Well friends, the season is certainly changing! The planting frenzy hasn’t finished and the weeds have certainly arrived! Along with the cicadas! We had fun hunting them yesterday and found 136! (Update: we stopped counting!) The chickens LOVE eating them, though I wouldn’t try them personally.
We know it’s been a long week when we sit down to write the blog and it still says “week 4 ’, well now it’s week 5 already and time for the second meat pick up! We are so thankful for our local small butchers during a time when meat shortages and price increases could be around the corner again. It is taking more planning to schedule our butcher dates now, but we are thankful for the hands that process our animals for our community.
Last week our community lost a great man, and loving husband and father of 5 small children. If you feel led to help the Parowski family please support them here. We can arrange delivery to them if anyone wants to offer meals on Thursdays.
We have some great ideas for fast easy meals lately! We’ve been doing hamburgers with chopped ramps and garlic scapes. We usually skip the bun, but not the potatoes! Yesterday I had a lot of garden work to help the farmers with so I ran some potatoes through the slicer on the food processer and layered them with some plops of butter, a few cups of milk, salt and topped with herbs and some shredded cheese. I left them in the oven at 400 for about an hour and we came in a sautéed squash and called it a really good dinner for some tired farmers! For lunch we had a nice taco pie with a salad on the side. This time of year we really need easy but satisfying food!
We will be offering cheese cake, sugar cookies, rhubarb galette and maybe more this week! The cucumbers and squash are coming on strong now and the onions and garlic are right around the corner! Even a few tomatoes are ready! Wow, this time of year is so exciting!
Now for the best news yet…..the puppies are here! We’ve been busy taking care of them. What a blessing! The children have so much fun snuggling them! They will be outside for visiting in a few weeks! We love having the “farm-ily” help socialize them!
Blessings,
The Bakers