Greetings!  I hope you had a really fun and safe 4th of July. I certainly did, enjoying the turn in the weather to sun and heat. The greenhouse is cooking with peppers, basil and tomatoes.

I’m going to keep this week’s newsletter short and sweet, I’m still harvesting this evening for tomorrow’s CSA delivery taking advantage of the cool temps. Did you know if you harvest in the heat of the day everything just wilts? Keeping the field heat off the veggies with ice or by harvesting in the nighttime keeps everything crisp and fresh.

This week we have some good tasting grub coming to the CSA members.  The harvest isn’t even, many things are ripening at different times with the hard switch from cold rain to heat. So, we have a bit of a smorgasbord going on this week. Here’s what CSA members will find in their shares this week:

* Assorted herbs – you’ll receive one of the following: Basil, sage, or mint

* Kale – siberian

* Carrots – mini rainbow carrots. These are really special seeds and I’m very excited about them. A rainbow of colors and sweet flavor in these tiny gems:

* Brassica grab bag – for whatever reason, the brassicas are maturing on their own schedule. You will receive one of the following:

• Cabbage – Couer De Boeuf Des Vertus – A delicious, pre-1856, French bull-heart type cabbage that has tall, pointed green heads .
• Kohlrabi – a bunch of this lovely broccoli-tasting treat. Very strange looking, if you’ve never seen one:

• Romanesco broccoli – another very strange looking brassica, looks more like cauliflower rather than broccoli. The true and popular Italian heirloom with spiraling, heads: