Full Harvest Farm, LLC ¼ cup Rapadura/Sucanat sugar, or dark brown 7112 County Road S sugar Hartford, WI 53027 2 Tbsp. brown mustard 262 673-6760 1 tsp. dill seed [email protected] Box #5 1 tsp. celery seed Newsletter #5 salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 3 August 2011 -Whisk the dressing ingredients together in a large bowl until combined. Rapadura/sucanat sugar looks like round, brown granules, and has a unique Contents taste. It does not dissolve as easily as other sugars, Basil so you will need to let the dressing sit for awhile so Beets, Golden & Red the liquid can be absorbed and break apart the Cabbage larger granules: 10-15 minutes should be enough. Cucumbers Dark brown sugar will dissolve quicker. Whisk the Kohlrabi dressing again before adding the vegetables to be Onions sure there are no more granules of sugar. Snow Peas Vegetables: Sweet Corn 8 cups shredded green and/or red cabbage, carrots, celeriac, kohlrabi, fennel bulb, radish, New Stuff: golden beets, cabbage. rutabaga, turnip, etc. Choice Box: green beans. ½ cup onion, minced Golden beets are a relatively new cultivar of beet. -Add to dressing and toss until all the vegetables They are a little sweeter and milder than red beets, but are dressed. Allow to sit at room temperature for they still taste like beets. They are good roasted or 30 minutes so the flavors meld. Serve. sautéed in butter with a little salt and pepper. I like to use just 2 Tbsp. of butter, low heat, scrub the beets but Last year, Barb Haley sent me this recipe: leave the skin on, sliced however you like, cover the “My son roasted the kohlrabi last week with just a little skillet and cook until done, about 15 minutes. Stir olive oil, salt pepper and parmesan cheese for the last them a few times. I like my beets cooked all the way couple minutes. (It was the 1st time we had ever tried thru, but not mushy. The stems and leaves on golden kohlrabi). He sliced the kohlrabi like fat potato slices. beets are also edible and taste like Swiss chard, whose He was truly excited to see more this week! Looking ancestor they are. Choose the better-looking leaves to forward to next week! Thank you.” Thanks, Barb. eat. At this point in their growth, the green beans should be When you unpack your box, please cut the tops off of loaded with beautiful beans. Unfortunately, there your onions and set them out to air dry. We’re finding seems to be some disease attacking them, causing that spraying off the bunches causes some of the stems small, brown spots on the casing and severely limiting to become mushy. That could lead to them breaking flower production. The disease doesn’t seem to have down, and we don’t want your onions to turn moldy. affected the taste, but it means a small amount in your If they’re good and dry, they should keep at room boxes this week. temperature for a longer time. From now on, we’ll be It’s hard to beat cabbage in the calorie count, with only cleaning our onions by peeling off the outer layer or 2, 15 per 1-cup serving, yet it still contains reasonable not by spraying them off. nutritional value with vitamins A and C, calcium potassium and magnesium. In some countries, Field Notes cabbage is used as a digestive aid and intestinal We’ve had close to 3 weeks of hot, humid weather. I cleanser. don’t like to think about living without air conditioning when it’s this humid for this long. Last week we got a Full Harvest Farm Coleslaw total of 1.2” of rain—much needed, considering how Serves 6-8 as a side dish hot it’s been. On the plus side, tomatoes, eggplant and Dressing: peppers like the heat, and tomatoes develop better ½ cup mayonnaise flavor because of it. ¼ cup apple cider vinegar Chuck is having quite a battle with flea beetles just now. They usually attack our young transplants, but are ignoring those (for the moment) in favor of broccoli plant leaves that are in flower. Another favorite dish: young, curly kale leaves, two things they’ve never targeted before. Go figure. We want you to see the field crew who plant, weed, harvest and box your vegetables every week. Here are these hardy souls:

From L to R: Wendi Haubrich, Drew Wilson, Nathan Krebs, Sam Krebs, and everybody’s favorite farmer, Chuck Frase. Not pictured is Victor Zivkovich, our “man on the tractor”, who was, well, on a tractor.

The Canadian thistle fight continues. Victor has been mowing the uncultivated fields regularly for the last month to prevent any plants from dropping seed. This variety of thistle is a consistent invader of our fields and a real nuisance. Luckily for us, it seems to be susceptible to a bacterial infection that causes the tops to turn white, and the plant to gradually die. It’s unfortunate that more Canadian thistle doesn’t succumb to this beneficial condition. I can say, from experience, that pulling them when the ground is wet works over the long term. My House Garden has far fewer Canadian thistle 9 years later, than it did when we first rototilled the ground. They’re the reason I invest in a good pair of leather gloves every year. I only wish this solution was practicable for the farm, too. The cool is coming. Enjoy! Terry & Chuck