It’s time.  Tomato time.

It’s time.  Tomato time.  The tomatoes are pouring in.  Slicing tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, paste and plum tomatoes, cherry tomatoes.    The tomato room is filling up with stacks upon stacks of harvest crates.  What did we do yesterday?  We picked tomatoes.  What did we do today?  We picked tomatoes.  What will we do tomorrow?  We’ll pick tomatoes.

It is a wonderful time on the farm.  I’ve been peeling and freezing the overripe or otherwise unmarketable heirloom tomatoes.  It’s one of my most treasured side benefits of the job.  I get to stuff my freezer with gallons and gallons of the most delicious tomatoes money can buy.  This winter those tomatoes will become pasta sauces, soups and stews, curries and casseroles.  Eating our tomatoes year round makes me feel rich indeed. 

The rain over the weekend was lovely.  The whole farm needed a drink.  Since I so often complain about the rain – either too much or too little – I thought I had better acknowledge it when it’s just right.  The rain will germinate all the weeds in our newly shaped beds for fall brassicas,  Brassicas are everything in the cabbage family, including broccoli, Brussels sprout, cauliflower, kohlrabi, turnips and radishes.  Once the soil dries just a bit more, we will cover the beds with tarps to smoother and bake the weeds.  Then, when we go to plant in early August, the beds should be mostly weed free.

Meet our Farm Workers: Skylar

This is Sklyar’s first season working on the farm and we are so grateful to have her capable help!  The task she likes best is harvesting, which is good because….tomatoes.  She must really love farming, because she does it in her free time, too.  Virtual farming, anyway, as she enjoys playing the role-playing game Stardew Valley.  On account of her many excellent qualities as an employee and an all around fantastic human, we will forgive her for the fact that she doesn’t really like to eat tomatoes.

Small Shares

• Yellow Squash
• Zucchini
• Cherry tomatoes
• Slicing tomatoes
• Assorted Eggplant
• Red Pontiac Potatoes

Full Shares

• Yellow Squash
• Zucchini
• Cherry tomatoes
• Slicing tomatoes
• Juliet Plum tomatoes
• Red Pontiac Potatoes
• Basil