Heirloom Tomato Tasting Sunday
Stop by the Hoboken Historical Museum on Sunday for the 9th Annual Tomato Tasting between 1 – 5 pm. We hope to meet many of our local Hoboken & Jersey City members there. Always a great event!
We were short of help this week as Leslie was out sick most of the week. The pick-of-the-week is a little lighter than normal as we did not have enough help or time to harvest.
Saturday we had a beautiful day for the trip-to-the-farm and with the help was able to get up the failed cauliflower and weed the sorrel bed. The cauliflower bed is being replaced by lettuce and Chinese cabbage.
Fruit – This week is we have picked up Allstar Peach from Windy Brow Farm located in Newton, NJ.
From the Fields: The New Zealand spinach is still doing well and unfortunately we couldn’t pick it this week, but it should be more coming in the next week or two. More oriental greens & lettuce are planned on being trans-planted into the fields this week. Our squash has really slowed down, but a new planting is coming along. The tomatoes are looking good, but the cooler temps have stalled their ripening. The back field has been plowed but we haven’t been able to get back there to get it ready for next year, such as putting up fencing. In Franklin, Leslie plans on cleaning up the beds & get them ready for some fall greens. Our fields at Scott’s are doing well, with tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, & eggplant coming along ok. We just hope for a little warmer temperature, especially for the tomatoes & eggplant.
Weather Report: Scattered thunderstorms have been passing through & fortunately they are helping our newly seeded mustard, radishes & turnips. Farmer Rich thought he might have to replant the red mustard but it is coming along quite nicely. We have having very cool temperatures for August. It is nice to work in, but not good for many of the field crops. The August full moon came on Saturday and is known as the Green Corn Moon or the Grain Moon, but the August full moon did not affect the crops very much at the farm!
9th Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting –Hoboken Historical Museum Sunday – August 26th 1 – 5 pm. We plan on having a great selection of heirloom tomatoes as well as farm fresh produce for sale. The Hoboken Historical Museum is located at: 1301 Hudson Street
Farming Quote of the Week: Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. Unknown author
Work Day @ the Farm
Weeding the sorrel patch with Farmer Rich.
Pick of the Week: click on the links below or to the right to bring you to the delivery specific to your pick-up location. Deliveries will be of similar variety & poundage, but may contain different items. Occasionally, some crops are ready to harvest but not enough to deliver to all our drop-off locations. What we do is start to filter them in each week to a different drop-off until there is enough to delivery to everyone.
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