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What's In My CSA This Week?

Our offerings this week are still heavy on a wide variety of greens. So load up on salads and get ready to top everything from pizzas, pastas, tacos, and rice bowls with greens, greens, and more greens. If you didn't get a chance to reserve your CSA subscription this season, you can buy individual boxes weekly on our website for pickup at farmers' markets or on the farm.

Serrated Leaf Arugula

 

Head Lettuce

 

Rainbow Chard

 

Baby Beet Greens

 

Edible Flowers (Radish)

 

Micro-Cilantro

 

Heirloom Lavender

 

Baby Garlic

 

 
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Recipe Ideas

 

Utilize culinary lavender in this easy compound butter to top on scones, biscuits or even steak!

 
Lavender Honey Compound Butter
 

Use up the rest of your kale and in-season strawberries in this salad with lavender

 
Strawberry Kale Salad with Lavender Dressing
 

Utilize baby beet greens in this crunchy, creamy and delicious side

 
Beet Green Chopped Salad
 

Don't toss your chard stems - pickle them for this crisp and sour treat!

 
Pickled Chard Stems
 

Rainbow chard finds its way into this surprising breakfast dish. Sprinkle with micro-cilantro

 
Harissa Shakshuka with Chard
 

More delicious salad ideas for our heirloom head lettuce

 
Herby, Seedy Salad with Tahini Dressing
 

Spicy radish flower complements smoked salmon in this summer salad

 
Smoked Salmon Salad with Radish Flower
 

Or use radish flower in place of chive blossoms in this delicate salmon dish

 
Poached Salmon with Radish
 

Try using lavender in this delicious dessert that we could eat for breakfast all day!

 
Lavender Blueberry Apricot Squares
 

Baby beet greens are sweet and less earthy than full-size beets 

 
Baby Beet Greens with Spicy Vinaigrette

Farmers' Markets 

 

Bellevue Crossroads 

Tuesdays, Noon - 6pm

 
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Kirkland Marina Park

Wednesdays, 3pm - 7pm

 
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And don't forget, you can place your pre-orders on our website starting every Thursday evening for pickup the following week at farmer's markets and on-farm. Deadline to place your orders is Sunday

Pre-Order Here

Around the Farm

This weekend we're getting ready to plant another succession of greens, roots and alluviums which means: bed preparation! Here is Bryan using a broadfork. This farm implement is key to a regenerative, no-till farming practice. It aerates the soil without disturbing the microbial life. Meaning: better, bigger vegetables!

Say hello to our chickens. We're expecting that they will start laying eggs any day now. If they don't, Bryan might start threatening to eat one ... here chicky chicky!

A row of pumpkin bordered by two rows of dried corn, this is our modified "milpa." Milpa is a Mexican style of companion planting. Behind this we will be planting a more traditional milpa which ends up looking like a delicious jungle. 

This week we built out our wash station. It's mobile, efficient and just the way we like it. Bryan tends to change his mind frequently as he is constantly trying to improve efficiencies. So, dry racks on wheels allow us to adapt and improve easily.

Our culinary lavender ready for butters, teas, syrups and more.

A few weeks ago we planted some purple bravo radish. The plants bolted early so we let them go to flower resulting in this absolutely delicious edible radish flower that we've been sprinkling on everything from salads to stir frys.

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