Heirloom Tomato Tasting Sunday!
We hope you join us on Sunday for the Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting at the Hoboken Historical Museum – 1301 Hudson Street August 25th 1-5 pm. We will have farm fresh seasonal produce for sale as well.
We managed to do quite a bit of maintenance this week. Michael weed-wacked for the better part of a half-day on Thursday. John hooked up our brush-hog and worked for two days on reclaiming the upper
field above the pond.
Maintenance was our top priority as it doesn’t take long for things to get out of hand.
We cleaned up some of the beds that have been harvested and started to till them as garlic planting will be right around the corner.
Sunday was spent sorting the heirloom tomatoes for the delivery. With the cooler temperatures the tomato production is starting to slow up.
Tonight’s delivery of sweet corn is an old time variety (of course NOT GMO), it is very similar to “Butter & Sugar”. As with any sweet corn – eat tonight!!
Franklin Greenhouse Report: Some of the newly seeded Oriental greens are doing quite well. Unfortunately one of the earlier planting had to be removed due to a crop failure. The celery is coming along great and the eggplant have been harvested for different sites each week, as there is not enough for all the sites to get them on any one week. The ginger actually looks better than last year’s crop. A new project for next year will be the mango ginger. Though we planted it this year it is very slow. It came from the Fuji Islands and perhaps it is on Southern Hemisphere time. We planted it in March and it is just starting to sprout now.
The sorrel rows have been cleaned up and we hope to harvest it within a week or two. The stand is not as vigorous as in past years, probably being three years old for this perennial. Before the end of the year all sites should receive it and next year we will plant a new stand.
The thinnings from the microgreens are taking off and the fall harvest is looking great at this point. Our arugula planting is almost ready to harvest.
Fruit Report: Tonight’s peaches are from Sonnes Orchards and are the Redhaven variety. Paul at the vineyard said the seedless grapes will be coming soon, probably about a week or two. The apples will be close to harvest as well.
Animal report: On Sunday morning as Farmer Rich and Michael both pulled into the driveway at the farm a deer darted right through the fence that surrounds our large field. They spent about ½ hour looking for it to make sure that it did manage to escape. Michael and Ali proceed to fix the fencing before starting the harvest.
Weather report: We had about ½” of rain on Monday evening and by the time we started tilling the fields we had no idea where the previous week’s rain went as the fields were very dry. The night temperatures have been very cold for this time of year. We did spend a lot of time transplanting in the greenhouse to stay warm in the early morning hours. The Weather channel showed a low on Thursday of 48-degrees which tied the record low from 1957. The cooler weather has made pleasant working conditions in the fields.
August 19th - 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.
Recipe Links
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom Delivery
Hoboken Midtown Delivery
Hoboken West Delivery
United Synagogue of Hoboken
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