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And then there was four

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And then there was four

As you already know, our biggest news is the birth of our son, Quinlan! We had a home birth in Kirkwood at Holly's mom's house, in the same room Mira and, many moons ago, Holly were both born in. Holly's sister is a midwife, and delivered both Quin and Mira. We stayed at the house for about a week to recuperate and enjoy the love and support of family. Randy's mom was in town to visit, and she was able to stay at the farm and keep all the animals fed and cared for while we were busy caring for our new baby. Holly and Quin are still taking it easy for the next couple of weeks, but they will be back at market soon! In the meantime, Randy will be doing market duties. 

We returned from our away time to find more huckleberries than we knew what to do with! We decided to experiment with a vanilla huckleberry kombucha flavor, which turned out super delicious (we will have a limited amount available at market). Our peppers and tomatoes are also in full swing, but the mice are still getting all of our ground cherries. The peppers you will be getting are sweet peppers, but most of the varieties don't look like a bell pepper. We grew sweet banana, cubanelle, and cono de toro, which are all producing well, and are all long tapered green or light yellow peppers

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Spectacular Solanums

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Spectacular Solanums

This week your bags are full of solanums, or members of the nightshade family! This family includes tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant, huckleberries, and ground cherries. Several of you already got to try huckleberries, but if you didn't last week, you will this week! These can be thrown in pancakes or muffins, fruit salad, smoothies, salad, on top of oatmeal, yogurt, or cereal...the possibilities are endless! Most of you are also getting tomatillos, a versatile member of the nightshade family most commonly known for its prevalence in Mexican dishes. And indeed, they are delicious in salsa or guacamole, or added raw or cooked to burritos, tacos, or enchiladas. But we also like them fresh in salads, thrown in with cucumbers and onions in refrigerator pickles, or added to stir frys or summer pasta salads.

Ground cherries are one of our favorite solanums, and we were excited to share them with you, but, alas, so far some little field mice have beat us to them. We keep checking under the plants to find countless little paper wrappers (like a tomatillo, they have a thin paper covering) and the inside eaten out, and have seen mice running away from the scene of the crime. We've never really had to deal with mice as pests before, and are trying a small gauge wire fence, hoping that you will all be able to try ground cherries one day!

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