Tomato Tuesday
After moaning about the weather being cooler and the tomatoes slowing up, well it looks like they are ripening up just fine. There will be lots of tomatoes in this week’s delivery as well as next week. We have lots of nice heirloom varieties in this week’s selection. Why not try our sauce recipe on the back. Our field up at Scott’s is producing very well, but does need water. We still have not been able to get to the back field to get that field started for next season. We have added Jessie to our weekend work crew to help with bunching up the greens. She has been working off-and-on for about a month now on Saturdays and that is a big help.
Fruit – This week we have picked up Nectarines from Windy Brow Farm located in Newton, NJ.
From the Fields: Tuesday, Leslie tilled up the turnip patch as well as two other bed
s. Planting is on the schedule this week for fava greens, radishes and transplant some oriental greens. Our turnips in the Franklin greenhouse seem to have been struck by aphids, so the turnip greens are probably shot. The new planting of zucchini looks good; the plants are small but are coming along nicely.
Weather Report: It was a surprise to Farmer Rich that we actually received about ¼” of rain on Friday night. He started the irrigation system and then went to check the fields and found a bit of a muddy mess and low & behold discovered that it had actually rained the night before. It didn’t look like it had rained, but it had. The forecast for this week looks rain free until the weekend.
Animal Report – It looks like both the rabbit & groundhog have left the inside field as Farmer Rich has not seen any signs that they are there.
Upcoming Events: The annual heirloom tomato tasting @ Ramsey Day is postponed this year due to the extended Centennial Celebration & Parade that Ramsey is having that day. We know that many of our Bergen County members will miss us there this year. Look for us in Ramsey in the Spring for the Heirloom Tomato Transplant Sale on May 16th.
October is Garlic month!
- 6th Annual Garlic Gathering @ Olde Lafayette Village – October 4th & 5th – Lafayette, NJ
- 2nd Annual Garlic Fest at the Hoboken Historical Museum on October 12th – 1301 Hudson Street
- Date to be announced – Garlic Planting at the Farm Sometime in October – help us plant garlic for the 2009 season.
Farming Quote of the Week: Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days....by Henri Alain
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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