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Peach Pecks, Mystery Apples, and Summer’s First Cider.
THE SLOW FOOD MOVEMENT is based on a fallacy—that farming happens slowly. Sure, there are months of waiting for the crops, when you don’t know whether to scratch your watch or wind your butt. Then… Bam! You gotta lotta food … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, cider, crops, eggplant, market, peaches, peppers, Photos, small farm, summer, tomatoes
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How to Pick a Peach, and How to Avert Another Cold War.
PEACH SEASON BEGINS not with a bang or a whimper, but with the dressing-room rustlings of our summer stars. While a bunch of peaches have stepped onto center stage—and are ready to pick!—many of the cast are still backstage preening. … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, bees, farm stand, fruit, peaches, Photos, small farm, vegetables
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A Big Eggplant Sale, a Rare Plum Batch, and a Morning Hasselhoff.
JUST LAST NIGHT around the campfire, one of us farmers was asked, “If you could have your brain implanted into someone else’s body, whose would it be?” That farmer said without missing a beat, “David Hasselhoff.” Incredibly, the Hoff Himself … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, crop, eggplant, fresh, peaches, Photos, plums, raspberries, small farm
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Crazy Early Apples to Pick, and a Review of the Babies’ Progress.
NEVER THOUGHT WE’D SAY THIS, but Zorro had the right idea. Dug himself a hole to expose the cool soil, and hunkered beneath the orchard office. Poor guy is built for cooler climes, high up in Basque country, bred to … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, peaches, pears, peppers, Photos, raspberries, small farm, squash, tomatoes, zucchini
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Happy Berrythday, America, and Au Revoir, Les Strawbs.
FOR PAGANS AND ASTRONOMERS, summer begins on the solstice. For us fruit farmers, it starts on the Fourth of July. That’s when the strawberries pull up stakes and head for the ferry, trumpeting the end of spring’s labor and the … Continue reading
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Tagged blueberries, cherries, fruit, Photos, raspberries, small farm, strawberries, u-pick
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Strawberries, Raspberries, and How the Horn of Plenty Works.
A FARM IS A STUDY in timing. Sometimes we have nothing but dirt—messy dirt, dusty dirt, and dirty old dirt. A bumper crop of dirt. Nobody ever asks, How much for a pint of dirt? Do you have good dirt … Continue reading
9 Rows of Strawberries, 28 Spinning Toasters, and 1 Italian Wedding.
YOU BERRY MONSTERS are a wonderful site each morning, vacuuming up the ripest specimens, vanishing by the sleepy afternoon, and reappearing for a final sunset sweep. Bravo and thank you, friends. Strawberry season continues this week. Successive waves of berries … Continue reading
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Tagged country life, farm, Photos, picnics, raspberries, small farm, strawberries, weddings, welding, woodwork
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Find Your Thrill on Strawberry Hill, and on Face-bock-bock.
TO A STRAWBERRY, you are Godzilla. You stomp and chomp with great smashing and gnashing. But the berries like it. They love it. They live for it. They celebrate strawberry season as the time to embrace the ultimate fate of … Continue reading
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Tagged farm, food, fresh crop, nature, Photos, plants, Small Farms, strawberries, u-pick
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Strawberry Soft Launch Saturday!
JUST A QUICK NOTE to announce the opening of u-pick season. You can pick strawberries starting at 8 AM on Saturday. We’ll be open every day til sunset for self-serve u-pick action. First come first serve! You can find some … Continue reading
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Tagged Photos, pick, pick your own, Small Farms, strawberries, u-pick
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Farm Kid Frolic, and Four Words About Strawberries.
YOU NEVER THINK, “Mother Theresa wasn’t all that,” when you are in the bathtub. You don’t say, “Grrrr,” in anyone’s general direction. And you don’t pray that your neighbor’s emerald lawn turns the color of old apple butter. That’s because … Continue reading
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Tagged Farm Life, Photos, Small Farms, strawberries, weeds
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