Week of September 15 September 17, 2008

This is the last pick-up until the pumpkins, gourds and acorn squash are ready.  It seems like there is a lot to say when reflecting upon the season.  Speaking of…we will be sending out a survey and hope you will take a few minutes to complete it.  We need your honest feedback and know there are many improvements to be made.  We sure learned a lot this year and appreciate you supporting our efforts.
 
Thursday night Jay and I are going to the farm to harvest the rest of the tomatillos, to remove the tomatillo plants and to dig the rest of the potatoes.  Then on Friday morning I will harvest the remaining eggplant.  I’ll also get most of the peppers – bell, jalapenos, healthy and poblanos.  Some will be small but since it’s the last pick-up for veggies, we might as well pass them out.  I found a recipe that uses eggplant and green peppers and put it on the blog.
 
I doubt we’ll have a bunch of red tomatoes this week but I plan on harvesting a fair number of green tomatoes.  I’ve added two recipes to the blog for green tomatoes.  If you’ve never had them, try them.  I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised (fried food tastes good!).
 
I’ll cut what basil is available and you can take some if you’d like.
 
If you were one of the people that took those giant zucchinis and froze them, I added a recipe for zucchini bread to the blog.  It’s outstanding!
 
I hope to take more photos this week and post them so you can see the growing pumpkins.  The gourds are really cool looking too.
 
A reminder that pick-up is on Friday between 5 and 7 p.m. at our house.  If you need to make other arrangements, please email by Thursday or call me at 212.6675.  If you’d like to skip this week maybe because you’d rather not have more peppers, eggplant, tomatillos and green tomatoes, let me know.  I’ll just give those items to other members.
 
We can’t thank you enough for being inaugural members of Squash Blossom Farm.  We hope you’ve had an enjoyable experience supporting our local family farm.
 
Thanks everyone!
Julie, Jay and Lucy

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