Another bountiful Thursday harvest

Today we picked a variety of peppers, eggplant, okra and other assorted goodies. Despite the frequent rain, the garden is still doing well. When the weather clears it should really do well.

We'll be at the markets again this weekend, hope to see you there.

Eat local, garden to table!

Strawberry fig jam is in stock!

It's always a great feeling when we are able to bring jams to the market that have been out of stock for a while.
This week Strawberry fig jam and whole fig preserves are in stock and ready for tasting. Both have been customer favorites for a long time so we are excited to have those in stock again.
Another Thursday picking as you can see, an abundance of banana peppers, bell peppers, cayenne peppers and jalapenos ready for the markets.
Hope to see you there! Eat local garden to table.

Figs have arrived in numbers

Figs are here but so are all kinds of peppers, eggplant, peas and even butternut squashes. This is the gardening time that we look forward to the most. We are creating whole fig preserves and fig jelly today with strawberry fig jam later in the week.
We've been out of fig products since late May so it will be great to finally offer these to our customers.
Check out what we picked this morning with our first butternut squashes!

It looks like pepper time

Pepper time has arrived. We picked our normal okra, tomatoes and cucumbers but today was about the peppers. Hot peppers like habanero and cayenne and sweet peppers like bananas, candy cane, marconi, lunch box and cubanelles were in abundance. We'll have these ready for the markets but we'll also turn these into appetizing jams and jellies.
Eat local!  Garden to table.

Corn is here

We finally picked the corn yesterday, just ahead of the pesky squirrels. We picked 130 ears which we processed, froze and put away for cooler days. We also started picking the heirloom Granny Mary peas. These are doing very well and we anticipate an abundant harvest. Next in line are the figs which arrived July 11 last year but look to be a little later this year.
Can't wait for the whole fig preserves and the strawberry fig jam. We've been sold out of those for a long time.
Check out the pics!

Would this be a 5 bucket day?

This morning proved to be a tremendous harvest. We picked the normal tomatoes, cucumbers, okra, squash, zucchini and since we are in prep mode for this weeks markets we also picked cayenne, jalapeno, lunch box peppers, habaneros and a variety of other sweet peppers. Combine that with eggplant, carrots and two more ears of corn and it ended up being a 5 bucket day. Plus this was our 5th consecutive day picking.
Hope to see you at the markets! Eat local!

Every day picking

The tomatoes and other vegetables are growing and producing at a rapid rate. This is the time of our harvest season we call"every day picking time." Usually this time of year, we pick every other day but we have picked every day for over a week. No complaints here though, everything is positive as the hard work we put in earlier brings us bountiful harvests.
Check out the 3 stages of tomatoes.


Ready to make jams, jellies or eat!

Almost ready

Nice for salads