Cruisin' into August we've got the first peppers, cucumbers, and zucchini for you. Don't worry, there will be plenty more of these to come along with lots of tomatoes, eggplant, corn, and beans!
We have green and yellow zucchini, you will start out getting one or the other this week. This year for our green zucchini I'm trying an Italian heirloom variety: Costata romanesca, known for it's supreme flavor. As you'll see it has light and dark green stripes and is slightly more bulbous than it's hybrid cousins.
This box should complete our egg rotation, so everyone should have received a dozen by now. We plan to continue this rotation so you should be receiving eggs every third box or so.
Blueberry season is peaking out real heavy so I couldn't resist picking them one more time for you. This time we went to Trachte's Blueberry Farm where we usually go on County Trunk A outside of Pittsville. They also have ice cream to reward you for a good pick, bring the kids!
I also found some fat heads of cabbage for your box from Sunny Sky Farm. Mark Anderson has been a great friend and mentor to me over the years. Like us, Mark grows everything organically on his farm, as he has for almost 20 years in Amherst Junction. This would be the last of our rained-out summer crops, and look forward to get started on the fall plantings of broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and more.
I'll conclude with a couple of reminders. Sept 14th is this year's annual harvest party. This year's theme is "Virgo" so there will be a special nod to Virgos!
At this point I am going to switch over Chicken pick-up here on the farm to a more open schedule. Email us when you'd like to get some or all of your chickens, and we will work out arrangements on an individual basis.
