ALL APPLES & PUMPKINS HAVE LEFT THE FARM. But You Can Still Pick Your Own Brussels Sprouts & Sunflowers & Hot Peppers; Fresh Donuts & Cider; Open Every Day 10:00 to 6:00; Last Day of Season = Sunday October 31.

– SUMMARY –

Reportedly no apples or pumpkins are on the premises • U-pick sunflowers • U-pick Brussels sprouts • U-pick hot peppers • U-pick flowers • Open every day 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM rain or shine • Fresh donuts every day 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM except Monday • Shop for cider, sprouts, hot peppers, ginger, turmeric, garlic, honey, syrup, pottery, slushees, donuts • COVID: Farm stand staff are vaccinated, and protocols include: (1) We are not requiring masks as the farm is an outdoor experience, (2) We recommend that unvaccinated people wear masks, (3) Practice social distancing under the covered porch area, (4) These protocols could change • Drive slowly on the farm • Drive CAREFULLY when approaching and leaving the farm on Route 96 • Thank you for being U-Pick Champions

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DEAR FARMKETEERS & ‘CREEKNIKS, you have outpicked yourselves. Outharvested and outlocavored. All apples are gone. All pears are gone. All pumpkins are gone. All peaches and tomatoes and eggplants and berries are gone. It’s the earliest – by at least 3 weeks – that we’ve ever announced the end of apple season. Thank you so much for bumrushing the farm this year. We will stay open through October, and you can come for a last round of sprout lopping, flower picking, and hot pepper harvesting. Donuts and cider, too.

U-PICK SPROUTS = OPEN! These smashingly nutritious spheroids of cruciferous craving are your ticket to a psychological festival of plant appreciation. We call them BROUTS for short because they are just massively broutish. Cut a fresh stalk in the field, pop off the sprouts in the kitchen, chop in half, stir fry with bacon or fakin’. You can also get them at the farm stand while supplies last. ALERT: Cut the whole stalk; don’t pick individual sprouts since that wrecks the plant. Do not be a plant wrecker. Be a sprout lover!

U-PICK SUNFLOWERS = STILL GOING! You can pick sunflowers around the farm. People wait all year for them – to cut them and, of course, add them to their social media haul. ALERT: Please bring your own clippers for the sunflowers!

U-PICK HOT PEPPERS = EXTENDED SEASON! The pepper patch has kept producing, especially ghost peppers and jalapeños. ALERT: Don’t rub your eyes after picking peppers til you wash your hands!

Get local GINGER and TURMERIC. You only need to taste an itsy-bitsy slice of fresh ginger root to be a convert for life. Good enough to eat out of hand, not to mention bringing life to your cooking creations. Same with the fresh turmeric root. Have you tried golden milk? Sharon and Dean from TreeGate Farm around the corner have been delighting farm fans with these Hawaiian roots grown right here in the FLX.

FRESH DONUTS = Every day 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM except Monday. The Mark 2 Donut Robot is still churning out fresh fried toroids of fructotic splendor – sprinkled, if you like, with cinnamon sugar. “A sprinkle of sin, sugar,” is all you have to say. No donuts on Monday, when the Donut Robot observes its Cyborg Sabbath.

FRESH CIDER = READY NOW! At the farmstand you can get jugs of “Orchard Ambrosia” – that’s 100% unsweetened, unpasteurized juice of apples and sometimes a few pears. Nothing added. It’s like the old days, and it gets better each week as apple season rolls on. Freezes great, just pour a little off the top before freezing to keep it from going kaboom. ALERT: We are unable to fill carboys because the orchards got picked soooo fast! Sorry, cidermakers, let’s try for next year!

DRIVE SAFELY! We have witnessed several terrible, high-speed collisions on Route 96 by the farm this summer. Please approach the farm carefully, exit the farm carefully, and drive slowly when you are on the farm!

A Drivers Education
REMINDER

Entering from Ithaca

Indian Creek Farm is 1/2 mile north of the Cayuga Medical Center traffic light. We are on the left, just after the Dubois Road intersection, as you come over the rise. The entrance comes up quickly.
There is no need to increase speed to 55 MPH. Stay slow to keep the cars behind you slow.
Use your left TURN SIGNAL well before the turn. We have watched people stop to turn into the farm without using their signal.

While on Farm

Please drive slowly. There is no hurry. You are on vacation while on the farm. There are kids and folks of all ages walking around the farm. Take it easy.

Exiting

Do not pull out if you can even see a car coming. Assume the car is speeding and that you will get hit.
Be patient, an opening will come

We want you to have a safe visit.

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