I hope you all enjoyed your Fourth of July–whether that be an out-of-town trip, a fun barbecue, or fireworks. This is a great holiday to enjoy the warmer weather and spend our extra free time with friends and family. At Green Earth Harvest, one of our farm crew members (and owner of the flower bouquet business you see at pick-ups) hosted a veggie burger contest on Friday to celebrate.
At the farm, we’ve entered this week by harvesting our garlic beds. This is quite a task, as we have roughly eight beds and tens of thousands of garlic to pull from the ground. From there, we have piles of garlic along the beds, of which we separate the bulbs from the rest of the plant with clippers. The bulbs of garlic will be laid out on garlic cages for roughly a month before being dry enough to be offered at pick-ups. Compared to many of our other crops, garlic is a shining example of delayed gratification! These beds were planted in November 2024, pulled in July 2025, and can likely be expected in August or September 2025. Like many things we buy at the store, it can be easy to forget how long a process these crops go through before becoming available to consumers.
Aside from garlic, regular harvests of our vegetables, including carrots and kale, have continued. I am a big fan of the restaurant Sweetgreen, and my go-to order is the Super Green Goddess. Now that our kale production is ramping up, I’m hoping to have my first try at making my salad order at home. A lot of the ingredients from these salad bowls can be sourced from here! If anyone else is a Sweetgreen fan, I encourage you to see how well you can mimic your order at home. Beyond harvest expectations, you can also anticipate seeing an intern takeover on our social media–keep an eyeout for it! Our Green Earth Harvest Interns are amazing, and I’ll miss them when they leave to go to school.
In the upcoming weeks, we are expecting to see tomatoes ripening in our UPick fields. This includes ground cherries, which I have had the pleasure of trying for the first time recently. The husked fruit tastes like a mix of tomato and pineapple, and resembles a Chinese lantern plant in several ways. If you have yet to have one, I hope this will be the season to try something new! This is an exciting time of the season, as we have new vegetables to offer in the moment, while also looking forward to what’s on the horizon. Enjoy your week, everyone, and thank you for reading this week’s Field Notes!