Last chance to join the Summer CSA!

If you’ve just returned to Ithaca for school or have been thinking you’d like to join in on the abundance, now’s the time! Join today to begin your pro-rated CSA next week. Summer CSA enrollment ends at the end of August (maybe sooner if we reach our max), and Winter CSA sign ups will begin in September.

We still have 12 weeks of fresh, local, organic veggies left to enjoy between now and November! We’d love to share the harvest with you.

this week’s veggies

• salad greens* - remembrance

• sweet peppers - remembrance

• tomatoes - remembrance & stick and stone

• cucumbers - remembrance & stick and stone

• onions - ailsa craig variety - stick and stone

• garlic - stick and stone

• watermelon - stick and stone

• beans - stick and stone

ROTATING —————————————

• sweet corn - remembrance

• shishito peppers - mostly mild, about 1 in 15 hot - RF & SS

• tomatillos - stick and stone

• summer squash - stick and stone

• eggplant - stick and stone

• basil - remembrance & stick and stone

• perilla - stick and stone

this week’s fruit bowl

• blackberries - hurd orchard

• yellow peaches - beckens

preorder and pickup

please return your boxes from any bulk orders - we will reuse them!

PICKUP THIS WEEK 8/23-8/26:

PEACHES - for pickup this week 8/23-8/26 from Beckens, Sodus

PRUNE PLUMS - for pickup this week 8/23-8/26 from Bittner Singer, Appleton

SWEET PEPPERS - for pickup this week 8/23-8/26 - Organic, from Remembrance

updates from the farm & friends…

PAYMENT PLANNERS, PAYMENTS WERE DUE 8/15

All payments are $120 ($59 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 EBT at GreenStar and send us a copy of your receipt. Find more payment plan info here.

FARM TO FOOD TRUCK NEXT WEEK WITH STONE BEND

Stone Bend Farm will be serving up fresh wood fired pizza at Stick and Stone Farm Wednesday 8/30 from 4-7. Plus cider from Open Spaces! A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Healthy Food For All, our partner in making CSA shares affordable & accessible to all in our community. Open to the public!

WORK PARTY SATURDAY AT THE YOUTH FARM

This Sat 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, perfectly paired with your CSA pickup! Come lend a helping hand and chat with Joe about soil health! Thank you so much in advance for helping! Please register with this form or email Joseph

on our plates…

Please 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.

More in-season inspiration…

• Sweet corn, onion, basil: Sweet Corn Gnocchi Skillet

• Watermelon: Watermelon Daquiri or try sliced melon with a bit of lime juice

• Watermelon, cucumber, upick mint: Watermelon Cuke Salad

• Eggplant, fruit bowl peaches, basil: Grilled Eggplant & Peach Caprese Salad

• Beans, salad greens: French Green Bean Salad with Warm Goat Cheese

• Beans: Warm Green Bean Salad with Shallots & Mustard

• Sweet peppers: Roasted Red Bell Pepper Dip

• Perilla is super versatile! Add it to salads, use it as a wrap, or use it as an herb.

• Tomatillos (also in u-pick!), upick hot peppers: Tomatillo Salsa

• The best, easiest way to enjoy shishitos? Blistered! With some aioli for dippin’ - Shishitos are mostly mild with an occasional hot one in the mix

U-Pick Gardens

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

AT STICK AND STONE FARM

ROADSIDE GARDEN: basil and sunflowers still looking beautiful and abundant—make yourself some pesto!

CREEKSIDE GARDEN: SO MUCH! Don’t miss out on our biggest upick field nestled behind the treeline at Stick and Stone. You’ll find Cutting flowers galore: zinnias, tithonia, scabiosa, snapdragons, cleome, black eyed susan and the list goes on. Ground cherries and tomatillos are here and hot peppers too—all 16 beds of them. And there’s thai basil, parsley, and corriander too. See detailed crop maps & pepper descriptions here

BEHIND THE BARN: cherry tomatoes are here! And the first ripe paste tomatoes too. And fun greens like perilla, amaranth, molokhia and more.

PERENNIAL BEDS: chives, bee balm, oregano, more!

AT THE YOUTH FARM PROJECT

MAIN GARDEN: Cutting flowers like zinnias, snapdragons, cosmos, and more! Basil, perilla, thai basil, thyme and corriander in abundance—don’t miss the basil nestled in with the tomatoes too! Cherry tomatoes and ground cherries are rolling, along with the beginnings of okra and peppers.

PERENNIAL BEDS: sage, chives, thyme, bee balm and more carry on steadily.