Labor Day snuck right up on us this year, didn’t it? Shout out to Farmer Mia and Farmer Kelly who arrived at the farm today to find hundreds of pounds of ripe and ready tomatoes waiting to be picked this morning. We were scrambling to find enough trays to hold them! Those ninety-ish degree days last week sped up their ripening big time. It also up a whole lot of Romano Beans and is blurring the timelines between our intended rotations of crops like sweet corn and varieties cabbage. In short—this is one big harvest week, which makes this a great time to consider squirreling a few tomatoes away in the freezer to pull out for a pot of sauce or soup when the cold and drear set in. (You don’t have to peel or do ANYTHING with them ahead of time—just pop the stems off, toss them in a bag and deal with them later. The skins actually slip off very easily after freezing). Mark doesn’t know it yet, but he and I are going to freeze a whole bunch of Romano Beans over the next couple of weeks too. I love them as a standalone side dish or in curries and stews—and stew season is nigh. Somewhere out there, pumpkins are turning orange and days are getting shorter, but I find genuine joy in knowing that the food that we’re growing this time of year helps us hold onto Summer a little bit longer. Here’s to enjoying the goodness of Summer in September and our next and final four weeks of Summer!
Pick ‘em while you’ve got em,
Katie
PS: 2025 Fall Invoices and Fall signup info for our current CSA members will go out starting next week!
IN THE FARMSHARES THIS WEEK:
Napa Cabbage
Tomatoes (Cherries,
Slicers and/or Heirlooms)
Sweet Corn
Romano Beans
Zucchini and/or Cucumbers
Nectarines
RECIPES & SEASONAL TIPS
25 FANTASTIC & FRESH GREEN BEAN RECIPES - Food & Wine
STIR FRIED SOBA NOODLES WITH CORN & CABBAGE - The Vegan Atlas
SMASHED CUCUMBER SALAD - Recipe Tin Eats
AIR FRYER GREEN BEANS- Love & Lemons
RUSTIC GREEN BEAN SOUP - The Peasant’s Daughter
GRILLED CORN SALAD - Rainbow Plant Life (Thank you, Elizabeth!)
NICOISE SALAD - Julia Child
GRILLED TOMATOES - Feasting at Home
NECTARINE, MASCARPONE & GINGERSNAP TART - Smitten Kitchen
SHRIMP & TOMATO SUCCOTASH SKILLET- Delish (Thanks, Kate!)