Here's what we grew in 2009. Check back in February for our 2010 list. There will be some old favorites and some new surprises.
Our vegetables are available at our farm, in our CSA and at local farmers markets.
Squash
Lettuce
We grow both head and baby lettuce varieties. Here's what wer're doing for 2009
- Buttercrunch Head Lettuce
Strawberries
We grow berries just for our CSA Member Days. This is an opportunity for members to come meet us and learn about the farm while harvesting their own delicious fruit. Harvest dates will be announced to members in e-mails and in our Newsletter.
- U-pick Days - Mid-June - Early July (Look for your invite and details in our June Newsletter)
- We plant several varieties to have a longer season of harvest. Earliglow, Honeoye, Ozark Beauty, Redchief, Surecrop and Tristar
Greens
Good health never tasted so good.
With so many different types, it's easy to get carried away....so we did! We're growing 30 kinds of tomatoes this year, including our favorite heirlooms and every shape color and flavor of cherry tomato.
Because our tomatoes travel less than 50 miles to your table, we can choose cultivars that are delicious and different. Many you're not likely to find anywhere else.
Cherry
Stupice
Sugary
Ceylon
Sungold
Dr. Carolyn
Green Grape
Isis Candy
Red
Royesta
Early Girl
First Prize
Fireworks
Beefsteak
Giant Belgium
Stuffing Tomato
Burgess
Yellow/Golden
Dixie Golden Giant
Copia
Hawaiian Pineapple
Virginia Sweets
Jubilee
Heirloom
New Big Dwarf
Sioux
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Bayndywine Red - Landis Strain
Pineapple Tomato
Brandywine - Sudduth's Strain
Black
Paul Robeson
Cherokee Purple
Plum/Cooking
Opalka
Green
Big Zebra
Japanese
Momotaro
- Peas - Sugar Anne, Sugar Snap
Here are some of the herbs we are growing for 2009. Fresh herbs make all the difference.
- Piel de Sapo (Christmas Melon) - Kermit
- Cantaloupe/Muskmelon - Reguso di Cosenza Giallo
- Montreal Market Nutmeg - A 19th century heirloom, King Edward VII’s favorite melon. Can be up to 15 pounds with round, netted, deeply ribbed fruits with a thin rind and flattened ends. Its light green flesh has a superb texture and melts in your mouth with an ethereal, spicy sweet taste reminiscent of nutmeg.
- Petit Gris de Rennes - French heirloom produces small, two to three pound dense melons with heavenly-sweet, perfumed orange flesh.
- Honeydew Melon - Double Dew, Honey Orange, Honey Pearl
- Watermelon - Sugar Baby, Little Baby Flower
- Canary Melon - Spanish Sugar Nut
Squash
This is one of our favorite vegetables. There are so many differeent types to choose from, so we plant a broad selection that are beautiful to look at and delicious to eat. Some are so beautiful we use them as decorations. We're sure you'll find a favorite out of our 20+ selection:
Blue Moon
Yellow of Paris
Silver Moon
Queensland Blue
Uniqe - Personal sized spaghetti squash
Sweet Dumpling
Jarrahdale
Rouge Vif D'Etampes (Cinderalla Pumpkin)
Blue Ballet Hubbard
Marina Di Chioggia
American Tondo
Black Forest Kobocha
Metro Butternut - Personal sized butternut
Bliss
Honey Bear Acorn - Personal sized acorn
Winter Luxury Pie Pumpkin
Sunshine Kabocha Orange
Confection
Pink Banana
Cheese Pumpkin
Waltham Butternut
Australian Butter
Triamble
Musquee de Provence (Fantasy Pumpkin)
Lots of different colors and sizes to try:
- Patty Pan - Early White Bush Scallop
- Yellow Zuchinni - Golden Girl
- Globe Zucchini - These zucchini are small pesonal sized and about 6" round. They make a nice single serving vegetable. Try them stuffed and grilled..
Geode - light green personal size roundEight Ball - dark green personal size round
Meteor - yellow personal size round
We're planting five different types of potatoes this year and testing two more. These potatoes will come to you newly dug from the ground and have far more flavor than supermarke varieties that have been in transit and storage.
- Yukon Gold - Yellow fleshed potato
- Dark Red Norland - Red skin and white flesh--great flavor.
- French Fingerling - Pretty pink skin and yellow flesh, soft nutty flavor
- Kennebec - Large baker type.
- Red Pontiac - My grandfather grew these on his Wisconsin farm. Just delicious!
And we're testing this year:
- Adirondak Blue -Dark blue skin and flesh.
- Adirondak Red - Red skin and streaked red fleshed
- Beets - Chioggia, Golden, Ace
- Radishes - Pink Beauty, Easter Egg
- Sunflowers - We just can't get enough of these! All types of shapes, sizes, and colors for a summer of bright, beautiful, long lasting flowers. Whether a field full or a vase full, sunflowers are a beautiful sight! We've planted at least six different kinds.
- Santa Fe Sunflowers - These majestic, fully double, golden-orange flowers are 5" to 8" across with the full look of a chrysanthemum. It has strong-branching stems and long-lasting flowers. Height: 5' to 6'.
- Zinnias - Bernary's Giant
