Tomato Season is upon us!  For those who are wondering why so many of our tomatoes are not red and are oddly shaped, let us introduce you to heirloom tomatoes!  Heirloom plants, like the family heirloom armoire that was handed down from grandma, are seeds from plants that families saved and handed down because they made delicious fruits!  its a radical concept- to keep seeds from really tasty plants, as today's breeding work generally focuses on keeping seeds from plants that all look exactly the same, mature uniformly, and ship well.  Modern plant breeding, in fact doesn't prioritize taste much at all, just getting things to the store looking perfect.  But older gardeners and farmers knew that the taste of a food was a very important characteristic!  Consequently heirloom vegetables are tasty, often have interesting and descriptive names, (such as Aunt Ruby's German Green (one of our favorites), Schimmeig striped hollow, Hill Billy Potato leaf, mortgage lifter, and many great others) and sometimes are downright oddly shaped or colored.  We try to grow a whole rainbow of tomato colors, so that we can slice a tray that covers the whole color spectrum!  A great place to learn more about heirloom tomatoes, seed saving, and the histories of some fascinating seeds is the seed savers exchange.  (www.seedsavers.org)

We want to give you a chance to taste test all of the colors we grow, so we are holding a potluck and tomato tasting event at the farm!  it will be saturday August 15th at 6PM, we will have farm tours, bigger than last time baby goats, slices of tomatoes and chance to spend some time on a lovely vegetable growing farm!  hope you can make it!


Sorry probably no salad greens this week. Due to the wet weather of the last few weeks we were unable to get any salad green planted in a timely manner so we will not have any available for this week. Potato salad anyone? Cabbage salad (cole slaw?) Kale salad! tomato salad? cherry tomato salad?! cucumber salad, shoots salad....time to be creative!

happy eating!

This week's expected vegetables
Choose 8 items (large share 10 items):
new potatoes
carrots
eggplant
cherry tomatoes
onions
tomatoes
cabbage
basil
beets
cucumbers
green beans
yellow beans
dragon tongue beans
zucchini
summer squash
kale 
chard (maybe)
pea shoots
sunflower shoots
eggs (count as 2 items)
flour
dry black beans