Get your recipes out for Edamame'

This week has been another big adjustment week with our kids and our help going back to school. Hope all those going back have a thoroughly enjoyable, educational year.
Edamame in your share this week.
It's planted in the u-pic field for you to pick but it's going to be much easier if we just pay the help to harvest it and you pick it out of a big tub. Edamame requires a little work and the same kind of attitude when you play or watch your kids play Tiddly Winks. Remember that game? Pluck the bean pods off the stem, rinse well and place pods in low boiling water for 2-3 minutes. Squeeze the pods between your fingers and out will pop the beans. Eat them, refrigerate them, or freeze them. It's family fun time.

Sweet corn is in the share too, and tomatoes, summer squash and some Swiss chard.
Chickens were processed last week, if you had an order on batch #4 then it is in the freezer. Ask for your order at the Feed Barn counter.

If you wish to can tomatoes this year and want to use the farm tomatoes, canners are $1.00/lb. You will need to place an order with me or at the F.B. counter.

We are still planting and hoping to be harvesting well into October for the CSA. Flashy Trout romaine and Jericho romaine went in today. Two weeks ago we planted beets. They are just starting to show their tiny little leaves and red stems. The winter squash looks to be doing well. It was planted late so it will need another month before most of it can be harvested. Our peppers and egg plant are struggling for some unknown reason, even though they have been fed and watered very well through the drought. We will have another harvest of cucumbers in a few weeks and there are 4-5 rows of potatoes to be dug yet. The farmers are all complaining about their potato crop this year. If 50 pounds went into a row the yield is about 51 pounds instead of  the normal quadrupled seed weight. Not complaining though, at least there was something.
See you at the farm.
Linda