Tewksbury Grace Farm

Summer is peaking at the farm! The recent rains produced a giant flush of mushrooms, so everyone gets a full pound of shiitake this week. Prepare to grill, sauté, and roast these tasty and nutritious fungi! Take a gander at our informative shiitake label for more information. Also, look for a pretty eggplant, which may be white, striped, magenta……we like to slice eggplant into thin medallions, brush generously with olive oil and spices and place under the broiler until tender (turning once).

Also, a local restaurant, the Inn at Turkey Hill in Bloomsburg, that features our vegetables and fruits extensively on their menu, is hosting a special chef’s series event that focuses on the quality produce from our farm. If you like eating scrumptious organic foods, check out the link below to find out more about this fabulous food event scheduled in September. Hope to see ya there!

http://www.innatturkeyhill.com/menu.html#chef-series

Here’s what’s in the bag this week:

• Heirloom tomatoes  -- So many lovely and sweet varieties. You will find all kinds of unusual and shapely tomatoes. These are ripe, so plan to eat in the next few days. Remember that tomatoes do NOT like to be refrigerated!
• Red Onions- gorgeous red onion just coming into harvest.
• Summer Squash – come in a variety of colors and shapes. Use like zucchini.
• Snap beans –tender and tasty Rattlesnake (green with purple stripes) and Golden Bacau, a flat Italian yellow bean. We like these flash sautéed in a fine olive oil, with a dash of seasoning…addictive!
• Sweet Fry Peppers- Blend of Fushimi, Carmen red Italian sweet peppers and small lunchbox style sweets. Great raw or cooked.
• Sungold Cherry and heirloom cherry Tomatoes- Ka-Pow!A juicy, sweet explosion your mouth. In your bag you will find sun gold varieties (which should be a deep orange when ripe), as well as a few unusual green (these are supposed to be green when ripe!!), striped and other colored heirloom cherries. These are ripe!
• Shiitake Mushrooms –of course keep in fridge, but plan your menu to include these this week!                                                                                                 
• Eggplant

Enjoy!

Johnny and Leah