The Tohono O'Odham people, who are now the watermelon's cultural stewards, originally cultivated this yellow-meated fruit. The Yellow-meated watermelon is also known as Gepi by the Tohono Oâ??odham people and as Sikyatko by the Hopi people. Watermelons were among the most important crops to the Piman and Hopi peoples, who ate them for six months of the year in the dry Arizona climate. The large oval watermelons have mottled green skin and bright orange-yellow meat. The prolific vines sprawl in all directions and are able to survive the high summer temperatures that are common to the desert environmen
Tonnemaker Family Orchard is a 126 acre fourth-generation family farm in Royal City, WA (southwest of Moses Lake). We are Certified Organic and have over 400 varieties of fruits and vegetables. Our specialties include heirloom tomatoes, unique summer squash, heirloom and specialty melons, cherries, apples, and around 250 varieties of peppers. We sell our produce directly to you at our farm stand, which is open June through November, and through farmer's markets.
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Three Girls and A Tractor is our family produce business. My name is John Kopmann and I am in business with my wife Shari and our three daughters: Jamie, Sara and Katie. We are situated in the Missouri River Bottoms and raise sweet corn, seeded and seedless watermelons, cantaloupes, specialty melons, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, potatoes, a variety of squash, pumpkins, gourds, honey from bees that pollinate our gardens, pecans from hundred year old trees on our property and cactus.
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Located in the beautiful “Tip of the Mitt” of Northern Michigan, Thimbleberry Farm & Fleece produces fine fleece goods, eye-catching Icelandic Sheep Breeding Stock, flashy Appaloosa Horses, Pasture Raised Poultry, and New for the 2008 Season Heirloom Vegetables and CSA Poultry Shares on 78 acres of gently rolling hills in the Straits of Mackinaw.
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The Zahradka Farm at Brown's Cove has been in existence for four generations. This 80 acre farm is run today by George Zahradka III. Just like his father and grandfather before him he runs every aspect of this small farm, from buying, to selling, planting to harvesting. From start to finish George takes pride in working the land and enjoying the fruits of his labor!
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The Wild Way Out is a completely different approach to agriculture and medicine in south central Michigan. We focus on unusual, heirloom and wild produce that has been grown and harvested in the most healthful way possible. Kate believes that many health problems can be associated with no longer consuming foods that have sustained our species for most of our existence. To paraphrase Euell Gibbons, these foods may be medicine but I prefer to eat my medicine.
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Along the Minnnesota River bluffs we grow produce for a farmers market and a CSA. We grow only heirloom and open pollinated produce. Specializing in squash and tomatoes but also have a large dedication to greens, carrots, peppers, onions, eggplants, melons, beans, swiss chard, turnips, broccoli, zucchini (several varieties), herbs, beets, cabbage, brussel sprouts, radishes,cucumbers, herbs and always adding more each year. We also have some fruits on vines and trees. Berries and apples.
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