It has been an exciting week! Saturday was Harvest Fest at Bayfront Festival Park. It was great seeing all of you that stopped by our booth. We have also had a new crew member join the gang and an old crew member move on to great new things.
A note about peppers: The large pointy red peppers are a SWEET pepper variety named Carmen. The smaller yellow pointy pepper are a HOT pepper variety.
In your share this week:
Green Beans – Carrots – Celery – Cilantro – Cucumber – Garlic – Onion – Red Pepper – Green Peppers – Hot Peppers – Potatoes – Tomato – Zucchini
Here are pictures from our Harvest Fest booth! We moved a lot of produce on Saturday. Thank you to everyone who came out. Harvest Fest is hosted by the Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association.
Tomato and Pepper Chunky Salsa
Salsa is one of the joys of summer. It’s great as a snack with tortilla chips or on top of eggs. Luckily, salsa is very easy to make!
Ingredients
- 7 medium tomatoes
- 1 red bell pepper (the long pointed one)
- 1 small diced red onion
- 1 hot pepper
- ½ cup fresh cilantro
- 1–2 garlic cloves
- juice of 1 lime
- ½ tsp pepper
- ½ tsp cumin
- 1 tsp salt, or to taste
Instructions
- Finely dice the tomatoes, red bell pepper, red onion, hot pepper, garlic and cilantro. Combine in a large bowl and add lime juice and seasonings.
- Alternatively, process all ingredients in a food processor for 30 seconds.
- Store in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
Recipe based off the green creator..
Congrats to our former crew member, Emily, who is moving on to a great new job in her field. Emily has been with the Food Farm for two years and wrote last year’s newsletters.
This beautiful key lime pie was made in Emily’s honor by Charlie, a fellow crew member.
A great morning for spiders!
The first spider is a funnel-weaver spider with in her name-sake funnel web beautifully outlined in morning dew. This spider was found next to our celery rows. The picture doesn’t do justice to the unique 3D tunnel structure this spider builds. The second spider is a black and yellow argiope, also called a black-and-yellow garden spider, which may be the largest web-building spider in the northern United States. She was a big one! She was found feasting on a fly in her web that spanned one of the green bean paths. (We made certain not to disrupt her.) Many think because this spider is so colorful and large it must be dangerous, but in reality, they are shy and rarely venture off their webs. We appreciate these spiders eating the more annoying bugs for us!
For the farm crew,
Starr
Food Farm 