In This Issue

• What's in Your CSA Share this Week
• Flower CSA week 6!
• Fresh in the Farm Store
• What to Cook this Week - Grilled Salsa
• Notes From The Field
• Mushroom CSA Fall Sign Up - Last call!
• August Free Music Series 
• Fall Youth Programs - Enrollment continuing
• Gleaning at LexFarm
• Nourish Returns to LexFarm
• Save the Date for the Harvest Festival!
• LexDoingGood Community Event
• Sign up for the Lexington Conservation Department Newsletter
• Visiting the Farm
• Contact Us

What's in Your CSA Share this Week

Summer CSA Week 12 

• Chard
• Summer Squash
• Carrots
• Tomatoes
• Eggplant
• Jalapeno or Poblano peppers

From Riverland

• Watermelon or Cantaloupe
• Leeks 

Pick Your Own (PYO) this week

• Cherry Tomatoes
• Shishitos

Flower CSA week 6!

All produce is certified organic, unless specified otherwise.

All items are subject to change. We make our best guess about which veggies will be ready to harvest and when, but sometimes the weather and other factors do not cooperate.

Bring bags to take home your veggies!

Fresh in the Farm Store

This week in the farm store we celebrate the peak freshness of summer fruits and veggies. Try a delicious meal of fresh baked bread from Bread Obsession, LexFarm tomatoes and basil, Dancing Goat olive oil, and fresh Mozzarella House cheese.  

Please remember to bring your own bags! 

PYO Flowers

What to Cook this Week - Grilled Salsa

Ingredients

• 1 small head of garlic
• 3 or 4 roma tomatoes
• 1 or 2 heirloom variety tomatoes (Box Car Willies or Wisconsin 55 are good)
• 1 poblano pepper or 3 jalapeños or your choice
• 3 to 4 half-inch-thick slices of red onion, left intact
• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
• Handful of cilantro
• Splash of red wine vinegar
• Drizzle of olive oil

1. Fire up your charcoal grill. Let the coals get blazing hot.
2. Wash the vegetables.
3. Place the garlic off to the side of the coals where it will brown the paper skins but not burn the cloves. The garlic will take the longest to cook of everything. Let it get good and brown on all sides.
4. Now place the tomatoes and peppers right on the coals. Let them blister and blacken. Remove them to a tray. Let the juices collect in the tray.
5. Place the grill grate on the grill and grill the onions until they are caramelized and soft.
6. If you plan to grill more stuff, like a nice skirt steak, you will probably need to add a few more coals to the fire. You be the judge.
7. Peel the pepper, being careful not to spill or lose any pepper juices. I remove the seeds and, obviously, the stems. Put peeled peppers, tomatoes, onion, and peeled roasted garlic cloves into the bowl of a food processor. Add the tomato and pepper juices that collected in the bottom of the tray.
8. Add a two-finger pinch of salt, some pepper, half the cilantro, the red wine vinegar, and olive oil. Pulse the processor until the salsa reaches your desired consistency. I like this particular salsa smoother than most but still chunky. Taste the salsa and adjust the seasoning as necessary.
9. Pour into a serving bowl, garnish with cilantro, and serve.

Notes From The Field

We are in the thick of flipping beds this week. Transitioning fields from summer crops to cover crop or fall veggies. We plant two different mixes of cover crop on the farm. The first is oats and peas, which grows for the remainder of the season and dies in the winter. Next spring it will provide us with a great mulch to plant into. The other is rye and vetch, which roots in the fall and comes back in the spring. When we need to plant into the field we terminate it with a roller crimper and tarps so that it turns into a mulch. The timing of both of these cover crops is important, they need to grow a certain amount in the fall in order to provide adequate ground cover next spring. Keeping living plants in the soil for as much of the growing season as possible is important in keeping the soil microbiome alive and healthy!

Pictured to the left is our field crew flipping beds in our glass greenhouse. The cucumbers are coming out and fall leafy greens are going in! The glass greenhouse provides the plants with a little extra heat and protection from the elements as it gets colder. We'll be harvesting from here well into the fall.

- Miranda

Mushroom CSA Fall Sign Up - Last call!

August Free Music Series 

Sunset concerts. Bring your chairs/blankets and picnics and celebrate music’s magic in our fields.

Second concert: 
Wednesday, Aug 31, 6-7pm, (rain date-9/1)

Coffee to Cocktails, pop, bluegrass and roots music, on guitar, harmonica and mandolin.

Lisa and Jay Anas as the duo Coffee to Cocktails, play a wide variety of musical genres, such as classical, pop, bluegrass and roots on guitar, harmonica and mandolin. 

Lisa has been singing all of her life; in a wedding band, small combos, as a church soloist, and also solo and group classical and operatic recitals in several Boston area venues. Jay was nothing more than a guitar wanna-be for decades. Together for 20 years, they rarely ever paired their talents.

The onset of Covid-19 gave them lots of down time and their lives truly became one endless cycle of morning coffee to evening cocktails. They began rehearsing songs between the two beverage times. The name stuck.  You can also see them at area Farmers’ Markets, the Arlington Beer Garden and the Annual Arlington Porchfest.

LexFarm thanks the Lexington Council for the Arts for a grant which helps support this concert series. The Lexington Council of the Arts is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.  

Fall Youth Programs - Enrollment continuing

Youth program registration for fall 2022 is open! LexFarm youth programs offer many opportunities for hands-on learning and play in a beautiful farm setting. Based in the LexFarm learning garden, our classes expose children to all aspects of the growing cycle: planting, weeding, watering, and harvesting. We explore the wildlife at the Arlington reservoir, and visit with the animals at neighboring Silk Fields Farm. This coming fall we're excited to expand our offerings to serve children age 2 through 3rd grade, adding a new Art in the Garden class and extending our season by running classes from mid-September through early December. For questions, email Education@LexFarm.org. 

Join us for outdoor adventures on the farm this fall, and read more on our offerings here.                                  


Farm Friends Wednesday 9:30am, 2-3 y/o with caregiver, 6 wks, 9/21-10-26, Sold out
Farm Friends Wednesday 10:45am, 2-3 y/o with caregiver, 6 wks, 9/21-10-26, Sold out
Art in the Garden - Monday Morning , 4-6 yo, 9:30-11:30. 9/12-11/7
Farm Explorers  - Tuesday Afternoon Session 1, 4-6 yo, 2:45-4:45, 6 wks, 9/6-10/11, Sold out
Farm Explorers  - Tuesday Afternoon Session 2, 4-6 yo, 2:45-4:45, 6 wks, 10/25-12/6
Farm Explorers - Thursday Morning Session 1, 4-6 yo, 10-11:30, 6 wks, 9/8-10/13
Farm Explorers - Thursday Morning Session 2, 4-6 yo, 10-11:30, 6 wks, 10/27-12/8
Farm Scouts  - Friday Afternoon Session 1, K-3rd graders, 2:45-4:45, 6 wks, 9/9-10/14, Sold out
Farm Scouts  - Friday Afternoon Session 2, K-3rd graders, 2:45-4:45, 6 wks, 10/28-12/9, 1 spot left

Gleaning at LexFarm

Nourish Returns to LexFarm

Save the Date for the Harvest Festival!

LexDoingGood Community Event

Sign up for the Lexington Conservation Department Newsletter

Visiting the Farm

Contact Us