This farm is just beginning.
We have developed less than 4 of the 10 acres we have here so what you see is going to change - possibly by the next time you log onto the web site! Even if you can't see the changes externally they are going on inside.
Our goal is to provides a delicious, healthy product, grown with organic methods to the local community
When we pick up a package of berries in the store that comes from the north east, west coast or even South America, we recognize not only how long ago that fruit was picked, but what it cost to bring it to our table. The fuel, the labor and the time. The farmer sees very little of what you may have paid for that product and family farms are on the decline in this country. More importantly, the fruit cannot be picked fully ripe and still sustain the shipping/delivery process with the same firmness and flavor that Mother Nature provides right off the plant. For that reason we are growing what we love.
Although we love berries, we are also grow stone fruits. We have just over 100 peach, plum and apricot trees in various stages of production. We also added some pear and pomegranate cuttings. We're looking at developing the south of the property in the 2010/2011 winter as another large orchard.
We have close to 1000 thorned and thornless blackberries. We have 1000 producing blackberries this year. Some thorned, some not. Each variety is different with large, medium or small berries and all have a different flavor.
We are working hard at providing fabulous raspberries! We have several hundred red and yellow raspberries, as well as black raspberries and wyeberries (blackberry and raspberry cross). Some of these are new and we are experimenting however, once you taste a freshly picked ripe raspberry you wil have difficulty with the store bought varieties! New last year were a yellow raspberry called Anna, that proved to be fabulously sweet and delicious. It takes time to learn about varieties and we've discovered that if we let the first year canes sit a second year we can get 2 crops out of this fall berry.
We almost left off the asparagus! We planted 400+ crowns in 2009 and we'll be able to pick about 1/3 of that crop this year.
Seasonal Vegetables. We've prepared areas this years for planting corn, onion, squash, beans, peppers, tomatoes as well as cut flowers. Haven't made it to the cut flowers yet this year, we'll have to see how things go. We're learning how to grow each of these and hopefully 2011 wil be further expansion.
When we thought of what to grow, we decided to grow something we love, so everything you see growing here is what we enjoy ourselves! More importantly, we believe that life should be a never ending educational experience and for that reason we are constantly studying, reading, talking, and trying to learn about agriculture. Every year is a chance to do things better, maybe different, maybe try new ideas - it takes time, money and labor and love for the land and what it can produce. We only get one chance each year to see how something we're trying works, and then we have to regroup for next year.
