Dear CSA-ers,
Don't forget, pick up today in Vancouver is between 6:30 and 7:00, Fisher's Landing at 7:30, Farm is, as usual anytime after 4:00

Today's share should include:

A De Morges Braun red lettuce and either an Italienischer green oak leaf lettuce or an Esmarelda pale green butter lettuce

Three fourths pounds french filet beans

About Three fourths pounds small walla walla onions

Farm Shares Should include nearly a pound of broccoli or cauliflower

Town shares should include 11 or 12 carrots.

FRENCH FILET BEANS  For the uninitiated our beans are "french filet" or haricot verts variety.  They are generally smaller and tenderer than your average green bean.  They require very little cooking, "just kiss them with the steam" some say.  Of course if you don't like them squeaky, cook them just a little longer.  They are also excellent for stir frying, just blister the skin in hot oil.

ABOUT THE ONIONS.  Just a bit of farm trivia.  Today's onions are from the same seed and were sprouted at the same time as the large onions you have received in the past few weeks.  The difference:  Today's onions were planted out in the field in the fall, as is recommended with walla wallas, the previous week's onions were held back in the green house all winter and grew into thick stemmed transplants.  When they hit the freshly amended soil, this spring they took off, while the fall planted struggled through the winter in soil that was being leached and compacted by rain.  So, next year...

CARROTS.   We're not sure that this week's carrots are our usual super sweet mokum variety.  They maybe another variety that is supposed to be a good fall carrot.  We think there will be some more mokums coming as the season progresses.

A COMMUNITY OF SUPPORT.  We don't know if you all had a sixth sense that we had a rough week last week, but the expressions of appreciation, concern and the great advice on training our new dog really warmed our heart.  We received two batches of cookies, a jar of cherries from our community's crazy canner, olives and strangulating pasta from our globetrotting development consultants, the perfect solution for getting the dog to pee-pee-awd (our command) from the community dog trainer,  a special visit from Gunner, and lots of other advice and just asking how we are.  Thanks for your awesome support.

And until next week, stay cool and bon appetit.