Heirlooms at Last!
As you know from the last newsletter as well as in the news, the tomatoes are scarce this year. We have been doing the Heirloom Tomato Tasting at the Hoboken Historical Museum for the past 10 years, and even if Rich had to go to Peru to get tomatoes he would. Fortunately, we have a network of farmers who were able to get us tomatoes for the event as well as supplement any of our harvest for the CSA delivery, so there are finally some heirlooms!!! Farmer Rich notes that our on-farm Heirlooms are not in great shape. The field in the back was lost due to the blight. The other field is just too wet to get any good production, but we hope to be able to harvest some more over the next week or two.
It was great to meet many CSA members at the Tasting on Sunday and we want to thank the Hoboken Historical Museum for hosting the event as well as their network of volunteers who worked throughout the day from set-up to take-down. It was a brisk day of non-stop lines of tomato lovers basking the glory of finally being able to taste about 20 different varieties of tomatoes.
One of our local farmers is Shawna who we have been getting some of her glorious tomatoes over the years. She just became a Certified Food Processor and brought over some of her goodies for us to bring to the Tomato Tasting. Everyone who tried her products loved them and what we want to do is offer them to you on a pre-order basis. She likes to harvest and process on the SAME day, so you can't get much fresher than that. Currently she has the following items:
• Watermelon Pickles
• Peach Jam
• Peach Chutney
• Homegrown Plum Jam
• Blueberry Jam
• Sweet Pickle Relish
• Pat's Crispy Sweet Pickle Chips
• Dilly Beans
Shawna anticipates expanding her offerings and will include some more seasonal goodies. We also want to work with her to prepare some garlic goods over the next month. I will be sending out an e-mail to everyone so you can pre-order and we can make a delivery once a month of her goodies.
From the Fields: During the week Farmer Rich and the crew managed to re-seed the beds that were washed out from one of our many storms. It was just in time for another 2 ½" of rain and hopefully they are not washed out as well. It is getting very late in the season for direct seeding, but we keep trying!! Some greens will be planted from transplants this week.
Weather Report: An interesting week in that some more severe thundershowers passed through. We even had a hail storm on Friday afternoon as we were rounding up the tomatoes, etc from our local network of farmers. At least the hail did not damage any of the field crops, as Farmer Rich was able to assess for any damage rather quickly. Not that we could do anything about it, but he likes to get a pulse from the fields each and every day.
Pick of the Week: click on the links below or to the right to bring you to the delivery specific to your pick-up location. Deliveries will be of similar variety & poundage, but may contain different items. Occasionally, some crops are ready to harvest but not enough to deliver to all our drop-off locations. What we do is start to filter them in each week to a different drop-off until there is enough to delivery to everyone.
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