Delicious Panzanella Salad /Thank You Mesa County & Vail Valley

Pre Covid -19 we were planning on attending the Grand Junction, Palisade and Vail Farmers markets. As we learned more about the pandemic it did not seem like a very good idea to encourage people to social gather and we decided to cancel and not attend. Fortunately our Colorado Communities have not disappointed us and have been extremely supportive.

Thank You! Thank You! everyone for joining our farm membership in Mesa County. We also want to give a huge shout out to Angela the Vail Farmers Market organizer who has stayed in communication with us. We figured out a way to still serve the Vail Valley by offering a seasonal farm box. We quickly want to thank you for allowing us the opportunity to provide you with farm fresh certified organic Seasonal Farm Boxes to you weekly. We love farming in Colorado and every season to us is new and exciting and the best is still to come.

August is Colorado Produce Month and we are currently harvesting so many great veggies and fruits and we cant wait to continue offering our fam boxes for many more weeks to come. Our growing season in Palisade is very long and on our farm Field To Fork we produce and offer farm shares through all 4 seasons. We are very proud to be a 4 season Colorado farm and offer produce through all 4 seasons direct to our customers. We hope to continue serving our farm members and Vail for as long as possible with freshly harvested weekly produce from our farm. Our goal is continue offering farm shares until Mid December. We will close through the holidays. Come mid January we begin seeding our nursery stock and begin harvesting the winter greens our plan is to then re-open Mid February for our Late Winter/Early spring salad shares and begin the 2021 membership programs.

Please make sure to contact us direct or Angela at the Vail Farmers Market if you are interested in late season produce or this weeks produce.

This week on the farm we are busy harvesting beautiful full size red and green butter lettuces, tomatoes, peaches, cucumbers, carrots, fennel, basil, zucchini’s, onions and more. Soon beautiful melons, pears, apples, and more fresh garden veggies will be in your kitchen and we cant wait to be part of your summer.

Here is one of our favorite summer meals that we are currently enjoying on the farm:

Tomato Peach Panzanella salad

WHAT DO I NEED TO MAKE THIS PANZANELLA SALAD RECIPE?

• Basil and fresh greens- You could also use any simple mixed green.

• Cucumber - Cut large Fresh chunks

• Carrot - keep round like pennies

• Colorado Peaches and Vine Ripe tomatoes - Yellow or white will work although I always find yellow to be more juicy and sweeter, so those are my first choice.

• Feta - Plain and whole so you can crumble it yourself, I love big chunks mixed in with smaller chunks.

• Croutons- Making your own is easy! If you are pushed for time though store bought will work but a Panzanella is built on big chunks of toasted bread. To make your own buy a nice loaf of sour dough bread set it out over night to get hard. Then cut the loaf into bit size chunks drizzle with olive oil salt and I love to add Zatar spice but any additional spice is great. Broil in your oven for 10 minutes and then let cool for a few hours.

• Last step is to incorporate all your ingredients and enjoy.

Thank you all again for enjoying our farm produce! Please make sure to order your Seasonal Farm Box this week.

Your Farmers,

Field To Fork