top yield
The tomatoes you see are from just two plants...isn't THAT nice? We sell these to local customers at our honor-system roadside stand, to a local CSA and to a few restaurants.
The tomatoes you see are from just two plants...isn't THAT nice? We sell these to local customers at our honor-system roadside stand, to a local CSA and to a few restaurants.
When's the last time you tasted a really flavorful tomato? Store-bought tomatoes may LOOK pretty, but often taste like the packaging they come in. The best tasting tomatoes aren't always the prettiest. In fact the best tomatoes, that come straight out of the field, full of character and flavor, are sometimes downright ugly.
Many people don't know that carrots come from the earth, not pre-peeled from bags. So, it can be surprising to see carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, and corn, growing in all colors - purple, green, orange, red and yellow. Modern industrial farming favors uniformity of appearance and taste, so we've gotten used to pretty, but bland produce. Growing a variety of crops is important not just because it offers us more food flavors. Variety also helps ensure a food yield in troubled times. While one variety of plant may succumb to a late frost or a particular pest, another variety may endure the same attack, and produce a viable crop. Sounds good to me.
This peach is ready to go! There is nothing like it. Do you think for a moment that an peach from Chile could taste as good as one picked from a tree ready to eat?
June through October, we grow a variety of flowers for sale at our flower stand. You can come and pick & arrange your own, or select one of our arrangements. These sunflowers were looking the other way, but turned to look at me when I passed. Yeah, right!
Here it is...the finest architecture, state of the art measuring equipment, decorative plastic bags, neatly arranged blackboard, and shade...plenty of shade. Valhalla.
Stop over and pick up our freshest cucumbers, melons, squash, tomatoes, flowers, onions, pluots and peaches. We've harvesting June through to the first frost in October or November. You gotta love it!
State of the art greenhouse...we dream a lot. It serves the purpose...growing our seedlings early so we can play with nature...we put our tomates in the ground in April. We are foolhardy. Sometimes it works.
Kim is going nuts with toms. It's hard to stop when every plant you lift has a mother-lode of ready to eat fruit.
Mid-July through October, we are harvesting some major leaguers like this watermelon with the yellow flesh. Who woulda thunk it? Don't knock it till you try it. Out of this world. We also grow a spitting watermelon for those who go for distance.
