Blue Ribbons for the Crew
A total of 67 Blue Ribbons were awarded to the entries in the Open Vegetable Show by Ali, Lisa, Renee & Dory. Ali placed 2nd and Lisa 5th in the Vegetable show and 4th & 5th
respectively for their herb entries. Ali also won Best in Show for the Featured Vegetable Basket (Tomatoes) and Dinosaur Kale and Lisa won Best in Show for her entry of Cisneros Tomatillos.
Overall, the Blue Ribbons won: Ali 30, Lisa 24, Dory 9 and Renee 4.
The fair goes to Sunday the 14th. If you want to visit go to www.njstatefair.org to see a schedule for the daily events. If you do attend the fair, make sure you stop by the greenhouse to see the Vegetable Show and see the girls’ blue ribbon winners.
From the Fields: The seeded dill, cilantro, fava greens and Chinese mustard from last week are all up and growing. We got behind weed whacking the beds and worked all day Thursday to get them under control. Now we can see the plants. Also, the weeds got way ahead of us in the large greenhouse & round field to a point we were going to write-off the round field, but the crew realized it was our best looking tomato crop so they worked most of the day Saturday to get it cleaned up and back into production. Dora and Renee spent Sunday cleaning up the Chinese greens by thinning the beds, as they were planted a little too close. All the beds in the back field are now planted. Collards, cauliflower, broccoli, cucumbers and squash were planted as well as Brussels sprouts. All beds were filled for the remainder of the season.
Weather Report: Major rain fell on Saturday night with a total of 3” falling at the farm. It has been warm but not brutal so our work in the fields has been going on later in the day. One a good note, the pond is all filled up which gives us plenty of water for irrigation for the rest of the season if we need it. Another thunderstorm came through on Sunday evening which brought more rain, which was heavy at times.
Animal report: This week was all quiet for animal sightings, probably due in most part to the rain. As we have mentioned in previous newsletters when it gets dry is when we have problems with break-ins. Fortunately we have nothing to report for any animal troubles this week.
Corn Report – we have some great Locally Grown sweet corn (non-GMO) from Ideal Farms. It is a conventionally grown hybrid sweet corn variety. Best eaten TONIGHT as it will be its sweetest!
Fruit Report – The peaches are from Slate Hill again. They enjoy working with us for the fruit. We heard from Jim @ Windy Brow that they will have plums and nectarines available soon.
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Upcoming Events
- August 28th – 12th Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting @ the Hoboken Historical Museum – 1 pm – 5 pm
- October 1st & 2nd 9th Annual Garlic Gathering @ Olde Lafayette Village 10 am - 4 pm Lafayette, NJ (Routes 94/15)
- October 16th 5th Annual Garlic Fest @ the Hoboken Historical Museum 1 pm - 5 pm 1301 Hudson Street – Hoboken, NJ
Week of August 8th - 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 at anytime during the season. 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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