Crop Alerts & Farm Buzz
Monthly Archives: October 2014
What Happens After Halloween, New Apple Gift Boxes, and a Small Victory for Local Foodism.
AFTER HALLOWEEN, many kind and gentle pickers will forget about the farm. Somewhere between sulking about the weather, switching back your clocks, and stressing about work, you will forget that we are still here and the STAND IS OPEN. Guess … Continue reading
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Get Your Halloween Pumpkins, Sweet Apple and Pear Deals, and Sprouts on the Stalk.
FARM FANS, a simple message this week: Bundle up for blustery weather and come pick your October bounty. Your dream pumpkins are dreaming about you. Please take them home. They live for Halloween. The mutsu is legendary for snacks and … Continue reading
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99¢ Apple Sale, 50¢ Pear Sale, Pumpkin Population Explosion, Sprouts, Cider, and Donuts!
SURELY YOU ALL REMEMBER the nursery rhyme, “Humpty Pumpty.” We reproduce it here for your pleasure. Humpty Pumpty is in a bad way, But the pumpkin patch is packed today. Come to The ‘Creek and join in the shouts, “Three … Continue reading
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Fall + Farm + Food = New Apples, Giant Pumpkins, Cheap Pears, and Super Sprouts.
IT HAPPENS ONCE A YEAR, this burst of giant Mutsu apples and even gianter pumpkins. Please come share it with us. It is the Big Show, the Fall Fancy, the Autumn Awesome. Check it out: Pumpkin-sized apples in the Mutsu … Continue reading
All Hail Breaks Loose in the Orchard, and the Farm Needs You Now! Apple Storm Sale in Effect.
SIX MINUTES OF MARBLE-SIZED HAIL bombarded the orchard this week. We’re talking about iceballs with a bad attitude. The pumpkins are thick-skinned and the dogs are hard-headed, but some of the apples got dinged and dimpled. Farm fans, this is … Continue reading
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