August 20th, 2025
What’s in your share?
Tomatoes
Cherry Tomatoes
Sweet Bell Peppers
Yellow Onions
Cilantro
Eggplant
Summer Crisp Lettuce
Grilling and roasting and roasting and grilling. Gotta preserve the summer goodness.
Peppers are here! And so are the mosquitoes! Tuesday crew absolutely killed it yesterday, persevering through the swarms of mosquitoes that arrived overnight. Every plant had like 50 mosquitoes on it, and upon walking through the tunnels, they bombarded. We got suited up and the workshares harvested all these peppers, even though it was pretty miserable. At least it wasn’t also 90 degrees :) We’re all feeling pretty happy about the cooler weather we have coming up.
While we’re on the topic of weather, we’re finally seeing some damage from the flooding. Lots of our tomatoes split on the vine, due to the uptake of too much water. The plants are also looking a little rough, but we’re not sure what the cause is. We haven’t been irrigating much since the rain and have been foliar feeding every-other-week for the whole season, so that’s about the only thing we can do about that. This week was a low harvest week, but there are lots of green fruits on the plants, so hopefully we still have a tomato season to speak of…
Our shabby chic outdoor kitchen. Makes canning tomatoes a breeze.
Sam is almost fully healed up, and we’re happy to have him back. Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes - it was very kind and we appreciated it. The whole team is back in action and we’ve harvested the onions (after a 12 inch rain wasn’t the most ideal time) but they look great despite that unideal precipitation. We’re getting all the fall crops planted and starting to seed cover crops in beds as they get harvested for the last time. It’s crazy, all of the sudden, to be thinking about fall and doing “closing” tasks for the season.
recipes to try
Roasted Red Pepper and Eggplant Dip
How to Roast Red Peppers If you have a gas stove, you can literally put the entire pepper on the burner, turn the flame up, and let it roast until black on all sides. Turn every few minutes and don’t leave it unattended ;) Then put it in a paper bag to let it steam/cool, and the skin will peel right off.
Roasted Red Pepper Soup (You don’t have to use roasted red peppers if you don’t have the time, you can just use your bell or Italian peppers.)
Roasted a ton of poblanos this weekend. Made about 5 quarts of this sauce for the freezer. I use yogurt instead of sour cream.