Plant Sale, all I can say is wow. Biggest turnout ever, selling 1,600 plants in the span of 3 hours. Thank you to everyone who came out. I think we got through it without too many snags. Definitely a lot to learn from moving forward, but we are getting better every year with it. Next year I think we are looking at expanding it out over two weekends to accommodate all the interest. Thank you!
What’s Fresh in the Sale Barn?
Meats. We have finished our Spring harvest of animals for you. 2 grass-fed local Angus steers and 25 pigs that we raised from infancy on our fields in the South Valley. All in all, I could not be happier with the quality and the quantity of meats that we have in our freezer right now. You will not find a better fed, more humanely raised group of animals than we bring you. Now comes the fun part of needing to transfer the meat from us to you.
Please help us out and try to stock up on some meats at your homestead. It really alleviates a lot of pressure from our overstocked warehouse. We want to continue to bring you the best quality for the lowest cost that we can. When we have to start building (buying) storage space, the price of the meats gets passed to you. So be a doll and take some of these amazing meats home with you.
Looks like the blood oranges from San Diego that I wrote about last week will be pushed back a week and we will try again next week. Weather did not help us out this time.
But what is coming through in spades are the greens from the farm. Just a gorgeous harvest time for lettuce, kale, chard, and radishes right now. This window between when the weather goes from warm to hot (mid-June) is our time to shine with greens. Enjoy for the next 4 weeks. After that, the sun hammers the greens too hard and we have to wait to bring them back in the fall.
Orange honey dew. So excited about this melon. No this is not some genetic freak grown in a lab. It is just a perfectly grown melon at the beginning of a yummy long summer for melons. We first started growing these crazy colored dews like 9 years ago and I loved them. To me, they have a hint of orange sherbert, or maybe that is just what my eyes tell me to taste. Do me a favor though and do not eat these melons chilled.
I think that refrigeration, although necessary, can really kill the true complexities of some fruits. Strawberries, peaches, and melons are on my short list of things that I like to eat at room temperature or even better yet, warmed in the sun. It is similar to why you don’t want to drink a complex red wine cold, all the flavors get locked up. So try it with these Orange Dews and eat them on the warmer side.
The Skarsgard Juice Bar. No we are not starting another business, but we have opened a new juice bar on our web site. Recently I have gotten back into drinking juice blends and I have to say that my old body feels great. We are all so busy and try like heck to do as our moms told us to do and “Eat your veggies.” But sometimes life doesn’t allow us the freedom to eat your veggies, so I want to make it easier to drink your veggies. We are working with some really great juice companies and bringing you incredible Organic produce, in the convenience of a bottle.
Folks, our bodies eat for two reasons. One is needing calories to fuel our engines to keep our bodies going. But two, and this is the one most often overlooked, is that we need nutrients. When you eat fast food, you get calories, but no nutrients. So then the body feels hungry (for nutrients) but is not in need of more calories. People then eat more food trying to satiate this hunger, but will never feel full without the nutrients to make the body happy.
This leads to obesity etc. The juices hit your body with the nutrients you need to not feel so hungry. Obviously getting all your nutrients from food is ideal, but I encourage you to play with these juices too and see how your body feels.
Salud, Farmer Monte