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Week 10 from Valley Flora!

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Week 10 from Valley Flora! Heirloom Tomatoes & New Potatoes!
Thanks for eating locally from our family farm!
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What's Cookin' on the Farm...
  • Summertime Solanaceous Sustenance!
  • Albion Strawberries About to Hit
Heirloom tomatoes in your tote this week!
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What's Probably In Your Share This Week:*
  • Red Onions
  • Broccoli
  • Carrots
  • Strawberries
  • Zucchini
  • Cucumbers
  • Tomatoes
  • New Potatoes
  • Lacinato Kale
On Rotation:
(Some locations will receive it this week; others in a future week)
  • Nothing this week...
*Harvest Basket contents may vary between pickup sites in a given week depending on what's ripe and ready on the farm. Don't worry - if something is on the list but not in your tote, you'll get it soon!

The VF Crystal Ball - What Might be in your Share Next Week...
  • Broccoli
  • Onions
  • Lettuce
  • Carrots
  • Cucumbers
  • Zucchini
  • Strawberries
  • Parsley
  • Tomatoes
  • Eggplant
Summertime Solanceous Sustenance!
Tomaotes and potatoes! Something that's not broccoli!
(And yes, I'm sorry, there is still broccoli in your tote. Big, gigantic, 3 pound, out of control heads of broccoli. Turns out the broccoli field in the New Nine is VERY fertile this year:). I hope you're surviving it OK.)

We are definitely turning the corner into the season of Solanaceae: that's the family that tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant and peppers all belong to (one of my personal faves). There are both red and heirloom tomatoes jumping off the vine in the greenhouses right now. Roberto dug the first new potatoes this week (lovely Red Golds....the yields weren't spectacular in this early variety, but the quality is nice). And next week you might just see your first glimpse of voluptuous, shiny purple eggplant. As soon as la berenjena (eggplant) appear, I know exactly what to eat every night: la berenjena! Broiled, grilled, lots of olive oil, salt. They are the meat of the vegetable world and for the next couple months I plan to indulge in them as often as possible. We pray for lots of ugly ones that don't make grade for our customers so that we have an ample stash of "house" eggplant at our fingertips.

Also, but not in the Solanaceae lineup, sweet corn is a mere week or two away. We planted more of it than ever this year, so get ready for some true August feasting.
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Albion Strawberries about to Hit
Good news for u-pickers: our Albion strawberries are about to turn on, which means there will be four more beds pumping out berries in the New Nine soon. The patch has been getting picked out in a hot minute every Wednesday and Saturday (our apologies if you've made the trip only to find green fruit left!). Once the Albions begin, they are prolific and delicious! The plants are loaded with white fruit, so it should really take off starting next week (if the weather cooperates). Thanks for your patience!
Greenhouse tomatoes doing their thing!
The Farmstand is Open for Summer Hours!
Every Wednesday and Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm, rain or shine!

Fresh Produce
U-pick Strawberries
Homemade Jam & Hot Sauce

Please bring your own bags!

Please note our hours are slightly changed from year's past, closing at 2 pm instead of 3 pm
 
For Recipes & Cooking Inspiration:
 
Valley Flora Recipe Wizard
Our own collection of recipes gathered over the years.
 
Epicurious
A vast collection of recipes, searchable by one or multiple ingredients
 
Full Belly Farm
Recipes from one of my favorite farms in California, pioneers of the organic movement since the 80s.

Farm Fresh to You
A storehouse of recipes, searchable by ingredient.
 
Helsing Junction Farm
A Washington farm that has a good collection of seasonal recipes geared toward CSA members.
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Week 9 from Valley Flora!

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Week 9 from Valley Flora! Walla Walla Sweets! Tomatoes! Cukes!
Thanks for eating locally from our family farm!
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What's Cookin' on the Farm...
  • Holy OnionTomatoCukeBeetCabbage Batman!
  • Reading Reminder :)
 
Cirque du Valley Flora! Pippin, Cleo, Uma and Jules, bottom to top.
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What's Probably In Your Share This Week:*
  • Walla Walla Sweet Onions
  • Broccoli
  • Red Cabbage
  • Carrots
  • Head Lettuce
  • Strawberries
  • Zucchini
  • Cucumbers
  • Tomatoes
  • Beets
  • Dill
On Rotation:
(Some locations will receive it this week; others in a future week)
  • Spinach/Arugula
*Harvest Basket contents may vary between pickup sites in a given week depending on what's ripe and ready on the farm. Don't worry - if something is on the list but not in your tote, you'll get it soon!

The VF Crystal Ball - What Might be in your Share Next Week...
  • Broccoli
  • Red Onions
  • Lettuce
  • Carrots
  • Cucumbers
  • Zucchini
  • Strawberries
  • Potatoes
  • Tomatoes
Holy OnionTomatoesCukeBeetCabbage Batman!
Whoa, dense food!

This week's tote is a crescendo of some things late, some things early and others right on time. Tomatoes: early. Beets and Walla Wallas: late. Red Cabbage: spot on.

All I could see while we were packing Harvest Baskets yesterday was a chopped salad with tomatoes and cucumber and carrots and Walla Wallas - some iteration of Greek salad. It's one of my favorite things to eat and as a result I anticipate and crave this collision of farm food all year. It's the kind of of salad that can easily become a stand-alone dinner, especially if you pump it up with some nuts, or beans or cheese to give it more protein oompf.

Chef and cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi really made me fall in love with the idea thanks to this recipe: Spiced Chickpea with Fresh Vegetable Salad. I improvise everytime I make it, adding whatever choppable veg I have on hand, and usually omitting the radishes since I never have them growing on the farm at the same time as cucumbers and tomatoes. The spiced chickpeas are addictive. Come eggplant time (soon!), I like to broil eggplant slabs, chop them up and add them to the salad as well. If you don't own any of Ottolenghi's cookbooks, this is the right season to buy one (or four). Jerusalem is a great place to start. He excels at all things vegetable (and meat) and will teach you how to make a mean shawarma.
 
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Reading Reminder
Just a gentle nudge reminding everyone to read the signage and labels at your pickup site each time. There has a been a rash of salad, egg and flower share mix-ups recently. Also, and just as importantly, if someone is picking up on your behalf, S-P-E-L-L it out for them in all caps bold. Tell them what to take, but also tell them explicitly what NOT to take. Proxy pick-ups are the culprit behind missing salad/egg/flower shares 99% of the time. Thanks for your help from my beleaguered detective desk.
 
One of the fields in the New Nine, thick with winter squash, potatoes, Brussels sprouts, kale, chard and purple-flowering Phacelia, a cover crop that we inter-planted with our cash crops to create habitat for beneficial insects. The bees love it! White clover is also inter-seeded in the pathways between single row crops to create a living (and flowering) mulch between rows.
The Farmstand is Open for Summer Hours!
Every Wednesday and Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm, rain or shine!

Fresh Produce
U-pick Strawberries
Homemade Jam & Hot Sauce

Please bring your own bags!

Please note our hours are slightly changed from year's past, closing at 2 pm instead of 3 pm
 
For Recipes & Cooking Inspiration:
 
Valley Flora Recipe Wizard
Our own collection of recipes gathered over the years.
 
Epicurious
A vast collection of recipes, searchable by one or multiple ingredients
 
Full Belly Farm
Recipes from one of my favorite farms in California, pioneers of the organic movement since the 80s.

Farm Fresh to You
A storehouse of recipes, searchable by ingredient.
 
Helsing Junction Farm
A Washington farm that has a good collection of seasonal recipes geared toward CSA members.
Copyright © 2018 Valley Flora, All rights reserved.


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