The Weekly Harvest: "Turning the river into food"

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Hello Folks, 

What a gift yesterday was - a nice cool day with clouds for us all to take a breather from the heat wave. It looks like heat will still be here, but yesterday your farmers were super thankful for a breather (and the crops as well). Farming teaches us to celebrate the now of the weather, of our current achievements, and to look and plan diligently for the future even though we know not what it will bring. Right now is that time on the farm that we celebrate the beautiful nourishing crops coming in from Spring planting while also diligently planning and planting so that our coolers and your fridges are full well into next March. I think we can all agree Tuesday was some seriously nice weather though!

New to the line up this week is a crop that is new to us, Red Long of Tropea (called Red Longs on the farm) - an Heirloom sweet onion which comes from Calabria on Italy's very southern tip. These elongated onions have a sweet, mild taste and are great for the grill, braising, caramelizing, salads, and general cooking. Also on the list this week is our heirloom hardneck garlic. Hardneck garlic has less and larger cloves with less wrappers which make them easy to peel. This variety, Duganski, have violet tinged cloves that burst with a fiery fresh flavor and then mellow out. Its purple striped skins make it even beautiful to admire on kitchen counter. Definitely pick some up as this years garlic crop was really good. 

This is the time of the season that my thoughts often turn to the river (the Cache La Poudre) as we irrigate nearly around the clock and are gifted this clean, abundant and cool water. We literally turn this amazing river of ours into food for you and your family. What a blessing to have water with which to grow good food on good land for our community. Cheers to that. 

Eat Local & Be Well, 
Nic and The Native Hill Crew

This Week's Harvest:

  • Salad Mix

  • Green Summer Crisp Head Lettuce

  • Red Romaine Head Lettuce

  • Carrots

  • Beets (red and gold)

  • Kale (curly and tuscan)

  • Rainbow Swiss Chard

  • Zucchini

  • Yellow Squash and Patty Pan Squash (Farm Stand-limited quantities)

  • Golden Cauliflower

  • Broccolini (Farm Stand-limited quantities)

  • heirloom hardneck garlic

  • Cucumbers

  • Red Long of Tropea heirloom Sweet onions

  • Napa and Personal Size Green Cabbage (Farm Stand only)

  • Basil

  • Parsley

  • Shiso

  • Lovage