Amber Waves of Grain
We are delivering winter wheat this week from Farmer Diane’s leased fields just down the street from our farm. During the summer we often stop by Diane’s farm stand to touch base with her & talk shop, and on one particular Sunday afternoon there was a breeze blowing & when looking over the wheat fields we understood where the “amber waves of grain” came from in America the Beautiful! It was truly stunning and only wish we could have captured it for you to see. We hope you find this an interesting addition to your deliveries. Technically, winter wheat is planted in the fall and harvested in July. Then it has to dry naturally. Please see recipes on the back & if any of you have any ideas for other uses of wheat, just e-mail Sometime Farmer Sue and we’ll pass them along to everyone! We had another delivery van problem on Tuesday morning and had to delay the Tuesday Jersey City & Hoboken deliveries until Wednesday. The fan belt snapped & fortunately Farmer Rich wasn’t stranded in the middle of no-where, but unfortunately it snapped about 45 minutes before the first drop-off. The veggies did not like being out the extra day and we apologize if the delivery looked abit off. We do hope this is the last of the delivery van problems for quite awhile. It has been breaking down so often that we just leave the key with the mechanic! Fruit – This week we have picked up Empire Apples from Windy Brow Farm located in Newton, NJ. From the Fields: The cool weather crops are looking extra good this week. We narrowly missed the frost that did affect other areas around us this past weekend. We are still behind preparing fields for garlic planting. Fortunately we secured some garlic for planting from a local grower and also some for the deliveries as we had losses in our field this year. The Franklin greenhouse is scheduled to have its plastic recovered. This greenhouse was extremely beneficial all season long for additional crop production than we could have done with just our on-farm greenhouses. We hope to be able to continue renting it again for the 2009 season. Weather Report: Another 2” of rain fell on top of the 2” from the week before. The fields are fortunately spared from becoming too muddy. Animal Report – Sometime Farmer Sue saw our resident Great Blue Heron on Sunday morning as we were loading the van for the Garlic Gathering.
Farming Quote of the Week: Piles of gold are not as good as stores of grain. Chinese Proverb.
Upcoming Events:
October is Garlic month!
also, Windy Brow Farm (where we get your fruit) Pick-Your-Own-Apples 10am-4pm daily & weekends w/Wagon Rides 359 Ridge Road Newton, NJ info: 973.579.9657
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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