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July 16 growing season update & Turnip Salad Recipe


Wow things are growing! I am not sure what is growing faster the weeds or the vegetables. Marianna (White Pine Farm CSA Member) and I have been trying to think of a chant we can use to tell the weeds not to grow and to let only the produce grow, but the only chant we could come up with involved hand language that said pull weeds and ignore produce.

The nights have been cold (down to 46 degrees last night) so the tomatoes are very unhappy. They like the temperatures to be up in the 70’s for 24 hours each day for several days to ripen and have that maximum fresh-picked Michigan tomato flavor. We are picking only a few tomatoes. No one, except for our neighbors dog, will get tomatoes this week. The pup snuck into the hoop house, took a tomato, and came up to me wanting to play fetch!! Now we are on dog alert rather than just rabbit and deer alert.

The other day strong winds gusting to 50 mph blew a large limb down on our 4-wheeler and as we surveyed other damage we found that they knocked the onion plants over so we will be harvesting those and putting them on the market a little earlier than normal, once the onion plants get knocked down they do not grow larger. The walla wallas were getting to be a good size and we were going to be harvesting anyways, you now can look forward to a lot of tasty sweet onions.

On Monday our (White Pine Farm) Organic Certification inspector came by and was impressed with our farming operation as well as the CSA Farmers Market operation. White Pine Farm is also serves as home base for CSA Farmers Market and without Dales and Mine (Marian) tireless work CSA Farmers Market would not exist. The other farmers do help out quite a bit, but for now, the bulk of the work rests on our shoulders.

Until Next Time
Marian Listwak