The days are steamy and the nights are longer with late setting suns.

So dinner is light with this summer kohlrabi salad with triple pea salad.

You will find me every Saturday morning now walking the fields over at Quail Hill Farms in Amagansett. Unlike my experience with CSA’s in the past, I am not handed over a box of produce, but rather I stoop over rows of peas and lettuces and harvest my own fresh veggies. Last summer with a couple of friends I attempted to farm a patch of organic farm. In the spring the excitement was high and we planted rows of tomatoes, carrots, radish, lettuces, etc. We weeded, watered and did manage to harvest some nice things- but my real takeaway from it was that I am most excellent at growing waist high weeds! Because I was not around during the week, and the weekends are busy with friends and tennis, it got harder (and hotter!) to toil away in that dirt.  The weeds happened to love all that rich organic soil and compost we laid out, and quicker than you can say Jack Rabbit, those weeds were wicked!

Down and Dirty in the Dirt

I did however love to be out amongst the birds and the bees, and discovering plump treasures under broad leaves was like Easter Egg hunting every day. Not to mention that I have become interested in the benefits