August 5th, 2009 by Margie

Dear Vegetable Husband Customer,

This week is the beginning of August and tonight is the full moon.  Your food is unseasonable once again.  We have beautiful mixed lettuce from Rashid at Truly Living Well Farm, as well as his vine-grown spinach once again.  The hard search for tomatoes paid off because we are going to have two types of roma tomatoes to choose from this week.  The small ones are as sweet as the sun golds you enjoyed a few weeks ago.  I will keep searching each week to see who is still producing tomatoes despite the hardships this year.

We are coming into a season change so food is more difficult to find as the farmers are plowing in their summer crops and beginning to plant for the fall.  Thank goodness for diversity because our community did not all plant at the same time.  I am finding that while some farmers have little to offer now, others still have several items growing.  Each week, I hold my breath and have faith that the food will come and so far it has.

Speaking of, I would like to thank all of you that have been doing this for a while.  This week we will celebrate our one-year anniversary.  Vegetable Husband thanks you and all the farmers thank all of us!!  As my 7-year-old neighbor would say, give yourself a round of applause for going local.  Imagine how many dollars we are taking from large corporate grocers and giving to our own community as we eat healthier.  That calls for a toast.  I am actually putting together a fall trip to the farms September 13th for us to do just that. I will give more details as I arrange them.  I am pricing a bus for all of us and a few coolers of champagne for the brunch in the fields…sound interesting?  I hope so!

Below is your list of goodies for this week:

Stringless green beans
Marketmore cucumbers
Roma tomatoes large
Roma tomatoes baby
Mixed lettuce
New Zealand variety Spinach
Arugula
Potatoes
Peppermint

Eat good and stay cool…and remember I am always happy to TALK FOOD!

Namaste,
Margie Thorpe