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Soy Free Fryers available August 16th and 17th

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Nicola potatoes will be the Saturday shares. Rutabagas and Yukon Gold potatoes will be on the cart but not in the shares because we do not have enough for any size of shares. This week we used our new to us potato picker and it was a success. It is the first mechanical harvester we have had for our produce.

This is just a heartfelt reminder to drive slowly and carefully up our drive and in the parking area. Thursday, a commercial vehicle drove into here like he was living a scene out of Fast and Furious.

Maybe we worry too much, but we often have children including toddlers, as well as adults, pets, and poultry and other livestock in the driveway. While no people or dogs were hit, only because none were around, one duckling was killed. We know that driving here is a bit of a challenge with the poultry, dogs, and people, but it is a nice way to live and a lovely place to visit. We don’t want to lose any more livestock.

Starting Thursday, there will be potatoes in the shares. Today we tried the new to us potato picker and it was a success. We harvested over 100 pounds of potatoes in a few minutes. There was more time spent on trying to figure out how to make it work right, but that is to be expected. This potato picker is likely 40 years old, and it is really a Frankenstein monster of a machine. Perhaps a majority of the parts are retrofitted. We bought it because it was cheap, and about the only potato harvester on Craigs List.

New potatoes have extremely thin skins, higher starch content, and are very tasty. The first potatoes will be Yukon Gold and Nicolas. Both are white potatoes with beige skin. We roast our potatoes with rutabaga, peas, shallots, garlic, onions, kohlrabi, and squash. Not always at the same time. If we have collard greens, kale, or Indian red mustard, near the end of roasting time, we lay that on top of the hard vegetables, which gives them a quick steaming and crisps the greens into chips. We always toss our roasting vegetables in olive oil, and add home dried oregano, salt and pepper.

The crew harvested garlic. Only Shandong and Purple Glazer, so far, and it is drying in the barn. While most of it dries, we have the special treat of fresh garlic. Fresh garlic can be used just as you would dried garlic. I prefer to roast it with other vegetables, such as peas and rutabaga. 

We have such an abundance of veggies that we opened up our CSA. Because there is about 13 weeks left, shares can be bought in 4-week amounts. Want 12 weeks, buy 3 4-week shares. For those who want to test drive a CSA share, 1-week shares available. Please recommend us to a friend. When they buy a 4-week share, make sure they tell us, and we will give you a pound of fruit.

Chicken will be ready soon. Pre-order yours now.

Don't forget to buy your Veggie Bucks.

The CSA bags are full full full

Most everything in the On the Cart list will be Saturday's shares, but somethings will not. Why? Some crops have run their course while others are just starting to produce. For example Black Hungarian Peppers are a little before their time, so we only have a few. Fennel is between crops, so these are either the laggards from the last crop or the precocious ones from the next crop.

On the Cart

We have a truly abundant cart this week at the Poulsbo Farmer’s Market.

Black Hungarian peppers

Fennel bulbs

Goldenbush zucchini summer squash

Bulldog collard greens

2 types of peas

Amish snow peas
Oregon sugar snap

3 types of head lettuce:

                Jericho green Romaine
                Concept butter head
                Red Oak Leaf

Mixed salad greens

2 types of Kale

                lacinato (dino)
                red Russian

Rutabagas

Rutabaga soup greens

Shallot greens

Garlic scapes

Green Swiss chard

5 color silverbeet chard

Rhubarb

We had hamburger from our own beef, roasted potatoes, rutabaga, green garlic, bulb onions, leek greens, green onions, and raw snap peas. It's so nice to know where our food comes from, since we grow it ourselves.