Tewksbury Grace Farm

Hi Friends,

This week you can look forward to a quart of Sungold cherry tomatoes!They are great as a snack or slice them in half and add to your favorite pasta or pizza.It is like adding a tablespoon of sugar!This week in your bag you will find…

• Heirloom Tomatoes
• Sungold Cherry Tomatoes
• Summer Squash
• Eggplant
• Snap Beans
• Parsley or Kohlrabi
• Gold/Red Beets or Frozen Berries

Enjoy!

Johnny

Hi Friends, 

Another week of heirloom tomatoes!They are absolutely amazing this year; we hope you have been enjoying them. If so, give us a shout out on the comments below on how you have been preparing them.This week in your bag you will find the following items:

• ·Heirloom Tomatoes
• ·Sungold Cherry Tomatoes
• ·Red/Gold Beets
• ·Parsley Bunch
• ·Head Lettuce or Red Cabbage
• ·Snap Beans
• ·Summer Squash
• ·Eggplant

Peace,

Johnny

Hi Friends,

The tomatoes are rockin’!We hope you are enjoying these special treats.In addition to the tomatoes in your bag this week, you can also enjoy our tomatoes at Cherry Alley in Lewisburg, where they are featured as a stuffed tomato meal or as a tomato Panini or at Kathy’s Café in Hughesville, where they are featured in their omelets and other dishes.The tomatoes in your bag this week are ripe and ready to eat, so try to eat them this weekend for their best flavor.

Also in your bag are frozen red raspberries, so please pick up your bag as soon as possible.

This week you will receive the following items…

• Assorted Heirloom Tomatoes
• Sungold Cherry Tomatoes
• Summer Squash
• Red or Green Cabbage
• Frozen Red Raspberries
• Eggplant
• Cucumbers
• Basil

Enjoy!

Johnny

Enjoy!

Hi Friends,

Our heirloom tomatoes are FINALLY here!This week, you will be receiving a bag of them along with a user’s guide, which will detail the varieties we grow and how to store and handle them.We’ve been eating grilled tomato, cheese and basil sandwiches all week… delicious!Your share of the harvest this week:

Heirloom Tomatoes (some will be more ripe than others, please consult the user’s guide in your bag.)

• Sungold Cherry Tomatoes (so sweet, it is like eating candy!)
• Carrots
• Cucumbers
• Basil
• Garlic
• Summer Squash
• Head Lettuce
• Eggplant

Have a great weekend!

Hi Friends,

You will get your first official taste of summer this week with a small bag of Sungold Cherry Tomatoes.They are just starting to ripen and should soon be followed by our Heirloom Slicing Tomatoes.I know we’ve told you this before, but the tomato plants look great and we have some HUGE tomatoes waiting to turn red.We are really looking forward to a great tomato season!This week’s bag…

• Cabbage (red or green)
• Carrots
• Cucumbers
• Basil
• Parsley
• Summer Squash
• Gold Beets
• Red Beets
• Sungold Cherry Tomatoes (Eat when very orange.Leave in paper bag until ripe, super sweet! )
• Eggplant or Kohlrabi

Peace,

Johnny

Hi Friends,

This week in your bag you will find the following items…

• Kohlrabi
• Pac Choi
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Squash
• Onions
• Garlic
• Cucumbers

Have a great week!

What was in my bag today?

• Sweet Walla Walla Onions
• Head Lettuce
• Basil
• Squash
• Cucumbers
• Snap Beans
• Radicchio
• Fennel or Carrots
• Kohlrabi

We have been trying to irrigate as much as possible to keep our plants healthy during this dry, hot period.  We have had over 12,000 gallons of water hauled to the farm so far.  The crops are hanging in there and look surprisingly good (unlike the farmers at this point.)  Our fall planting has been delayed as we wait for rain.  Baby transplants would not do well in this weather!  We will harvest young potatoes soon and more carrots, so look for them in upcoming bags.

We have added a generator to our Christmas list after we went with out power for 30 hours last weekend!  We had to haul a truckload of vegetables to a friend’s cooler while ours sat there useless without the power. 

Feel free to add a comment if you are enjoying the produce we have been bringing you.

Think rain,

We are looking forward to a great 2011 season!  To learn more about our farm, check out the following YouTube clips...

A short slideshow demonstrating our farming practices:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugl5-mnnu0A

A video created by Penn College that features our farm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOhxP7j_ZUs

Let us know what you think! 

Our winter farm work has been in full swing.We recently purchased a walk in cooler and installed it in our barn.This will make our packing operations much more efficient, since we had been taking our vegetables to our neighbors cooler during harvest time.Now we are reorganizing our storage area because the cooler took up a big chunk of our barn space.

We recently cut our oak logs, which we will plant our shiitake mushrooms in.We’ll now need to wait until the snow is off before we begin the inoculation.

Onion seeds will be started in our greenhouse within the next two weeks.We’re hoping for a big onion season like last year, when we harvested 1,300 lb!

We’ll try to keep you posted on our spring progress over the next several weeks.Don’t forget to sign up for our CSA!

Peace,

Johnny

We harvested our garlic this past weekend with help from our friends Jude and Elizabeth.  Then we transplanted purple cauliflower into the bed.  We did this Saturday night instead of going to see the Cavalcade of Champions drum and bugle competition.  So we claimed our day to be the Cavalade of Cauliflower.  Sounds like fun, right?   The fresh garlic was wonderful.  We wrapped it in foil, drizzled olive oil on it and then put it on a grill.  After a few minutes we have a delicious treat!

Jude the Garlic Man

Cavalcade of Cauliflower

This week’s share of the harvest included fennel, two types of snap beans, summer squash, parsley, kohlrabi, carrots, sugar snap peas, shell peas and gold beets.This is the end of the pea harvest and their space on the farm will be filled by pole beans that will be transplanted tomorrow.My mom is visiting tonight and Leah made a stir-fry dish with lots of our fresh vegetables.I love the Dragon snap beans; they are tender and sweet when sautéed in a stir-fry.We have friends who enjoy our fennel by slicing the bulb and grilling it and then topping it with a dressing of mayonnaise and the fronds from the fennel.How are you fixing your share of the harvest this week?Click on the comment section below and tell us what you are eating.

Peace,

Johnny

A forest of fennel ……

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Here are some pictures of our farm this season...

 Part of our wildflower field

Purple Pea Flowers

Farm dogs...

Shiloh

Indie

The sun going down after a day of harvest

Hope you enjoyed this week’s share of our farm.Unfortunately this will be the last salad mix you receive until fall.During the warmer months, we focus on growing head lettuce instead of the salad mix, which doesn’t do as well during the warm weather.Here is what the salad mix looks like in the our garden beds…