet when they show up in gorgeous red, yellow, and orange in a few weeks.

 

Tasty tomatoes. After spending many days recently in the farm's processing kitchen with a wide variety of tomatoes, Chris is backing away from his statements in this week's newsletter about bland tomatoes. As often happens, the earliest harvests hadn't reached the best flavor, and he's finding that they're coming on nicely--and he's eaten more than a few! 

 

Eggplant et al. The responses to Chris's recent message about eggplants was very heartening--we really feel the support in Community Supported Agriculture! Though some of you received eggplants with shortened lifespans, the consensus seems to be that there's often still good food value inside, and even if not, that's to be expected. We don't want you to expect bad produce, but we do appreciate the recognition of the hard work and difficult decisions that go into putting together your boxes. I'd like to clarify, too, that we don't consider feedback about such things to be complaining or whining! (In some instances we were hearing about the eggplant quality from our own drivers as they moved the produce into coolers.) We want to hear your feedback; we'll be more judicious in the future about how we respond. 
 
                                                                                                 -- Robin
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Basil and tomatoes in the same week, too!  Here's a simple version of a Caprese salad--no recipe needed. I'd probably drizzle it with pesto for good measure.
caprese salad



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