August 5, 2019

Box Contents:

½ lb Painted Serpent Cucumber

1 pt Mini Charm Cherry Tomato

1 Cantaloupe

1 lb French Fingerling Potatoes

3 ears Sweet Corn

1 lb Mixed Heirloom Tomato

1 pt Shishito Peppers

Field Notes: Summer is in full swing!  We’re selling heaps of cases of heirloom and cherry tomatoes every week and everything is in peak production and flavor.  Now’s the time to do that summer canning project, get an extra case of Roma tomatoes to can or pickling cucumbers for those bread-and-butter pickles that’ll remind you of summer all winter long.  This week we’re harvesting our first Jimmy Nardello peppers (look forward to those in the next few weeks) and our first hot peppers.  We’re getting steady weather in the high 90’s up in the Capay Valley, so things are chugging along beautifully!

Box Notes: We’re including our first (non-watermelon) melons this week, and they’re fragrant and gorgeous.  We grow almost 10 different kinds of melons, our CSA manager Lola eats them with salt and lime sprinkled over them.  Enjoy your heirloom tomatoes as simply as possible, they’re gorgeous!

Save the Date: Hoes Down Harvest Festival, Saturday October 5, 2019 from 11 am to 11 pm. For ticket and event information visit: http://hoesdown.org/. Ticket sales are limited this year and only available via online, advance purchase.

2019 CSA Payment Schedule

Quarter 3: Wednesdays $312   Thursdays $312   Fridays $312

Quarter 4: Wednesdays $288   Thursdays $288   Fridays $288

Annual Payment (annual payers receive 2 complimentary veggie boxes): $1,152

We encourage you to consider making the annual payment for your veggie box deliveries. This helps support the farm by providing advance purchasing power for labor, seeds, fertilizers, and other farming expenses that are essential to the farm’s operations. Thank you for supporting the farm with your continued CSA subscription!