Summer 2023 - Week 11
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🌻Good Morning Summer CSA Members! 🌻
It continues to be a rough year of growing for farmers in Colorado! We had another tornado warning (it missed us thankfully 🙏🏼) and we are up to 7 bouts of hail 😭. Despite all of this AND the cooler-than-normal temps, we have had a beautiful season of veggies! 😁🥕🫑🍅
This week will still be a lighter number CSA as we have had this summer so far, but we are grateful to have been able to keep up on production this year, even if it isn't the abundance we are used to getting in the summer months. We are expecting this to change in the next couple of weeks with more as we get further into August. 👍👍👍
🌼Thank you all for continuing to support our farm and community!🌼
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💡💡💡Bring a Friend and check out Ahavah Community Market every Friday 9AM-12PM at Ahavah Farm (7545 Log Rd, Peyton) during our CSA pick ups!
🍅This week is National Farmers Market Week! Come and check out our vendors and the specials they are running on 8/11 and get 10%off at our Farm Stand!
👩🏼🌾We have some new vendors starting this week as well so please come give them support!
🌽Items for sale this week will include: Non-GMO Corn, Cantaloupe and Palisade PEACHES and Eggs!
🌱🌱🌱We still have a few spaces for drop in vendors week to week, so please apply if you would like to join us for the Markets or Festivals! manager@ahavahfarm.com.
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🌱Sign up for our Farm Tour next week, August 18th 9AM!
🌱Learn how we grow and harvest and run our CSA farm in one of the harshest climates!
🌱Get all of your gardening/growing questions answered!
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🤔Did You Know that all of our packaging is compostable?!
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!!! PLEASE SHARE with your neighbors and friends!!!! 👈🏼👈🏼👈🏼
If anyone chooses a farm pick up when they purchase a Fall share, they qualify for additional discount for CSA shares as well as at our booth at the Farmers Market!
Auto Renewal Members with a farm pick up will also receive this additional discount! Please let Jessie know if you would like to switch to a farm pick up moving forward.😁
contact@ahavahfarm.com
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Grab your Fall share today!
🌻Don't miss out on a Fall CSA share!
Shares are limited during the cooler months so sign up while they are available!
The Fall season will begin the first week of October and will go on for 12 weeks.☺️👍
www.ahavahfarm.com/csa
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💡💡💡Don't forget that we sell extras every week! 😁
👍We Take SNAP!
Use your EBT card for your purchases and receive 50% off.
🌱ALL PRICES ARE SUGGESTIONS AS WE OFFER PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN-AFFORD!
For Payment: Cash or Check at the drops or the balance can be sent via PayPal to contact@ahavahfarm.com or Venmo to Ahavah Farm LLC or by credit card or regular debit cards via Square!!!
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The need for healthy and pure food is higher than ever!
Use our QR code or the link below, Bring a Buck to your pick up location, or add Ahavah Community Initiative to your King Sooper's Shopper's Card Rewards. Every little bit will make a big difference to feed Colorado Families.
💡DON'T FORGET💡
Ahavah Community Initiative (ACI) is always fundraising to be able to offer free or subsidized CSA memberships to families in need.
😃 Bring A Buck to your pick-up location and help feed struggling families in our community!
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What's in your bags this week?
Week 11: Aug 10th & 11th
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This Week's Harvest
As always, nothing is guaranteed. These are the items that are "in season" and are anticipated to be ready this week (which may or may not be available at the CSA).
Small = 4-6 items per week ($25/wk)
Medium = 7-9 items per week ($35/wk)
Large = 10-12 items per week ($45/wk)
Lettuce - Beautiful lettuce! We have gorgeous head lettuce and lettuce mixes! Great for everything from salads to sandwiches and lettuce wraps!
Slicing Cucumbers- These juicy, tender cucumbers are characterized by their longer size and dark green colors. These cucumbers are grown to be served raw for snacking, salads, or sandwiches.
Beets- You can use cooked beets in salads, to make hummus or to blend into smoothies. They can be diced for slaw, quartered for a grain bowl or mashed to make a dip or spread.
Summer Squash!- We are finally able to harvest summer squash! You will enjoy roasting our delicious varieties including crooked neck yellow squash and zucchini. Nothing beats eating a fresh picked squash!
Cilantro- Raw cilantro leaves are the most powerful in aroma and are commonly added to salsas, chutneys, pesto, marinades, and dressings. You can even add them to your salads for an extra boost of flavor!
Darkibor Kale- The triple curled, rich green leaves of this top-quality variety are mild, juicy-sweet and tender: a perfect choice for vitamin-rich, garden fresh kale salads, kale “chips”.
Fennel- Fennel has long been used as a flavoring agent, a scent, and an insect repellent, as well as an herbal remedy for poisoning and stomach conditions. It has also been used as a stimulant to promote milk flow in breast-feeding mothers. The leaves can be chopped and used to flavor salads, dressings, marinades and sauces. They tend to have a slightly more citrusy flavor than the base.
Radishes- Radishes are most often served raw, halved and sprinkled with salt, shaved into salads, layered over butter-smeared baguettes, or shredded into slaws. They also can be marinated with olive oil and lemon and mint for a refreshing salad, and they can be pickled with a classic vinegar-sugar-salt mix.
Arugula- You can use arugula just like you would other leafy greens, especially when you want a spicy bite. Try it on top of pizzas, in your salad, pasta, or soups and sauces. It makes a particularly delicious pesto!
Swiss Chard- Chard is high in many antioxidants and can be steamed or sauteed, and it's great in soups, stews, casseroles, frittatas and quiches. Young leaves can be eaten raw in salads. Chard always has green leaves, but the stalks can be a variety of colors.
Mustard Greens - These are simply the BEST mustard greens on the planet. The variety is called Red Splendor and you will never find this in the store: Mild, smooth and absolutely delicious! CLICK HERE FOR RECIPES!
Chives- Since chives have a milder flavor, they're perfect to add to soups, dips, mashed or baked potatoes, fish, seafood dishes and omelets. Heat destroys their delicate flavor, so add chives to dishes at the last minute. To maximize their taste, thinly slice, chop or snip with kitchen shears before using.
Scallions- Top off soup, bake them into quick biscuits, tuck them into sandwiches, bake them into loaves of bread, etc. The possibilities are endless!
Turnips & Beautiful Turnip Greens - the turnips were a little small this week, but that just means that they are sweeter! But the greens...those greens are so beautiful and so tasty! Buttery and LOADED with nutrition, we love to sauté these amazing greens and eat them alone with some garlic and onion or add them to eggs or a stew. The flavor isn't just amazing, the calcium bioavailability is beyond any other food on earth😲!
Carrots- The best carrots around! You will be amazed by how much flavor our carrots pack. Many of our members have commented that they cannot go back to store-bought after tasting our pure, beyond organic carrots!
Tomatoes- We are finally getting some tomatoes harvested! You will love our beautiful, heirloom, delicious varieties 🍅🍅🍅
Peppers!!!- We are FINALLY able to harvest a mix of our peppers! Bell and Marconi peppers are our most popular and are wonderful stir-fried, raw in salads, roasted and more!
Barley Wheat Grass - Many of our members absolutely love our barley grass and use it religiously. We hope you take the time to learn and enjoy this most amazingly nutritious green! More nutritious than wheat grass and less bitter, barley grass is used mostly for juicing. However, I, Yosef (and many of our team members) love to use it as an energy and nutrition
Dried Herbs - Basil, dill, mint and fennel (our herb room smells like heaven!😇).
Radish Microgreens - Next to the barley grass and the sunshoots, radish microgreens are some of the most nutritiously-dense items we grow on the farm and not only that, but during our annual survey last year, they ranked as the #1 most requested and love item we grow! They have a fantastic bite to them, last considerably long in the refrigerator and are beautiful in appearance.
Pea Shoots - One of the most desired and sought after items we provide are these pea shoots! Quite literally the best you added to any dish or salad. Our favorite way is to add them to stews and soups. A perfect topper too! Here are four fun ways to use Pea Shoots: http://blog.bostonorganics.com/4-fun-ways-to-use-pea-shoots
Broccoli Microgreens - Last week we told you that Radish Microgreens were the #1 most loved item we grow, well, these microgreens weren't on the list then! I have a sneaking suspicion that these microgreens are the real winners!
Sunshoots - Our sunshoots are certainly some of the nicest, most high-quality sunshoots you will ever find (that actually goes for all our microgreens). They are one of the most beloved items we grow as well and a regular staple to our CSA. Here are some ideas to use your sunnies this week: https://www.martinsgardenacf.com/sunflower-shoots-recipes
Living Herbs - We have an abundance of beautiful living herbs for you. Choose from cilantro, oregano, parsley and more. Each plant counts as one serving.
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