Oh finally summer is almost here and with it this week came more "summery" prices on produce, amen!  Weather stabilized into a more typical seasonal pattern, hence, our crop supply is now flourishing. 

If you haven't already, now is the time to start stocking up your freezer for frozen smoothie makin's (if you are a smoothie fan, anyway... give it a try!) Years ago they canned everything and stored it in the basement, eh? Well now we know that fresh is best and frozen from fresh is just slightly less nutritious.  You'll thank yourself come December! Yeah, you can find some pricey berries in the late Fall and Winter, but they don't have the same summer flavor.

 

Back to the plate this time around, expect to see a new crop of yellow onions, red leaf lettuce, fresh ginger, and after what seemed like a very long week off we have raspberries coming back.  Oh how I missed them!  Did you know that out of all the berries we have here, raspberries are the most alkaline?  That's good news if you are keeping track of your pH.

We're also anticiapting the arrival of some packaged dried mangoes.  There was a mango shortage for a while, then they came back, but it took time for them to get dried up and ready for these handy snack packs.  These are great for travel.