carrots

Does anyone else love when Anne of Green Gables smashes her slate on Gilbert Blythe's head? Priceless.

Anyway, apparently there's a carrot shortage this year. I read that with the big flooding rains we had, some of the seeds have washed away. I wonder if that contributes to this carrot shortage.

So Tuesday's share was:

• 1/2 a bag of mizuna
• 1 head of lettuce
• 2 pat-a-pan squash
• 8 leaves of chard
• 1/2 a bag of mix-n-match, so I picked a summer squash, scallions, turnips, and all the carrots that I could grab.
• 20 stems of flowers, pick your own. I'm way into red this season.
• Herbs, including basil, winter mint, and, finally, thyme.

Elena cooked a ton this week. She made pizza with some of the basil, chicken pot pie with some beets and carrots from the farm, and this extremely awesome drink. Take a gallon of water, add a couple springs of mint leaves and some honey, and you have a cool summer's day. It changes day-to-day as the mint sinks into the water.