Crop Alerts & Farm Buzz
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Your Tomato-Basil Cooking Kit!
Now through Sunday — Pick a peck of tomatoes and get a free quarter-pound of basil in the patch by the farm stand! Celebrate summer with this classic pairing of red and green. Many a happy evening has begun with … Continue reading
Pick a Peck a Dozen Dollars!
Friends of the farm — a happy, healthy August to you all. August is the month when lots of crops are really kicking. And that means picking! So this week’s crop alert is good chance to remind you of our … Continue reading
Farm-Fresh Food: What’s Picking This Weekend?
Helloooo, farmies! Here’s your crop update for August 12, 2011… You can pick your own peaches, cukes, zukes, eggplant, peppers, herbs, and flowers. Plus there’s much more at the farm stand, including potatoes, tomatoes, garlic, onions, blueberries, and canteloupe. Must … Continue reading
You’re Invited to Eggplantapalooza!
Legend tells us that in the misty hills beyond time… Where morning dew chills the eggplant blossoms… And the fruits seem to quietly slumber… ( …drumroll, please… ) Eggplantapalooza rages on!!! Lady EggEgg, Robert Plant, and other dreamy aubergines get … Continue reading
The Peachy Wheel of Plenty!
IT’S PRETTY PEACHY around here. This fresh crop alert is urgent. The farm is bursting with food. We need your help. Come get picking! We’re talking about cukes, zukes, eggplant, garlic, onions, peppers, tomatoes, peaches, potatoes, blackberries, blueberries… Wait, did … Continue reading
The Farm Stand Opens Today!
We’ve been in “wagon mode” for strawberry and raspberry seasons, but today the main farm stand is open! Sunrise to sunset, 7 days a week! It stays nice and cool under the shade of the front porch. That’s where you’ll … Continue reading
Let’s Hear it for the Ol’ Razzmatazz!
The raspberries are going wild! Hot sunny days – and the stunning Women’s World Cup match between USA and Brazil – have the berries feeling jubilant and celebratory! Gooooooooooooooooal! Golazoooooooooo! Go USA! And good luck to all the remaining squads! … Continue reading
Fresh Crop Alert – Out with the Straw, in with the Rasp!
Hope you all had a lovely holiday weekend. The Strawberries have left town for the year; they’ll be back next June. Meanwhile the Raspberries are kicking off their summer. This chap is relaxing by the irrigation pond. These lovebirds are … Continue reading
Fresh Strawberries are What’s on Tap.
Smoothies for brunch, daiquiris at dinner… It is strawberry season in New York and it won’t last forever. So if you want to live in the “now,” swing out to your local farm and get picking! There’s a beautiful crop … Continue reading
A Couple of Farm Lads Getting Dragged Behind a Tractor on Pumpkin-Planting Duty.
We’ve planted 10,000 strawberry plants by hand. We’ve pounded umpteen hundred tomato stakes by hand. We do lots of hard work the old-fashioned way. Other times we use advanced technology, like this tractor-pulled planter. The metal wheel makes a hole … Continue reading
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