Thank you so much to all you intrepid potluckers, for braving that blazing sun, that pesky poison ivy, and of course the confusing directions.  We had such a blast yesterday!  The food was delicious, and we love showing folks the nitty gritty of how we grow your food.

We hope to have potlucks once a month from here on out, till it gets too cold.  If you couldn’t make it this weekend, we hope you’ll come see us soon!

Until then, we’ll tempt you with a bit of what you missed:

This gal swears she’s a great radio voice.

Last Wednesday Arlo and I traded the juicy tomatoes and the excruciating heat of the farm for some blessed A/C and delightful conversation at the WRIR studios in Richmond. (Don’t get us wrong: we love the farm! But the cool of the studio was something else.)  We joined our good friend Eli of Eli’s Greens and Sunny Gardner of Lightly on the Ground for a great chat about farm life and local food systems.

Have a listen!

Lightly on the Ground radio interview, 21 July 2010

And now, the last week (or maybe two) in pictures!

Here at Frog Bottom last Friday:

Miles and Katie and Shannon and Ali hunched over the cucumber rows, plucking the mature ones from the undersides of the vines and filling their buckets for the weekend farmers market and CSA pick-up. It was a sticky sticky day, like all the days have been of late.

I ate my first cucumber salad of the season: two or three cucumbers halved lengthwise and sliced, minced scallions, minced parsley, olive oil, lime juice, feta cheese, salt and pepper.  Easy, fast, and unbelievably delicious.  We eat some iteration of this salad as often as possible during the summer!

And Arlo tried his first cucumber.  Tasty enough, he decided, but also really fun to squish between your toes.

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Last July we wrote a post called “How to be cool as a cucumber” — definitely worth another look during these sweltering first days of summer.  Hie thee!  Learn a bit about the cucumber’s origins, learn about the different varieties we grow, and get some recipe ideas, including our go-to cucumber salad recipe, easy fridge pickles, and even a cucumber cocktail!

(Here’s Shannon showing off an Asian cucumber.  It’s a bit funny looking, to be sure, but it’s our favorite. Read all about it!)

Just a quick peek into how we’ve been keeping ourselves busy these last few months.  We’ll try to start every week in similar fashion here on the blog — a photographic look back at the week before. Hope you’ll join us!

* Thanks to Margaret Atwood for the reminder.