The Little Farmers Blog!

Hi there everyone!

Although our summer has seemed to cool down a bit from July we still have new produce this week!

The boys are still busy in the fields harvesting our usual produce as well as some new produce such as: a variety of cucumbers, kholarbi,as well as green and yellow zucchini. But wait! It doesn't stop yet! According to farmer Chris and Brad we will have the start of our beet this weekend! Just in time to make homemade beets for the winter!

Since our each crop needs different attention at different times, some crops will produce better in certain conditions. Take for example our green onion and swiss chard, these particular crops are definitely at their best production rate with these conditions! Stop on by and see how big they have grown since the beginning of the summer! What a difference!

At this point of time we will be changing over the lots of our spinach, therefore we will not have any more until the middle of next week, but as always it is better to call ahead of time just to be sure that it is in stock for that particular day.

And with the summer coming to an end so is our short strawberry season. We are still picking a few berries to have in the market however it is getting down to the very last of them now. But don't worry! They will be back next year, and they will be just as delicious and plentiful as this years crops!

With each new crop that comes in, we try to cook something up, something that we never would have tried or even thought of on our own! So here's a few recipes that worked out delicious for us! Good luck!

Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup of Brown Sugar
1 egg
1 tsp of vanilla
1 1/2 cups of flour
1/4 tsp of salt
3/4 cup of oatmeal (optional)
1/2 cup of coconut (optional)
6 oz of chocolate chips
1/2 cup of nuts (optional)
1/2 cup of butter
1 cup of green zucchini, shredded

Directions:

Beat butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla together in a large bowl. Then, add the dry ingredients as well as oatmeal if you like. Make sure that you mix together well until all is smooth. Once smooth, add the remaining of the ingredients to the mixture. Then take a greased cookie sheet and drop spoonfuls of the cookie mixture all along the sheet. Then you bake them in the oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. And finally the best part, time to sit back and enjoy a yummy and healthy cookie! A great way to get kids to eat healthy!

Hope you enjoy the recipe! Keep updated for some more great recipes!

Your Friendly Little Farmer Bloggers,
Ashley, Kate and Susan