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We have 7 acres of land on which we have set aside for vegetable, flower and fruit production. This land will be certified organic beginning June 2008*. Next growing season we will be using 3 acres of this land to grow raspberries, vegetables, apples, elderberries, flowers and herbs. The "extra-land” is planted in cover crops which add nutrients to the soil (we do not use animal manure on our vegetable fields) and is rotated in and out of fallow periods to break pest and disease cycles, and to let the land rest. We recently put up a hoop house in which we will grow early season greens and early season tomatoes. We concentrate of diversity in both the varieties we use and the number of plant we grew – for example last summer we grew more than 100 varieties including 27 varieties of tomatoes, 7 varieties of lettuce, and a biologically diverse kale mix. This year we are focusing on adding perenials: aspargus, concord grapes, ruhbarb, blueberries, and strawberries which with be ready between the 2009 and 2010 seasons.  We are always interested in new and fun produce - currently experimenting with shitake mushroom production in the woods! * Organic certification is a three year process and since we took over this land in 2004 farm we have never used synthetic fertilizers or pesticide.

Produce List 2008:

  • Snap beans: Green, Yellow, Purple and Heir Covere Wax Beans: French/Filet
  • yellow and purple Beets: Chioggia (heirloom candy stripped)
  • Red and Green Broccoli:
  • 2 varieties Cauliflower: white and purple
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Bok Choy
  • Chinese Cabbage
  • Strawberries
  • Aspargus
  • Rhubarb
  • Concord Grapes
  • Cabbage: early red, late season green
  • Carrots: three varieties
  • Celery: green and red
  • Celeriac
  • Horseradish
  • Swiss Chard: green and rainbow
  • Cucumbers: pickling, slicing, and Suya Long Edamame beans
  • Edamame: cooking soy beans
  • Kale: Red Russian, dinosaur, wild garden mix
  • Collard Greens
  • Kohlrabi: white variety
  • Onions: early purple, scallions, red and yellow storage
  • Shallots
  • Garlic and Garlic Scapes (spouts from the early season)
  • Parsnips
  • Peas (snap and snow peas)
  • Eggplant (black and purple)
  • Pumpkins: Baby Pam (pie pumpkins), jarahdale (green/baking), lumina (white), rouge vin detampes (Cinderella), Musque de provance (great taste, moddled green and orange), winter luxury (besting eating pumpkin), galeux d'eysines (pink warted and tasty).
  • Radishes (cabernet red type; red meat large “watermelon” type, daikons)
  • Spinach
  • Summer squash and Zucchini: patty pan yellow and green, patty pan light green; black beauty zucchini; yellow summer squash; heirloom costa romanesco zucchini.
  • Winter Squash: Waltham Butternut, table queen acorn, butter cup, confection (green sweet flesh), red kuri, Long Island cheese, carnival (sweet dumpling), delicata, spaghetti, baby butternut.
  • Tomatoes: beef steak, heirloom, roma, and cherry types - new girl, big beef, orange blossom, Moskvich, white wonder, stripped german, sungold, san marzano amish paste, aunt ruby's german green, beans yellow pear, blondkopchen brandywine, cherokee purple, prudence purple, Federle, green zebra be my baby cherry, orange banana, red zebra, roman candle, silver fir tree speckled roman, tommy toe, Wapsioincon peach, wisconsin 55 heinz 2653, Sophie’s choice, kentucky family heirloom mortgage lifer.
  • Tomatillo
  • Sweet Peppers: Red, green, and purple.
  • Hot peppers: jalapeno, Hungarian hot wax, chili, habenero
  • Turnips: Hakuri (baby white), Purple top (storage)
  • Cantaloupe: 2 types
  • Watermelon: red
  • Sweet corn: 3 types
  • Leeks
  • Rutabaga
  • Potatoes: French fingerling Russian Banana, Adarondack Red, All Blue, Carola, Violeta Rose
  • Lettuce: 4 types of head lettuce (red leaf, speckled trout, romaine, green butter head/bib)
  • Salad mix(4-6 types of baby lettuce)
  • Arugula
  • Greens mix(4 types of seasonal baby greens such as kale, mizuna, sweet mustards, orach, chicory)
  • Fennel Herbs: Basil, Parsley, Dill, Anise Hyssop, Thyme, Oregano.
  • Apples
  • Raspberries
  • Maple Syrup
  • U-pick: Peas, Tomatoes, pickling cucumbers, pumpkins, corn, raspberries (if available).