Share number ten...

 ...what a wonderful share season, this has been! Here's what is in your basket today:

I hope you all get to enjoy every bit, of this kit! =)

Out of your basket is an option basically for as much basil as you can use in a week -- by the time you read this, I should've told you to look in the middle seats for those!

Basil can be preserved in olive oil cubes (using ice cube trays), or... if you keep the headspace as small as possible, you can steep the leaves and stems en-masse in a jar at room temperature together with olive oil or if you want to use the aroma as part of soapmaking, a more neutral oil like sunflower.

Your bas-ket fea-tures... either cabbage or a couple of literally the LAST Swiss chard that hasnt been devastated by bugs; potatoes; either curly kale or collards, red Russian kale, and forky kale (I've come to call it). Two ears of sweet corn (eat ASAP for best flavor), one large yellow crookneck squash; one cucumber; a couple different peppers; two pint containers with tomatoes, one of them half-full of cherry-type fruits.

You know what I forgot to pick for yall... damn!

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There's some amazing staghorn sumac seed headspace right across from the garden plot, that I forgot to visit on my way out and over to the Wedge. I guess that's one more reason to come out to the end-of-share party. Date TBD, but one weekend day soon, we hope.

More solidly on the calendar, come out to Doc Brown's on Aug. 27th for your dinner, and enjoy music by my funk band Funkgettaboutit. Cake, talk, eat and sip starting at 5pm; music starts around 6 and ends no later than 8pm, with an intermission.

We'll be in touch, my friends... this is not goodbye, I'm just presently missing some good conversation at the rearmost picnic tables at this wonderful little brewery and arts spaces by the train tracks ;)