Trip to the Farm - Saturday!
Each harvest season we like to schedule a few trips to the farm to give the members an opportunity to visit, see their produce growing & help with a few projects. We are about 1 ½ hours away from Jersey City or Hoboken, 1 hour from Ramsey. We are located in Wantage, NJ, and it is a good opportunity to spend a day in the country. Just RSVP by the 13th so we can have enough refreshments & plan our lunch menu. Sometime Farmer Sue usually cooks up a storm on the campfire (we are really rustic up there) and of course we'll have fresh veggies from the field too. In the past most members usually like to plan the day at the farm sometime between 11 am - 3 pm or may just stay part of the day. Either way just let us know. You can reply by e-mailor phone & I'll get directions to you. Rain date will be July 22nd.
From the Fields: The first planting of fava beans has been completely harvested with two deliveries of favas to each of our drop-off sites. Sue mowed up the patch & Farmer Rich will till it up & prepare it for another planting. Next week will probably be the last of the fava bean harvest from another patch (a different variety). Please remember that the bean pods will turn black during these hot days, but the beans inside are O.K. Just remove the pods as soon as possible & you can keep the beans to prepare within a few days. With the extra wet conditions that came after the heavy rains 10+") we have a bumper crop of slugs, as you have probably noticed with the holes in many of the greens.
Weather Report: We only had 3 ¼" of rain since our last deluge of 10" early in the month. Farmer Rich is irrigating the newly seeded pea bed & the greenhouses. The night temperatures are a little on the cool side, unlike last year and even the day temperatures have been lower than last year. The eggplant & peppers are doing great in the greenhouse, as the temperatures reach well over 100ยบ.
Animal Report: The groundhog continues to eat the parsley. He is quite a devious devil, every time Farmer Rich finds where he is breaking in he decides to relocate to a new entrance.
What's Up & Growing: The chard that was planted in the old pea patch is up. Farmer Rich & helper Leslie transplanted into the round field, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash. Kale & chard should be planted into the same field this week. It has been a short week since the last delivery last Thursday, so not much else is new.
Harvest Overview: This time of year we like to give you an overview of how we are doing. In 2005 for the 1st 6 weeks of the season we delivered a total of 25.95 pounds per full-share and this year for the same 1st 6 weeks we have delivered 24.67 pounds. You can see that in 05 we had a larger than usual delivery week 6, but this year it happened in week 5. Most of the reason is there were 10 days between deliveries this year due to 4th of July. The drop off this week is due to only 4 days to start harvesting for this week's shares. Also last year we had nice cauliflower & broccoli and this year we haven't had any harvest despite planting over 400 plants. Next week we hope to start delivering the fruit from Windy Brow. It all depends on the weather. Farmer Rich is in contact with Farmer Jim & he feels the peaches should be coming in soon!
2005 - Weeks 1 - 6 = 25.95 lbs
2006 - Weeks 1 - 6 = 24.67 lbs
Pick of the Week- Click on the link below (or on the right) for your drop-off location. This time of year the deliveries will be the same in pounds & variety but may include different items at each location.
- Hoboken Midtown Drop -Off
- Hoboken West Drop-Off
- Jersey City Hamilton Park Drop-Off
- Ramsey Drop-off
- Vernon Valley Drop-Off
- On-Farm Pick-Up
Click here for the Recipes of the Week
No comments:
Post a Comment