Aug 4

This week's CSA boxes were beautiful (again!). Carrots, cauliflower, summer squash, zucchini, cukes, perpetual spinach (it's actually a variety of chard, not spinach), sweet corn and tomatoes! Yum!

This week is Cynthia's last week on the farm. We will all miss her and her hard work. We've had some great conversations and lots of laughs together. I guess it is customary for the interns to pick the menu for one of their last dinners on the farm. She chose a vegetable lasagna with white sauce, garlic bread and cheesecake for dessert. It was all so good! For the lasagna, we used an Alfredo sauce with ricotta cheese melted in, and layered it with slices of eggplant, zucchini and tomato, and a sauteed mixture of corn, peppers, onion, garlic and shredded carrots. All the veggies except the onion and peppers were from the farm! "Eating Local" doesn't get more local than that!

Oh, and the homemade cheesecake had a raspberry sauce with berries from the farm, too! Delicious!

The weather forecast for tomorrow is: Beautiful. Less humid, mostly sunny, a little bit cooler. We also have live music scheduled, so we are expecting big crowds for Pizza Night. We're thinking of planning for 120 dough balls. We'll see if that's enough!