MOUNTAIN BOUNTY FARM NEWS

Week 31/52 of 2022

Dear Farm Members,

You might read the list of items for the vegetable share this week and think, wait, melons?! In the vegetable share!? You read that right, it's melon time. For the next few weeks, you’ll receive a variety of musk melons and watermelons in your vegetable share. We absolutely love growing melons and love sharing our favorite varieties with you.

We grow a little bit of each variety in order to get enough melons to give to all our members over several weeks. Here's a breakdown of the melon varieties you could receive in the next few weeks:

Hannah's Choice: Aromatic, very sweet, and full of flavor.
Athena: Athena cantaloupe has exceptional sweetness. The aromatics of this fruit are honey and floral with a sweet melon aroma.
Halona: Excellent flavor and muskiness with sweet orange flesh.
Visa: Green flesh, galia melon with wonderful sweetness due to the high Brix Content.

Ocelot: mini seedless watermelon with tiger striped rind. Mouth-watering flesh and firm, dense texture combine for an excellent eating experience—tastes like summer!
Mini Love: Sweet and firm watermelon. Distinctive, bright green rind with dark green stripes and dense, bright red flesh.
Natsu Cocoa: a new variety for us this year, Very uniform fruit with exceptional sweetness and dark green, tiger-striped rind. The epitome of summer — Natsu means "summer" in Japanese.

Enjoy your shares this week

Grace

THIS WEEK'S FARM BOX CONTENTS

REGULAR BOX:

Sweet Corn
Lettuce
Rainbow Chard
Tomatoes
Melon
Garlic
Arugula
Shishito Peppers (warning: some of these are spicy!)
Basil

SMALL BOX:

Sweet Corn
Lettuce
Chard
Tomatoes
Melon
Garlic
Shishio Peppers (warning: some of these are spicy!)

We've added some helpful information for different storage tips for fruits and vegetables to our website here. Let us know if you ever have questions about how best to store your produce.

SUMMER FRUIT SHARES (provided by Frog Hollow Farm)

Please double check the delivery list to confirm you are signed up for this share. You can sign up for shares starting next week here.

Please do not take a Summer Fruit Share if you are not signed up for one.