“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”
~Pema Chodron~
Summer Share Box 7 Crop List
- Cauliflower – All Shares
- Summer Squash/Zucchini – All Shares
- Cucumbers – All Shares
- Sugar Snap Peas – All Shares
- Kale – All Shares
- Kohlrabi – All Shares
- Scallions – All Shares
- Oregano – All Shares
- Basil – All Shares
- Peppers (Bell & Beaver Dam) – Full Shares Only
- Broccoli – Full Shares Only
Farmer Notes
Things are progressing nicely here on Earth Dance Farm as we make our way from July into August. We continue to plant for our Fall and Winter seasons and spend over half of our time harvesting all the wonderful produce for the boxes. Keeping our fields ‘clean’ involves: as much time as we can find for hand weeding, hoeing, and cultivating growing crops, mowing completed crops with the bush hog and between black plastic crops (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and melons) and also between the onions, garlic and potato beds/rows with the lawn mower, and reeling in the row cover once it has done its work. Crop areas that are harvested and mowed down are then disced and planted into one of several cocktail blends of cover crop. As our Facebook post showed this week, a buckwheat/ sudangrass cover was cut and disced in preparation for our fall Cruciferous vegetables. This cover crop scavenged potassium, protected the soils, provided an environment for microbial life, and added organic matter to our efforts of building soil.
~Farmer Norm
Crop of the week – Cauliflower
It’s that time of year again, and cauliflower is on the menu. Growing abundantly in the fields, it is a hardy, tasty and filling crop that is featured in this week’s box. Cauliflower is a wonderfully versatile vegetable that can be prepared in a variety of ways, for a number of tastes and palettes. Originating in Asia around the Mediterranean Sea, cauliflower made its way to Europe in the sixteenth century and was first planted in North America in the late seventeenth century. Since then it has exploded as a staple crop in the United States, with California growing the most cauliflower out of any state.
Preparing cauliflower can be simple and fun, or you can really get into it and transform it into something totally new! Roasting it in oil with your favorite spices is always a quick and easy recipe you can throw into your back pocket. This goes great with meat. Another idea, my personal favorite, is pulsing it into rice with the food processor. You soften it with curry or your favorite sauce and you’re good to go. If you do go the curry route, add meatballs, cilantro or parsley, and diced apples to elevate that dish to the stratosphere. Cauliflower steamed with melted butter is always a great guilty pleasure as well. To give yourself a kick, make roasted buffalo cauliflower with some blue cheese dressing to dip them in. Hope y’all enjoy cooking up this wonderful ingredient with your box this week. Cheers!
-Farmer Dylan
Some Recipes To Try:
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