Vol 12 No 14 - Week of September 3rd

Ramsey Day - Saturday The 6th Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting is Saturday @ Ramsey Day! We’ll be set up across the street from the High School with the tomato tasting & farm-fresh produce and hope to meet many Mahwah/Ramsey members there. The Tomato Tasting is a fund raiser for the Woman’s Club of Ramsey to raise money for their charitable work. Ramsey Day is always a fun event where customers can taste over 20 varieties of tomatoes and sample some peppers, cucumbers & more. We also make up some salsas, dips & pestos with recipes to hand out. Everyone just loves to be able to taste so many varieties of tomatoes in one spot. Weather Report: We did not receive any rain this week. Farmer Rich has been irrigating. The days & nights are cooler and Sometime Farmer Sue saw the first wooly bear caterpillar of the season on Sunday. It has been very pleasant to work in the fields all week as those super hot days seem to have “gone by”. What’s Up & Growing: Finally the turnips look they will be a reality. Shanghai cabbage & chard are almost ready for harvest. The late tomato plants are “late” and are just flowering now. We hope that they will bear fruit to extend the season. The carrot planting also looks good aside from missing some leaves to the gourmet groundhog. The white carrots are up and the mustards are coming along well too. The planting of leeks failed as they split at the stems. We have a very happy patch of horseradish which will be harvested probably in October. Animal Report: Seems to have been a quiet week for the animals. The only animals Sometime Farmer Sue saw on Sunday was a gaggle of turkeys and a lot of leopard frogs in the potato patch. From the Fields: Finally, some of our potatoes are in your delivery tonight. We did have a few trips to the farm scheduled so members could come up & help with the harvest, but only a few came so the harvest took longer than we had hoped. Farmer Rich & Sue harvested another 4 rows of red potatoes on Sunday and there are another 12 rows yet to harvest. We hope to get them out of the ground over the next few weeks. Corn Report: Sweet corn from Green Valley Farm is in tonight’s delivery. Fruit Report – Mollies Delicous Apples –Freshly picked from Windy Brow Farm. Mollies are a nice summer apple, not to be confused with Red Delicious. Attractive fruit with unique slightly conic shape. Good very distinctive flavor. Introduced in 1966 by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Upcoming Events: · September 8th – 6th Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting – Ramsey Day · September 15th – 3rd Annual Garlic Day @ the Arboretum-Frelinghuysen Arboretum – Morristown, NJ · October 6th & 7th – 6th Annual Garlic Gathering @ Olde Lafayette Village – Lafayette, NJ · October 14th – 1st Annual Garlic Festival @ the Hoboken Historical Museum Hoboken, NJ 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
• Beth Haverim Drop-off
• Click here for the Recipes of the Week