Summer is rolling right along here at the farm.  We still need to plant our fall carrots and transplant out our fall broccoli, but other crops are finishing out their annual lives.  We are about to pull our pea plants and till in a bunch of lettuce mix in order to plant cover crops in preparation for next year.  This week in your share bag you have: Summer Squash and/or Zucchini, two heads of Romaine Lettuce, a bunch of fresh garlic, 1 pound of Swiss chard, Shell Peas, and kohlrabi.  If you are not familiar with kohlrabi, you are in for a treat!  Kohlrabi is known as the Apple of the Cabbage family.  It tastes mildly like turnip, but has the crispness of an apple.  To prepare it, you simply cut away the leaves, peel off the thin green skin, and the cut into chucks or slices.  Try eating it raw on a salad or as a veggie with dip OR cook in a stir fry or soup.  The leaves are edible too so use those in a stir fry as well.  Fresh garlic is more mild than dry garlic, but is moist and delicious!  Use it just as you would dry garlic. . . For our family, that means adding it to everything from stir fry to soup to pasta to mashed potatoes to mixing with our ground beef for hamburgers.  Garlic is very good for you and is delicious so be creative!  Don’t forget that it is time to start thinking about what you will eat all winter.  I know it sounds crazy to be thinking winter in July, but it is time to start freezing and canning summer foods to eat in January.  If you would like to get some bulk veggies for processing such as freezing chard or kale talk to me and we will give you a good deal.  Have a wonderfully delicious and nutritious week!