Fresh From the Farm (June 5)

Greeting from Salem Road Farms,
Hi, this is Young Farmer A sitting in for mom today.  The week of dry finally broke into a couple small thunderstorms and everything is growing like mad, especially the weeds.  I am done with school, and I can feel my destiny rising around me.  Anyway, fresh from the farm this week we will have tons of lettuce, broccoli raab, spinach, broccoli, two varieties of kale, and komatsuna, plus more.  Fresh herbs consist of: tarragon, rosemary, oregano, thyme, sweet and thai basil, lemon verbena, lemon balm, and spearmint. There will also be bedding plants.

I helped pick the garlic scapes this week.  Well, I didn't really pick them, I just carried the bucket and my mom picked.  Garlic scapes are the immature flower stalks of a hard-neck garlic.  They are disappearing from our farm to your fork, so you get to enjoy the Roasted Garlic Scapes.  I have been taking pictures of the farm with my new camera, and got some nice pictures of the garlic scapes in their natural habitat.  If you are new to garlic scapes, just stop by and learn more.

We also will have grass-fed Black Angus beef.  There will be chuck roasts, T-bone steaks, rolled round roasts, hamburger, flat-iron steaks, liver, rump roasts, club steaks, ribeye and porterhouse steaks.  Plus, there will be bags of dog bones for our furry, four-legged friends.  We have 1/2 of a Grass-fed Black Angus beef available for custom-cut.  This will be the last of the split-half or half beeves until late this fall.  Send us an email if you're interested in more information.

The store is still open Tuesday-Saturday 10-6.  We will also be at the Oxford Farmer's Market Uptown this week with our fellow vendors.  So try to stop by and say hi this week.

Thank you for your continued support.
Young Farmer A
Salem Road Farms

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