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Expensive Associates of the farm,
This week your bag is stuffed with deliciousness! You can be getting onions, turnips, garlic, beets, summer season squash, cucumbers and curly leaf kale.
Egg cartons & olive oil bottles: Croft Household Farm wish to have egg cartons returned to them. Wholesome Harvests will re-use all returned bottles, please run them by way of your dishwasher or handwash them previous to returning. Egg cartons and clear olive oil bottles might be delivered to your distribution middle. Let’s assist them out with this and return these bottles & cartons! Sadly, Lazy Bee doesn’t have a facility to wash and sterilize jars, so please recycle these.
Produce Cost: Half of all of your remaining charges at the moment are due (until you may have made different preparations with the workplace). Late charges might be utilized July eleventh. Please permit 1 to 2 weeks for us to course of your checks (you’ll nonetheless get credit score for them arriving on time). We are going to do our greatest to get them processed as quickly as doable.
Monsoon! It’s been extremely popular round right here! It’s a problem for the people, nonetheless, the vegetation thrive so long as they get loads of water. Watering is a full time job! We’re so grateful for all the gorgeous mountain snow run off speeding by way of our irrigation ditches. Now with the arrival of the monsoon, allow us to hope that we get a number of afternoon rains to assist cool us off, to revive the vegetation, the bottom (& ground-water) and us people.
Quote of the week: Eat what you may and might what you may’t!
Sausage & Potato Shock, by Jacquie
1 pound spicy sausage (jalapeno brats is my fave)
3 cloves garlic, sliced
4 to six potatoes lower into wedges
1 bunch of spinach or kale
2 med. onions, lower in half then lower into ½ inch slices rinsed and roughly chopped
If utilizing kale, clear properly then therapeutic massage together with your arms for five to 10 minutes to melt leaves. Take away spines and chop, put aside. In a big frypan, slice diagonally sausage if utilizing one thing that’s in a hyperlink or crumble packaged sausage and cook dinner till cooked half by way of. Drain off all however a few tablespoons of fats. Cook dinner potatoes and onions with meat till potatoes are tender. Add garlic and greens and cook dinner till spinach is wilted or kale is smooth. Add pepper and salt if wanted. Serve from pan!
With gratitude,
Kyle, Jerry and Jacquie
