Week 12 - Notes from Remembrance Farm

NOTES FROM REMEMBRANCE FARM

The peak of summer harvest is upon us, with tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, sweet corn, melons and much more flowing through the barn these days. Not much time is left for anything more than regular harvesting, but on the farm we always must be looking ahead and preparing for the next season even as we attend to the moment.

We've finished our big plantings of storage root crops but they still must be cared for over the next few months. Onions have been brought in from the field to cure in empty high tunnels, and we will clean and sort them regularly from now through the winter. We are sowing kale now that we will harvest all winter, and we continue planting salad greens outdoors for another month before shifting to indoor plantings for winter.

In the dairy the cows are enjoying the cooler temperatures this week, and the plentiful moisture this summer has meant plenty of good quality grass in the pastures. We are also making some much needed updates to the milking barn that will make work in the dairy much more efficient this winter.

-Nathaniel

PS for those looking ahead to the coming seasons with us, Winter CSA shares will go on sale in September—we hope you’ll join us through the winter months!

this week’s veggies

salad greens* - remembrance
musk melon - remembrance
onions - remembrance
tomatoes - stick and stone and remembrance
cucumbers - stick and stone and remembrance
beans - rotating romano & green beans - stick and stone
potatoes - hill side farm
rosemary - high ground gardens and stick and stone

ROTATING —————————————

sweet peppers - remembrance
poblano peppers - remembrance
summer squash - stick and stone
tomatillos - stick and stone

crops are our best estimate & may change a bit after harvest. rotating means harvest will be enough for some, but not all locations this week; we’ll get each crop everywhere soon! *salad greens rotate btwn field greens, spicy mix, lettuce mix, arugula, baby kale & tatsoi

this week’s fruit bowl

Honeycrisp Apples - Rosario Brothers, Medina, NY
Yellow Peaches - Becken’s, Sodus, NY
White Nectarines - Bittner-Singer, Appleton, NY

this week’s Remembrance cheese

Baby Bear - Camembert style cheese
or choose - Feta - the crumbly salty classic - ltd availability, FCFS

preorder and pickup

PICKUP THIS WEEK 8/21-8/24:

ORGANIC ROMA TOMATOES — Stick and Stone — Pickup this week (8/21-8/24)

Order Roma Tomatoes

PEACHES — Beckens — Pickup this week (8/21-8/24)

Order Peaches

PRUNE PLUMS — Bittner Singer — Pickup this week (8/21-8/24)

Order Plums

updates from the farm & friends…

CALL FOR BAGS

Got a stockpile of (clean!) plastic bags? Paper bags? Target bags? We’d love to take them off your hands! Drop them off at your free choice pickup and we’ll keep them handy for folks when they forget their bags.

PAYMENT PLANNERS, PAYMENTS WERE DUE 8/15

All payments are $125 ($62 for HFFA members). Pay online here, pay via cash or check (to Full Plate Farms, PO Box 6898, Ithaca, NY 14851 or brought to your free choice pickup) or pay via SNAP/EBT at GreenStar and send us a copy of your receipt. Find more payment plan info here.

NEXT WEDS. 8/28, 4-7pm - STONE BEND FARM, OPEN SPACES AND LLOYD’S BOYS COMING TO THE FARM

Join us for our next Farm Fundraiser featuring live music with Lloyd’s Boys, pizza from Stone Bend Farm, and a cocktail/mocktail bar featuring beverages from all sorts of local producers curated and served by Open Spaces Cider! 100% of event proceeds will support our subsidized CSA program! Stop by for your CSA pickup, stick around for some food, drink and music delights :)

on our plates…

Share what you’ve been cooking, we’re always glad to know, and eager to pass along. Just email Molly. Find this week’s ingredients in bold.

Gazpacho

1 medium cucumber, chopped
2 pounds ripe tomatoes, chopped
1 sweet pepper, stemmed and seeded
1/2 shallot or onion, rinsed
2 garlic cloves
3 tablespoons sherry vinegar or red wine vinegar
½ cup extra virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling
1¼ teaspoon sea salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Optional: 2 slices stale bread to make it creamy
Optional garnishes: diced cucumber, fresh herbs (upick), drizzles of olive oil, halved cherry tomatoes (upick) and freshly ground black pepper.

PREPARATION

Add the cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, onion, garlic, cilantro, vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper and bread (if using) to a blender. Blend until smooth. Season to taste and chill for 1-2 hours. Serve cold.

Cuke season continues, here’s more ideas…

Cucumber Salads: make it creamy or spicy or vinegar-y or with tomatoes
Cucumber Kvass
Quick Pickles
Mayo, sliced cuke and salt on some Wide Awake toast is a perfect summer snack
use them as a vessel for dips or crunch on them all by themselves!
add them to water or a cocktail

More in-season inspiration…

Sweet peppers: Roasted Red Bell Pepper Dip
Sweet peppers, beans: Braised Green Beans & Roasted Red Peppers
Poblano peppers, potatoes, onion: Poblano Corn Chowder
Tomatoes, herbs: Tomato Tart or try tomato pie, recommended by a member!
Tomatoes, onion, upick basil: Bruschetta
Beans, tomato, upick parsley: Grilled Summer Salad with Tonnato Verde
Beans, upick herbs: Lemon Herb Pasta Salad with Green Beans
Romano beans! Great in Minestrone or Braised w/ Tomatoes

U-Pick Gardens

open 7 days/week during daylight hours. unlimited use. for Full Plate vegetable share members only. see more u-pick info and maps!

Perennials (oregano, mint, sage, etc) continue steadily at both farms, plus…

AT STICK AND STONE FARM

BEHIND THE BARN: So many flowers—zinnias, amaranth, scabiosa, marigolds, more! Plus, perilla and cutting celery. Maybe even a handful of okra.

CREEKSIDE GARDEN: Basil and Rosemary looking nice at the back end of the garden. Tomatillos and shishito peppers are looking nice. Cherry tomatoes and some other peppers are ready for picking too! Aaand there’s a handful of ripening paste tomatoes. Cool weather has slowed down ripening a bit, things should speed up when warmer weather returns.

AT THE YOUTH FARM PROJECT

THE MAIN GARDEN (atop the hill across the street from the barn) has SO MUCH beautiful basil! There’s also lovely perilla, green corriander and cutting flowers too!

AT PRESS BAY COURT - the cutest lil Mini U-pick!

A handful of cherry tomatoes, a bit of basil and a smattering of flowers

SEE U-PICK DETAIL MAPS