Kitchen Garden Journal

• 1 lb Asian eggplant (Town Farm, Northampton)
  1 bunch Thai Basil
  handful of Thai chilies
  1 pint shallots
  2 lb red potatoes
  1 lb broccoli
  1 bunch radishes
  ½ lb spicy greens mix
  1 baby butterhead lettuce
  1 bunch mustard greens

Deluxe Item: Nectarines (Apex Orchards, Shelburne, MA)

 * Note about stone fruit (such as nectarines):  If the fruit is still firm leave it on the counter (not in the refrigerator) for a day or two to ripen.

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• 1 bunch leeks
• 2 lb fingerling potatoes
• A mix of sweet peppers
• 1 Tendersweet cabbage
• 1 bunch Japanese sweet turnips
• 1 bunch white Russian Kale
• 2 heads garlic
• 1 bunch sage
• 1/2 dozen sweet corn (Warner Farm, Sunderland)

Deluxe Items: Ginger Gold apples from Clarkdale Fruit Farms

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photo by Candace Hope

• 1.5 lb heirloom tomatoes
• 2 lb federle tomatoes (our favorite sauce variety)
• 1.5 lb Walla Walla sweet onions
• 2 lb mixed potatoes
• 1.5 lb red beets
• ½ lb salad greens
• 1 bunch French breakfast radishes
• 1 bunch Swiss chard
• 1 bunch rosemary

Deluxe Item: Peaches from Clarkdale Fruit Farms, Deerfield, MA

By the way, Clarkdale's farm shop is open 7 days a week 8am-6pm and they offer one-peck Orchard Run (utility) boxes of freestone yellow peaches, great for freezing or jam. They're also harvesting several varieties of apples, pears and plums now, and there will be pick-your-own McIntosh apples later in the fall. 

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3lb heirloom tomatoes
1 red butterhead lettuce
1.5 lb fingerling potatoes
1 bunch Genovese basil
3 heads garlic
1 pint cipollini onions
2 lbs eggplant
1 cantaloupe

Deluxe items: Ozark Premier Plums from Apex Orchards, Shelburne, MA
½ dozen sweet corn from Warner Farm Sunderland

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• 1 pint multicolor cherry tomatoes
  3 lbs heirloom tomatoes
  1 romaine lettuce
  3 heads garlic
  A handful of chilies
  2 lbs Japanese eggplant (from Enterprise Farm)
  Thai & purple basil
  A mix of sweet peppers
• 2 lbs summer squashes    
  1 Pixie cantaloupe

Deluxe Item: Wild Blueberries (The Benson Place, Heath, MA)

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1 pint Sungold cherry tomatoes
2 lb heirloom tomatoes
1 lb cucumbers
1.5 lb Desiree pink potatoes
1 bunch parsley
2 small lettuces
1 bunch White Russian Kale
1.5 lb Chioggia beets
1.5 lb sweet red Tropea onions

Deluxe Items: Peaches from Apex Orchards, Shelburne, MA

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3 lb heirloom tomatoes
2 lb pickling cucumbers
3 lb white potatoes
2 lb carrots
1 fennel
1 bunch leeks
1 bunch cilantro
4 serrano chilies
1 bunch collard greens

Deluxe Items:
2 lb Yellow Japanese Shiro Plums (Bashista Orchards, Southampton)
½ dozen sweet corn (Warner Farm, Sunderland)

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• 2 lb heirloom beefsteak tomatoes
• 2 lb Boothby’s Blonde & pickling cucumbers
• 1 bunch Walla Walla sweet onions
• 2 lb baby red potatoes
• 1 lb cubanelle sweet peppers
• 2 lb summer squash
• 1 bunch basil
• 1 green and 1 red butterhead lettuce

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• 1/2 lb arugula
• 1 bunch white Russian kale
• 1 bunch white onions
• 2 lb middle eastern cucumbers
• 2 lb golden potatoes
• 2 lb multicolor beets
• 3 heads garlic
• 1 quart yellow beans
• 1 bunch rosemary

Deluxe Items:

• 1/2 dozen sweet corn (Warner Farm)
• 1 pint blueberries (Westfied, MA)

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• 1 qt. multicolor new potatoes
• 1 tendersweet cabbage
• 2 lb multicolor carrots
• 1 bunch red sweet Tropea onions
• 1 bunch dill
• 2 lb summer squashes
• 1/2 lb mixed spicy greens
• 1 red leaf lettuce

Deluxe Items:

• 1/2 dozen sweet corn (Warner Farm, Sunderland)
• 1/2 pint black raspberries (Czajkowski Farm, Hadley)

This is the 4th of July Share, celebrating potato salad, coleslaw, and red onions for your backyard burgerfest. God Bless America.

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