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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Catalpa Ridge News–Vol 19 No 8–August 11, 2014

Dry Weather

Congratulations are in order for Lisa & Michael. Lisa’s Brown Swiss won first in her class, Reserve Champion Senior and Reserve Champion overall in the Brown Swiss division at the Sussex Farm and Horse Show on Thursday. Michael had 10 Blue Ribbons, Best in Show and overall 3rd place in the Beverly Post Awards for Most Excellent in the Open Vegetable Show.

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We have a nice selection of heirloom tomatoes this week. There are many different colors as we grow a great many varieties at the farm from plants we started for our spring transplant sales. Each variety if unique in its color, shape, size and flavor. Some of the varieties we are delivering this week are Pink Brandywine, Carolina Gold, Yellow Brandywine, German Johnson and German Pink just to name a few.

Franklin Greenhouse Report: The transplanted crops are doing well. The eggplant harvested for this week’s delivery are all from Franklin and the plants continue to be very productive. The bed where the Chinese cabbage that was harvested for delivery will be replanted with Oriental greens or lettuces. The hot pepper plants continue to look good.

From the Fields: Dory finished transplanting all the crops for the fall. We hope to plant them into the field over the course of this week and next. The Crew should be planting on Monday as Rich will be making his deliveries to Bergen County.

The basil plants continue to be very productive, as you know with an extra abundant amount this year. I guess you can never have enough basil! The collard greens, chard, and kale are the most productive we have had in years. The cucumber and zucchini plants remain on target, though the cucurbit plants are known to shut down at a moment’s notice. This is our second planting so far this season.

The rabbits moved under the husk cherry plants and we are only finding the empty husks so apparently they are eating the fruit. At least keeps them out of the main fields.

Weather Report: It has been stone dry the whole week without a drop of rain. We continue to irrigate but there is nothing like a soakin’ kind of rain to perk everything up. Michael spent a great deal of time getting water to the back field to help improve the sorrel, cucumbers, leeks, and sunchokes.

Animal report: We hope we don’t have a problem with the animals now that we are almost in a drought condition. We have seen in past years when it is too dry, the animals look into the lush green fields and want to break in. We have been so fortunate that we haven’t had any major problems so far this year with any break ins to date.

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Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting – Hoboken Historical Museum – 1301 Hudson Street August 24th 1-5 pm
Farm Fresh Seasonal Produce for sale as well.

  • August 11th  - 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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