Hello All,



It is hard to believe that the spring season is almost over. What a great season it has been! Although the weather was really weird to begin with, we can’t argue with the results.



Lots of Lettuce!

Kale

 


More lettuce intercropped with leeks

Your shares this week will have some beets. Don’t forget that the greens are edible too! Cook them with the beets, add to a salad, or put in a stir fry. The beets themselves are wonderfully sweet, both raw and cooked. In fact, you would have had a picture of one but I ate it first. Scraped the skin off (like a carrot), grated it, and put in in a salad. It turned everything pink-including my hands, so don’t wear white while doing this-but was so good! The greens will go in an omelet tomorrow. Other ideas are to roast them (no need to peel first, the skins will slip off after cooking) or peel raw, chop up, and mix with apples or carrots. Add a vinaigrette dressing of your choice. Our initial planting of beets had sporadic germination (that would be the weird weather thing) so this first batch is not too plentiful, but we have more succession plantings to follow.

Summer shares will be starting soon, scheduled for the week of June 17^th. Since we haven’t gotten any really hot weather yet (great for greens, not so great for peppers and tomatoes) the beginning of summer will probably be a continuation of late spring. The beans are starting to flower so they should be available within a couple of weeks:



Yes, these will be purple beans

We are now sold out of summer shares, and have just a couple of fall left. Thank you all for such a wonderful response; we’ve gotten some great feedback. We hope you are enjoying this as much as we are! As always, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us at 1-804-221-3783 or jsminifarm@gmail.com.

Until next time,

Jeff and Sandra