Summer 2026 Week 4 Newsletter
Howdy Folks,
Well we should have enough Strawberries for everyone to gorge themselves on. If you want a flat we got them. Our very own certified organic deliciously sweet berries! Chris planted more than ever last summer for this reason, so more people can stock up on strawberries. We have a family favorite recipe. Strawberry fruit roll ups. One flat of strawberries, just a rinse and removal of the stem, leave the calyx and blend in a blender, then pour onto parchment paper and place in a dehydrator at 135º for 16 hours. We make enough to eat them throughout the year, they are an amazing snack. We sometimes roll them with peanut or sunflower butter spread on them. They go in the kids lunches. It’s the one thing my kids don’t get made fun of in their lunch and kids ask if they can have some.
Garlic Scapes, are a gem of the hardneck garlic plant! The flowering scape! Nipped in the bud, literally. Only hardneck varieties produce the garlic scape. These are very easy to turn into pesto. Simply cut off the bud and the rest is juicy garlicky stem. Just put on a pulse with a little salt and oil and whatever herb you choose. This past week we have been enjoying a jar of cilantro pesto made with the garlic scapes, but any herb will do, parsley, basil, sage. You can preserve just the blended scape with oil and salt, simply put into a small silicone or plastic container ( some folks swear by ice cube trays) put a layer of oil on top to help keep the brilliant green color and freeze for a later date! (Store these garlic scape cubes in a freezer bag.)
In the next couple of weeks we can look forward to sugar snap peas and cabbage coming into our meals. Ode to plant diversity! It would be a rather plain life without it, boring, unrelentingly dull. With summer coming so soon abundance is upon us. It’s time to stock up.
Your Farmers,
Chris, Aeros, and the Who Crew
This is the momma Killdeer making a rucus displaying her fancy I have a broken wing I'm vulnterable skit as she is really just trying to keep me away from her nest with 4 eggs in it. She has a very loud peircing call, to deter me from staying around. The Killdeer are ground nesting birds that favor loose soils, and little pebbles for their nests.
She isn’t taking her eyes off us!
Killdeer eggs in their earthy rocky twig nest.