This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Beans: Surprise! We have one last week of fresh, crisp Strike green beans just for you. 

• Corn: Another great week of corn coming your way. There’s a chance for one more round next week, but this may be the last for the season so eat it up. 

• Tomatoes, New Girls: This week will be the last for the New Girl slicing tomatoes, and we recommend using them quickly. As of last week our field tomatoes rapidly developed blight first in the leaves, and then continuing into the fruit. It developed so quickly that we didn’t even notice in time for the tomatoes that went out later last week, and we apologize if you experienced softening or browning with your tomatoes last week. For this week we sorted both at time of harvest and during share packing to avoid the compromised fruits as much as possible, and we are also recommending you use or process your tomatoes with in the first day or two you get them this week. 

• Summer Squash: Enjoy your last round of summer squash this week. In just a few weeks time winter squash will makes its’ debut. 

This Week’s Share…Photo Coming Tuesday

Share Notes

• Beans: Enjoy fresh Strike green beans one last time this summer. A perfect match with this week’s sweet corn and tomatoes.

• Corn: Time for corn soup, corn salsa, and corn the way you like it because we have another big week in the works. Our plantings of Temptation, Sugar Pearl, and Luscious are all popping after last week’s ample rain followed by the current heat. 

• Onions, Cortland: This week we make the switch to “storage” type onions. Storage onions are harvested in late August and cured (dried down), to be given out throughout the rest of the season. Our yellow storage onion this year is a variety called Cortland. Whole onions are best stored in a cool, dark place in the kitchen, and leftover pieces are best kept in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Basil: Time to get your pesto on one more time! This is the last big round of basil we will distributing this season, and as you will notice we included full plants.  While the plants are loaded with fresh fragrant leaves, you will need to be sure to remove any woody stems.   

• Corn:  Corn is here this week, and in a big way, as we have multiple plantings all coming into harvest at once. Enjoy the Luscious bi-color ears on the cob, or slice those kernels off and make your favorite corn dish.

• Cucumbers: Enjoy the refreshing crunch one last time, as this will be the last of the cucumbers for the season. 

• Kohrabi: After a long hiatus from the farm, we welcome back kohlrabi! It’s appearance in the share marks the beginning of a slow transition toward fall crops, and you will see kohlrabi again in several weeks.

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Corn: Our first planting of corn has been a bit unpredictable, so Sugarbuns will be going out on a rotation schedule this week. For those of you who missed out on corn last week, that will definitely be in your share this week.

• Onions, Walla Walla Sweets: Enjoy your last wallas of the season, as soon you will begin to see storage onions in your share.

• Potatoes, Carola: You may notice some surface damage on your potatoes this week, but just peel/cut any unsightly spots away and use as usual. We have included a hefty amount to make sure you still have plenty once you get through peeling. 
  

• Tomatoes: Where are they right? We have been wondering the same thing. We definitely have both slicing tomatoes and heirlooms planted, trained, and holding lots of green fruit in our fields, we’ve just been waiting on them to ripen up for harvest. Our tomatoes were transplanted out and subsequently trained a bit later than usual, but even with that we had expected to be harvesting from them by last week for your shares. We have just started to get the first small flushes of ripe fruit in the last week, and will be starting them on rotation in the shares this week. Thank you for your tomato patience, we have plenty of juicy, tangy summer sweetness on the way in September.

Mid-Season Pick-up Reminders

We are at the mid-point of the season, and with that we thought it was about time to remind you all of some pick-up site etiquette to keep in mind as you continue to pick-up and enjoy your share for the next 14 weeks of the season.

• Please COLLAPSE and NEATLY STACK your share container at your pick-up site.
• Please place while plastic lids in the recycling bin provided for you at your pick-up site.
• Please pick-up any vegetable debris you may have dropped while picking up your share.
• Please check-in on the clipboard each week, it is our only way of tracking who has (or hasn’t) picked-up each week.

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Basil: We’re going big on basil this week! Try making a batch of pesto and filling up an ice cube tray with the pesto. Place the ice cube tray in the freezer, and once pesto cubes have frozen completely dump them out of the tray into a freezer storage container/bag. Take out basil cubes out to thaw as you need them. One cube is enough for one to two servings. Pesto can be frozen for up to 6 months with cheese added, or up to year with no cheese added.

• Corn, Sugarbuns: Enjoy your first taste of summer sweet corn with the Sugarbuns variety in your share this week. Sugarbuns is the smallest eared of the five varieties we are growing this season, so it only gets bigger and better from here.

• Eggplant:  This week we will begin distributing Nadia (Italian Bell variety) and Listada (Italian Heirloom variety) eggplant in rotation with the Orient Express (Japanese) variety you have been seeing for the last few weeks. We will continue with this rotation of these eggplant types for several more weeks until they are finished for the season. 

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Eggplant, Orient Express: The eggplant in your share this week is a Japanese type called Orient Express. You will continue to see this type for a few more weeks, and soon the larger bell type will appear in your shares as well.

• Onions, Walla Walla Sweets: Enjoy your last sweet bites of Walla Wallas this week, as this is the round of these beauties for the season. 

• Potatoes, Carola: The variety of potatoes in your share this week is Carola, which are medium to large size tubers with sunny yellow flesh, creamy texture and exquisite flavor that is a pleasure, whether steamed, boiled, baked or fried.  
  

Thank You Potato Harvesters

Thank you to everyone who came out to the farm this past Saturday to help with potato harvesting and french fry feasting. We brought in nearly 2000 pounds of Carola potatoes which will be distributed with your shares this week, and of course we enjoyed having everyone out here for a day on the farm.

This Week’s Share…Share Photo Coming Tuesday

Share Notes

• Garlic: Enjoy your last garlic from the farm this week.

This Weekend: SIO Annual Potato Harvest Party & French Fry Feast

Saturday August, 10th 10am-2pm

Join us for our annual Potato Harvest Party & French Fry Feast. This is a very kid friendly event, and in addition to potato harvesting we’ll be cooking up fresh from the field french fries and have sprinklers running to cool you down. Please bring a potluck dish to share, as well as blankets and/or chairs for lunch, and a water bottle to keep hydrated.  Join us anytime during the event, even just for lunch!

• 10am-12pm Harvest Spuds
• 12pm-1pm Farm Tour
• 1pm-2pm Potluck Lunch

Location:

Sauvie Island Organics (Farm Fields)
13615 NW Howell Park Rd
Portland, OR 97231

Parking: When you turn right onto Howell Park Rd. drive down the short hill and you can park in the grass field directly on your left just past the mailboxes. Then walk up the road another 100 yards and you’ll see the sign for Sauvie Island Organics at the end of our driveway. Make your way to the end of our gravel driveway and someone from the farm will be there to greet you.

Going on Vacation?

We offer two weeks of Vacation Rescheduling. If you know you will be away for a certain week of pick-up please let us know the date, and which week you would like to receive your double share (double shares exclude Thanksgiving Week). We need at least 24 hours notice to hold a share from delivery, and 1 week advance notice to schedule a double share. You can contact us by email at csa@sauvieislandorganics.com or in the office at 503.621.6921.

If you will be away for more than two weeks we encourage you to contact a friend/family/co-worker to come pick-up in your place. If finding a replacement is not possible please let us know and we will donate your share.

Sending a Friend/Spouse/Neighbor/Co-worker to Pick-up Your Share?

Great! We love when other people have the chance to pick-up your share. It’s also important to make sure your replacement has all the details for pick-up, including your Share Type, the location and time for pick-up, and what to do with the containers. Please email us at csa@sauvieislandorganics.com or call the office (503.621.6921) and we are happy to set up your replacement with all the information they need to successfully pick-up your share.

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Carrots: Make sure to give your carrots an extra thorough scrub this week, our root washing machine is out of commission for the week so they received a spray rinse, but may be are likely to have some lingering dirt.

• Green Beans or Eggplant: Just as we started out with the cucumbers and summer squash on rotation, the same will be true for Green Beans and Eggplant starting this week. All shares will receive one or the other this week, and the rotation will continue into next week. 

Your Invited to the SIO Annual Potato Harvest Party & French Fry Feast
Saturday August, 10th 10am-2pm

Join us for our annual Potato Harvest Party & French Fry Feast. This is a very kid friendly event, and in addition to potato harvesting we’ll be cooking up fresh from the field french fries and have sprinklers running to cool you down. Please bring a potluck dish to share, as well as blankets and/or chairs for lunch, and a water bottle to keep hydrated.  Join us anytime during the event, even just for lunch!

• 10am-12pm Harvest Spuds
• 12pm-1pm Farm Tour
• 1pm-2pm Potluck Lunch

Location:

Sauvie Island Organics (Farm Fields)

Parking: When you turn right onto Howell Park Rd. drive down the short hill and you can park in the grass field directly on your left just past the mailboxes. Then walk up the road another 100 yards and you’ll see the sign for Sauvie Island Organics at the end of our driveway. Make your way to the end of our gravel driveway and someone from the farm will be there to greet you.

Calling All CSA Share Containers

Help the farm by returning any CSA Share Containers you may have accumulated so far. We are charged a fee for each container that is not returned after 30 days, and appreciate your help in returning them in a timely manner. Thank you in advance.

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Onions, Walla Walla Sweets: As the name suggests, these onions are much sweeter than your typical white or yellow storage onion. They can be used in any recipe calling for onion, but try using them in recipes that will let their flavor shine through. Because they fresh onions (as opposed to a storage onions) they should be kept in the refrigerator.

• Summer Squash or Cucumbers:  This week  we continue with the rotation, which means some shares will receive summer squash and other cucumbers. We keep careful records of what crops and how much is delivered each week, and make sure to that each member receives the same total of each crop that goes on rotation through out the season.

• Turnips, Hakurei: Your turnips this week are tops off, and these will be the least distribution of these until they return again in the fall. If you haven’t tried pickling these white beauties yet try it out with this last round.

Join our friends at the Sauvie Island Center for the 5th Annual Barn Dance & Barbecue

This Week’s Share

Share Notes

• Onions, Torpedo Red: This fresh onion is an Italian heirloom variety, and gets it’s name from the elongated shaped bulb that resemble a torpedo or spindle. Its flesh is sweet, mild and tender. 

• Summer Squash or Cucumbers:  This week some shares will receive summer squash and other cucumbers, and we will follow with this rotation into next week. We keep careful records of what crops and how much is delivered each week, and make sure to that each member receives the same total of each crop through out the season. 

Your Invited to the SIO Annual Potato Harvest Party & French Fry Feast
Saturday August, 10th 10am-2pm

Mark your calendars to join us for our annual Potato Harvest Party & French Fry Feast. This is a very kid friendly event, and in addition to potato harvesting we’ll have fresh french fries at eat and sprinklers to cool you down. Please bring a potluck dish to share. Join us anytime during the event, even just for lunch!