2025 Harvest 8

Howdy folks and welcome to harvest week 8! It’s been toasty out here in the fields and we’re loving the bounty that’s available right now. The days are spent yanking weeds, planting thousands of late summer and early fall crops, harvesting our butts off for market and CSA days, eating breakfast on the back of the pick-up truck and watering, watering, watering and watering! It’s busy but oh so dang good!

Harvest 8

  1. Collard Greens—High in vitamin K they are also a good source of cancer fighting compounds and are rich in glucosinolates which is a sulfur-containing compound which is thought to help stop cancer process at different stages of development. Pretty rad!

  2. Broccoli—Another cancer fighting veggie! Broccoli contains many vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants. Research suggests that some of broccoli’s plant compounds are thought to help prevent cancer when eaten often. Broccoli’s benefits include helping reduce inflammation, keeping blood sugar stable, and strengthening the immune system.

  3. Cilantro—Cilantro is one of the most potent and detoxifying herbs for our bodies. It helps remove heavy metals from our bodies and has antibacterial properties along with being one of the most adrenal supporting herbs out there.

  4. Beets—rich in folate, manganese and copper. Copper is very important as it helps make red blood cells and helps keep your immune system healthy.

  5. Scallions—Great for overall immune health. Scallions are a good source of vitamin C and a flavonoid called quercetin. Both can strengthen your immune system and help it fight illnesses.

  6. Parsley—This herb is an all-purpose pathogen-fighter; it keeps bacteria, parasites, and fungus at bay. It helps alkalize all systems in the body and includes important vitamins and minerals such as vitamins B, A, C, and K. It’s also a highly remineralizing food, especially for those low in trace minerals; parsley provides magnesium, sulfur, iron, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, chromium, selenium, iodine, and calcium. 

  7. Fennel—This anise flavored veggie is packed with important vitamins and minerals to help maintain overall health. Rich in Vitamin C, magnesium, potassium and manganese fennel is also been proven to help reduce inflammation and contains antibacterial properties.

  8. Zucchini/Summer Squash—Zucchini/summer squash is a highly alkaline food that is one of the mildest and easiest vegetables to digest. Zucchini is a great source of vitamin A, C, & B-complex as well as minerals such as iron, zinc, potassium, and manganese.


Recipe Suggestions

Warm Collard Greens with Toasted Coconut & Burst Tomatoes (if you can get your hands on cherry tomatoes make this!! It’s fabulous!)

Beet, Fennel Soup (Even on a hot day, this soup is wonderful!)

Now for all of you CSA Kids. Here are some of our Kiddos favorite farm fresh recipes to help keep them healthy and growing. Let us know what you think!

2025 Harvest 7

Howdy folks and welcome to week 7 of your Tumbleweed Farm CSA. We hope you had a wonderful week and are staying relatively cool. This week we’ve been transitioning to more summer crops on our harvest list for the farmers market and you’ll all start getting more of that soon. Zucchini is on! Cucumbers are getting close, and a few cherry tomatoes are starting to ripen. The corn is cranking and the peppers and eggplants are looking healthy. It’s starting to look and feel like July out here!

We hope you enjoy this VERY greens heavy and healthy box this week. Happy cooking and eating everyone!

Your farmers,
Andrea, Taylor, Pepper, Maize and our awesome crew

Harvest 7

  1. Kale—super high in antioxidants, contains vitamin C, Vitamin K, Manganese and various polyphenols

  2. Kohlrabi— Kohlrabi is great for gut health as it contains both soluble and insoluble fiber. It also contains a wide array of antioxidants, such as vitamin C, anthocyanins, isothiocyanates, and glucosinolates. These plant compounds protect your cells against free radical damage that may otherwise increase your risk of disease.

  3. Head Lettuce—This leafy green is a rich source of vitamins A, K and folate. Also a good anti- inflammatory leafy green.

  4. Cabbage—this tasty brassica helps reduce inflammation in the body. Inflammation is the leading cause of disease and incorporating more anti-inflammatory foods is very beneficial.

  5. Scallions—Great for overall immune health. Scallions are a good source of vitamin C and a flavonoid called quercetin. Both can strengthen your immune system and help it fight illnesses.

  6. Fresh Garlic—the list of health benefits is almost too long!! It’s anti-fungal, anti- inflammatory, boosts immune health, and is full of antioxidants! Just eat garlic with every meal!

  7. Broccoli—Broccoli contains many vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants. Research suggests that some of broccoli’s plant compounds are thought to help prevent cancer when eaten often. Broccoli’s benefits include helping reduce inflammation, keeping blood sugar stable, and strengthening the immune system.

  8. Dill—is great for digestion and helps with bloating. Because of its antacid properties it’s great at easing indigestion, gastritis and other inflammatory conditions.

Recipe Suggestions

Broccoli & Kohlrabi Crunch Salad (the best summer salad!)

Now for you CSA Kids! Here are some of our favorite recipes for the youngsters!


2025 Harvest 6

Howdy folks and welcome to week 6 of your Tumbleweed Farm share. We’ve had rain, we’ve had wind, we had a light frost, and we’ve had plenty of sunshine! The weather the past two weeks has been bonkers but that’s late spring/early summer for ya.

This past week we continue to get plants in the ground. The greenhouse work is starting to slow down a bit but planting outside is in full swing. The weeds never seem to let down so the hours spent on hands and knees or holding a hoe until your hand blisters is just part of the job this time of the year.

Harvest days have been extra fun lately because our kiddos have been enjoying helping the crew out. They’re a big part of the farm this year because their excitement for the crew and the work we’re doing is extremely high. It’s very sweet to watch.

Here’s a few photos of this past week in the fields.

Alrighty, we hope you all enjoy this week’s harvest and the the recipe suggestions below. Happy cooking and eating eveyone!

Your farmers,
Andrea, Taylor, Pepper, Maize & our awesome crew

Harvest 6

  1. Rainbow Chard—this dark leafy green is high in antioxidants and important vitamins and minerals including vitamin C, K and A and a healthy dose of magnesium (which many people are deficient in).

  2. Radishes—a rich source of magnesium, potassium and vitamin C. They have been studied and results confirm that they likely alter the way cancer cells reproduce so they may reduce cancer risk. They are full of fiber and for their tiny size contain a lot of health benefits. Remove the greens from these to help keep the roots crisp for storing.

  3. Beets—rich in folate, manganese and copper. Copper is very important as it helps make red blood cells and helps keep your immune system healthy.

  4. Cabbage—this tasty brassica helps reduce inflammation in the body. Inflammation is the leading cause of disease and incorporating more anti-inflammatory foods is very beneficial.

  5. Head Lettuce—A rich source of vitamins A, K and folate. Also anti- inflammatory!

  6. Baby Kale Mix—super high in antioxidants, contains vitamin C, Vitamin K, Manganese and various polyphenols.

  7. Fresh Garlic—the list of health benefits is almost too long!! It’s anti-fungal, anti- inflammatory, boosts immune health, and is full of antioxidants! Just eat garlic with every meal!

Recipe Suggetions

Cabbage Salad with Buttermilk Dressing (this is a great use of those chard stems and radishes!)

Swiss Chard & Pistachio Meatballs with Yogurt Sauce (the roasted beets and chard salad are a must with this meal!!)

Beef & Beet Patties with Spinach Avocado Pesto (try using the baby kale mix for the pesto instead of spinach!)

Breakfast Salad with Maple Glazed Turnips and Bacon (use the baby kale mix for the salad and radishes instead of turnips for this!)

Chicken Tacos with Radish Greens Chimichurri and Bok Choy Radish Slaw (use the swiss chard instead of bok choy for this)

Okay, now for all of you CSA kiddos out there! Here are some of my kid’s favorite farm fresh recipes that they actually eat and love! enjoy!

Beet Tzatziki (aka the best dip ever!)