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8458 NOTE: This weblog is posted 8458 by a volunteer. Nobody from 8458 the farm checks or responds 8458 to messages right here. You 8458 have to contact the farm 8458 instantly with any questions, feedback, 8458 and so forth
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8458 Pricey Associates of the Farm,
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8458 Produce 8458 : That is week 7 8458 out of an 18 week 8458 season. 8458 Your luggage will comprise 8458 carrots, radishes, white onions, 8458 cucumbers, squash, broccoli, inexperienced beans, 8458 and muskmelon.
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8458 Fruit 8458 : It is a fruit 8458 week for the fruit share 8458 members. You may be getting 8458 Rainier cherries.
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8458 Closing Funds 8458 : Closing produce funds are 8458 due the primary of September. 8458 Statements will exit no later 8458 than the top of subsequent 8458 week. When you’ve got made 8458 preparations with us to make 8458 month-to-month funds, please proceed to 8458 take action. Produce won’t be 8458 delivered if ultimate charges will 8458 not be paid by August 8458 1st. A $25 late price 8458 can be added to your 8458 account and produce deliveries won’t 8458 resume till all charges are 8458 paid in full. Please bear 8458 in mind, you’re supporting an 8458 area farm so we are 8458 able to keep in enterprise. 8458 The climate controls all the 8458 things we do!
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8458 A CSA membership is non- 8458 rerefundable and all charges are 8458 due regardless how the season 8458 seems.
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8458 Cucumbers 8458 : A lot of you 8458 might be questioning why we’re 8458 including pickling cucumbers to your 8458 shares. There’s a twofold reply 8458 to this! To begin with 8458 our first few plantings of 8458 all crops had been blown 8458 out by the wind final 8458 Could. Only a few vegetation 8458 survived the fixed howling wind. 8458 As a substitute of plowing 8458 these these beneath, we stored 8458 them. We would not have 8458 sufficient slicing cucumbers (those you’re 8458 used to getting within the 8458 grocery retailer) for everybody to 8458 get lots. We’re including the 8458 pickling cucumbers to complement this.
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8458 My grandmother had a half 8458 acre backyard. Completely different members 8458 of the family would assist 8458 her can produce for the 8458 winter. Everybody would go residence 8458 with one thing, leaving Grandma 8458 with 100% of what she 8458 wanted for the winter. When 8458 it got here to cucumbers, 8458 Grandma would solely develop one 8458 selection, pickles, and we ate 8458 them uncooked in addition to 8458 pickled. I don’t usually eat 8458 slicing cucumbers due to this. 8458 They simply don’t style just 8458 like the cucumbers I grew 8458 up with!
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8458 Muskmelon 8458 : Many individuals have no 8458 idea the distinction between muskmelon 8458 and cantaloupe. However there’s a 8458 massive distinction, and you’re going 8458 to take pleasure in each 8458 chunk of it! Muskmelon have 8458 the identical style as a 8458 cantaloupe however they’re stronger and 8458 sweeter with a slight “musky” 8458 style. The upper the sugar 8458 content material, the earlier the 8458 melon must be eaten and 8458 the explanation you don’t see 8458 them on grocery retailer cabinets. 8458
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8458 Muskmelon had been initially grown 8458 in Egypt alongside the Nile 8458 River. They love sandy soil, 8458 sizzling days, cool nights and 8458 a great deal of water. 8458 We offer that surroundings for 8458 them right here on the 8458 farm. (This farm could be 8458 very sandy as a result 8458 of we had been on 8458 the borderline of the Mud 8458 Bowl. In some locations on 8458 the farm the bottom stage 8458 rose three ft…in others we 8458 misplaced floor!) Muskmelon has the 8458 identical netting as their cousin 8458 however have ridges that run 8458 from high to backside. Trace: 8458 They’re greatest eaten at room 8458 temperature. In the event you 8458 like them chilled, minimize them 8458 open and allow them to 8458 sit for ten minutes. Like 8458 a high quality wine, they 8458 should breath to boost their 8458 taste.
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8458 Additionally, take a look at 8458 the newspaper article beneath written 8458 about our first yr. And 8458 sure, I had a mullet 8458 and cherished it!
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