Farm News Week 2, 2026

June 10th, 2026

Burst the Bubble

Whether we’re conscious of it or not, we all live in our bubbles. We have our family bubbles, our work-culture bubbles, our hobby-culture bubbles and certainly our political bubbles. We love the safety of our bubbles and that they feel so comfortable and familiar and we often times don’t have to work so hard to understand this complicated world when we think we’ve got it mostly figured out if we just stay rooted right where we are. But sometimes, I’m not sure how you all feel, I get a little bored when I’m in the same bubble for too long. I start to want to explore new horizons. I want to change the station. Talk to a new person I’ve never met before. Consider a new perspective. Is it possible that we are also stuck in our food bubbles? Do you ever go to the grocery store and find that you buy the same fruits and vegetables over and over again and make the same recipes over and over again?  Would you like to try new flavors and become a more adventurous cook?

My sense is that you do. You signed up for a CSA Share in hopes it would encourage you to try new foods or eat more vegetables. Our food bubbles are real! I know because I spent most of the winter cycling through my same top-15 recipes over and over again that are tried and true recipes that I know my kids will eat. I had so many storage veggies in the cooler plus a limited selection of frozen vegetables that when I went to the grocery store, we just bought apples, oranges, bananas and maybe some lemons and occasionally some celery or cilantro. Our long, Wisconsin winters can feel like ruts in more than one way.

A share in an Community Supported Agriculture farm will surely encourage you expand your food boundaries. This is a brave and courageous choice of yours which I applaud and commend you for! But now the work begins. It’s up to you to dust off those cook books, click on new recipes, scroll for inspiration and allocate the time for making dinner a priority in your life. I’ll do my best to find recipes that look amazing to me. Recipes I know CSA members have loved in the past, recipes market-goers have shared with me. Recipes that are trending or just look absolutely delicious. Just as I believe in my heart that there is good in everyone we meet, I also believe that each and every vegetable is delicious if it is only prepared properly.

I am only the farmer, in the simplest classification. But I am also here to serve as your muse. Your inspiration. Your motivation to pull out your cutting board and try something new. Don’t let your Pac Chois and your salad turnips and your kohlrabi’s go to waste this summer because they’re less familiar. Trust and know that there are delicious ways to get all of these healthy veggies into your body. Start making a healthy veggie dip, keep the tortillas or grains on hand you know you love to eat your veggies with. Stock your pantry with high quality rice vinegar, balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar, and olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, and sesame oil. Keep your favorite seeds on hand like sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, peanuts, slivered almonds and more!

Succeeding on your CSA journey and making the most of your CSA share is possible. This experience has the potential for you to leave your food bubble. Your food comfort zone can be stretched in new and wonderful ways.

What’s in the Box?

Radish- Cherriette Radishes in the spring are so crunchy and delicious! Radish greens are even edible too if you’re really into saving and eating every last bit! Store radishes in a plastic bag in the fridge to preserve moisture.

Hakurai Salad Turnips- If you’re new to these, they’re nothing like what you think they are! These very special turnips are buttery and smooth yet also crunchy like a radish-without the spice. They’re lovely slivered onto salads, match-sticked and wrapped into your spring rolls, or even sauteed into a stir fry.
Herb Pack- Thyme, Sage, Rosemary and Oregano are the herbs in this herb pack. Can you tell which is which? There is nothing like fresh herbs growing right outside your kitchen door when you need them most. We want for you to have access to the freshest herbs this summer. Plant them in a sunny spot outside and give them plenty of water and maybe a little compost as well and watch them grow! They could also be planted in a container with very fertile soil and set in a sunny place.
Asparagus- One pound bunches of organic asparagus. Asparagus is the one and only item we buy for our CSA boxes from a different farm. They are certified organic and come from Spears R Us by Wisconsin Dells. We feel like it wouldn’t be Spring CSA Boxes without asparagus. This is the final week of Asparagus.
Pac Choi- These are greenhouse grown Pac Choi from our upper greenhouse. They are such a special, rare, Spring treat. Pac Choi are difficult to grow in the Spring because asian greens are loved by all kinds of bugs. We grow them under row cover in the greenhouse and they always do well in the
Red Buttercup Lettuce– These delicate heads of lettuce are also greenhouse grown in soil. Buttercup varieties of lettuce are only possible to grow in the Spring and Fall when the temperatures are mild and not. They don’t have the heat tolerance that the lettuce we grow in the summer has.
Spinach– We tried a new variety of lettuce this Spring called Macarthur and WOW! It was a very productive variety that did very well on our farm! We were thrilled to have been able to give you all 1 pound of spinach again this week!

Strawberries- Pints for every box. We had heavy rain this week and some berries could have been a little dirty. We’re very sorry if you got a few berries with dirt on them, just rinse them and enjoy! Berries should be kept refrigerated if you keep them that long!
Next Week’s Best Guess: Radishes, Hakurai Salad Turnips, Lettuce, Kohlrabi, Strawberries, cilantro?, swiss chard or kale, over-wintered potatoes.