Three Springs Fruit Farm is featured in this month's Relish magazine!

"America's Largest Food Magazine" is distributed as an insert in newspapers so check yours out this week, or read our feature in "New American Farmers" here.

Photograph was taken by friend and fellow Adams County Fruit Grower Tyler Fetters -fetters8705(at)yahoo.com

The September/October issue of Philadelphia Style Magazine has a write up on Headhouse Farmer's Market, check it out here!

It's almost September?!!  Really?!!  Looking back can be dangerous when you're moving forward at break neck speed - which is what this time of year feels like!  We're promising peaches for this week and for next week and the forecast is looking pretty decent for a third week ... but we're at the beginning of the end of peach harvest.  We're enjoying massive picking of heirloom tomatoes and Gala apples.  Pears burst onto the scene!  Folks - when you've got peaches, apples, tomatoes, and pears all at the same time... that's what I call a locavore utopia.  And to think, we're only another week away from our first pressing of "Must Eat" Cider!  We're reaching peak season in this Three Springs market update.

Schedule

• Saturday - Harbor East Farmers Market 8am-12noon
• Saturday - Green Spring Station Farmers Market 2pm-5:30pm
  
• Sunday - Headhouse Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Sunday - Greenbelt Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Tuesday - Kenilworth Farmers Market 3:30-6:30pm
  
• Wednesday - Wakefield Park Farmers Market 2pm-6pm
  

Market Produce

• Peaches - "Cresthaven" are Ben's favorite!  Check out that neon yellow background color... and the old fashioned, juicy, dripping peach flavor!
  
• White Peaches - "White Lady" this week, "Snow King" next week!
• Yellow Bartlett Pears - We've been patient and now it's paying off!  Sweet, juicy yellow pears for all!
  
• Gala Apples - A sweet favorite for those back to school bagged lunches!
  
• Gingergold Apples - A tasty blend of sweet and tart
  
• Summer Rambo Apples - tart eating apples - starting to save for cidering purposes
  
• Blackberries - plenty of supply, plenty of flavor!
  
• Red Raspberries - fall berries are in for the red raspberry fans!
  
• Tomatoes - Plenty of deliciousness on display - plus "sauce makers" baskets!
  
• Okra - fry some up!
  
• Eggplant - have you tried those adorable Fairytales?
  
• Tomatillo - last few weeks of harvest
  

It's The Most Wonderful Time of The Year

That's the joke Staples used to make in their "Back to School" commercials.  If you're a locavore who goes out of his or her way to eat seasonally, then, all jokes aside, this really is the most wonderful time of the year!  Tomatoes, Sweet Corn, Peaches, Apples, Pears, Onions... Potatoes and Cider right around the corner... this is when so many of the things we all enjoy eating - things whose qualities are only best enjoyed in season... all of these things are ripe and in prime production!  It's turned everyone at the farm into a volitile bundle of raw nerves to be completely honest - myself perhaps moreso than others.  But this is it!  This is what we do!  We rely on these weeks when we're the busiest to keep our family going for a whole year!  If we aren't getting that done now, we're really falling behind.

Gone are the nectarines, donut peaches, squash, artichokes, and cucumbers from our display.  If there is anything you're looking for, never hesitate to ask because this time of year, our table space is at a premium and it's possible that we have items on the truck that we have no space to display at market.  Just ask - we'll be happy to pull some out for you to choose.

Looking ahead, we will start spot picking Honeycrisp in hopefully two weeks!  If you see Honeycrisp elsewhere before ours are in, I'll just save you the trouble now.  Don't be disappointed - just wait them out!  Every year, the "cool" thing to do at other stands is to bring Honeycrisp before they're ripe because the reputation alone will sell them.  We refuse to do that and acknowledge that those who do sell Honeycrisp too early are ruining it for everyone!   Though I'll still be asked why the Honeycrisp aren't any good this year, you will know - if they aren't good, they were picked too soon.  We pledge to wait for your benefit and ours!



From Our Farm to Your Home,

Farmer Ben

The turnover continues, as we bid a fond farewell to our nectarine crop.  Donut peaches are likely in their last week.  Yellow Bartlett Pears are harvested, but will be at market next week.  Why's that?  Read on to learn more.  I thought we'd have San Marzano for this past weekend, but they didn't pick as many as I thought they would.  Now, we should start having them... I'm serious this time.  Another late season tomato makes its peachy debut.  A word on french tomatoes and anticipating Cresthaven season, one of my favorite pastimes.

Schedule

• Saturday - Harbor East Farmers Market 8am-12noon
• Saturday - Green Spring Station Farmers Market 2pm-5:30pm
  
• Sunday - Headhouse Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Sunday - Greenbelt Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Tuesday - Kenilworth Farmers Market 3:30-6:30pm
  
• Wednesday - Wakefield Park Farmers Market 2pm-6pm
  

Market Produce

• Peaches - "Bounty" are the best looking fruit we've had all year.  Good late season flavor!
  
• Donut Peaches - Sales have been picking up, likely to be the last week!
  
• White Peaches - "White Lady" this week, "Snow King" next week!
  
• Gingergold Apples - The people who knew these from before were ecstatic to find them last week!
  
• Summer Rambo Apples - BIG with good tart flavors
  
• Blackberries - will surely have blackberries in pints this week!  Yum!
  
• Red Raspberries - fall berries are in!
  
• Tomatoes - Wapsipinicon Peach and Jaune Flamme are "feel good" options!  Read on!
  
• Okra - fry some up!
  
• Eggplant - have you tried those adorable Fairytales?
  
• Cucumber Melons - dwindling
  
• Cukes - baby Armenian cukes and big green slicers
• Artichokes - Globe artichokes are more scarce now than before
  
• Tomatillo - last few weeks of harvest
  

Hodgepodge Update!


We're all over the place in this update!

I'm sure you've heard foods characterized as "feel good foods".  I think a few of the things we grow would qualify - apples, winter squash, potatoes - the list goes on.  Today, I wanted to talk about some food, tomatoes specifically, that kind of feel good in a different kind of way!  Two tomatoes that I'm trying this year that have caught our eye feel different than all the rest.  Wapsipinicon Peach and Jaune Flamme are tomatoes with a skin that feels different than the rest.  These two weren't satisfied tasting differently to all of their tomato varieties, but developed a external skin texture all their own!  Wapsipinicon Peach, as you might expect, has a slightly fuzzy, pale yellow exterior that's peculiar but 100% unobtrusive.  Inside that skin is a super juicy sweet flesh that incredibly sweet... sweet enough to elicit a "wow"!  Jaune Flamme are firmer, tougher skinned orange tomatoes that grow to about the size of a golf ball.  This slightly tougher skin will be noticeably less smooth to the touch, but is functionally important in eating this delicious tomato.  As your teeth bite through, the flavor bursts through the skin of the tomato.  They have a really cool tangy flavor that's really unique.  Two "feel good" tomatoes that are new to our heirloom mantle!

Pears are picked and not available?!  How so?  Pears are tricky devils.  They require a lot of special attention since they have a myriad of insect problems that are uniquely their own.  Moreso, they love to ripen quickly and fall to the ground.  Invariably, if you discover that Barlett Pears have colored on the tree, the bulk of them will be on the ground before you can get a picking crew in to harvest them.  As a result, on or around the 20th of August, Bartlett Pears are picked just before they turn and ripened off the tree.  Trust me, the flavor does not suffer.  In a week's time... especially in two weeks time, you'll be replicating that trademarked Three Springs "Peach Lean" (in which you lean forward, the juice missing your clothes and hitting the ground) on delicious yellow pears!

Speaking of "Leaner" peaches - the only kind we grow... the Bounty are looking super!  But, if you've shopped with us at the end of August, beginning of September before, you're quite aware that we're nearly ready to harvest my favorite peach, the Cresthaven!  Cresthaven have that old school look; a neon yellow background color with a bold red blush.  They have that big, juicy, peachy flavor.  They are my favorite peach for flavor.  This isn't a swipe at the flavor of any other peaches.  It's just a matter of preference.  Cresthaven are coming!


From Our Farm to Your Home,

Farmer Ben

People come and go so quickly here!  Adios, apricots!  Peace out, Necarines and Squash (limited quantities expected this weekend).  Wilkommen, onions and peppers!  Three Springs recieves a major award, prompting us to update our testimonials page.  We're suddenly all a-twitter over the whole thing!  We're but a few weeks away from locavore's paradise as delicious apples are displayed right beside our peaches and tomatoes.  Heads up for tomato surveys coming your way!  It's another Three Springs Market update.

Schedule

• Saturday - Harbor East Farmers Market 8am-12noon
• Saturday - Green Spring Station Farmers Market 2pm-5:30pm
  
• Sunday - Headhouse Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Sunday - Greenbelt Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Tuesday - Kenilworth Farmers Market 3:30-6:30pm
  
• Wednesday - Wakefield Park Farmers Market 2pm-6pm
  

Market Produce

• Peaches - "Red Star" and "John Boy" are big, juicy and delicious!
  
• Donut Peaches - We will have full supply for this weekend... after that... ?
  
• White Peaches - "White Lady" are better each week!
  
• White Nectarines - last week!
  
• Gingergold Apples - The people who knew these from before were ecstatic to find them last week!
  
• Summer Rambo Apples - BIG with good tart flavors
  
• Blackberries - will surely have blackberries in pints this week!  Yum!
  
• Gold Raspberries - supplies dwindling
  
• Tomatoes - San Marzano and Green Zebra have finally ripened, we're at full strength!
  
• Summer Squash and Zucchini - last week
  
• Okra - fry some up!
  
• Eggplant - continue to be a sought-after item
  
• Cucumber Melons - dwindling
  
• Cukes - baby Armenian cukes and big green slicers
• Artichokes - Globe artichokes are more scarce now than before
  
• Tomatillo - last few weeks of harvest
  

Must-Eat!


Our delicious apple cider was given the distinction of being one of Philadelphia's "50 Best Eats" by Philadelphia Weekly!  What a nice list and certainly a huge honor for our family.  It's gonna make for a long 3 weeks before we start to press!

I used this momentous occasion to update our testimonials page.  If you'd like to add your testimonial, we'd be more than happy to broadcast your praise (hard to believe, I know)!  Seriously though, we're glad to be recognized for our hard work and we appreciate those who have contributed, the folks at PW and all the kind words we hear at market, we don't take any of it for granted.

I'd kicked it around a few times and been back and forth on the idea before finally succumbing and signing us up for Twitter.  It didn't take me long to realize that this particular website and social network is likely to be far more helpful to us than any other!  Whether or not anyone else finds us intereting enough to follow on this site remains to be seen, but when I have a moment to poke around, I'm getting good information from those whom we are following.  We will see how it goes.


From Our Farm to Your Home,

Farmer Ben

Love to hear 3Springs go !

Follow us at 3springsfruit!  I'm a twitter neophyte, but I can see a number of advantages to using this service including sweet, "lazy web" harvest updates.  Believe me, Gala harvest will sneak up on the growers as much as it will the eaters!

It's a major award!!!

Philadelphia Weekly names Three Springs Fruit Farm Apple Cider as one of Philadelphia's 50 "Must Eats" in 2009!

"Though Saisons and gin spritzes are still dominating our drinking repertoire, we’d be lying if somewhere in the corner of our brains we weren’t thinking of autumn and the cider it will bring. And not just any cider, but the virgin-pure, intensely apple-y cider crafted by Ben Wenk with the Jonagold, Jonathan and Summer Rambo heirlooms grown on his family’s Three Springs Fruit Farm in Adams County, Pa. Wenk, a Penn State agro-ecology grad, once took a cider-making lab there, and the skills stuck. He presses the cider in small batches that are flash-
pasteurized with UV light instead of flavor-destroying heat. Because there are no preservatives, the shelf life is a mere two weeks. Not that it ever lasts that long"

It's a great list spanning a wide range of delicious-sounding foods for every appetite.  Personally, I can vouch for the unsurpassed quality of the three other "50 must"-ers who are fellow vendors at Headhouse Farmer's Market every Sunday:

• Patches of Star - Goat Cheese Ice Cream, note: I doubt my mother, sister, or I will ever forget the day we learned Elly liked trading for fruit!  Best ice cream, hands down!
• Wild Flour Bakery - Sourdough, note: Simply amazing Sourdough bread!  Best in Philly and tied in a dead heat with Baltimore's Atwaters as the best breads we trade for each week!
• Hillsacre Pride - Butter, note: Our neighbors!  Judy's the best - she's someone I look forward to jokin' around with every week.  Everything we've had from their stand has been top notch.  Now I read I can preorder Horseradish Cheddar?  Just awesome!

So there ya go!  It's truly an honor to be recognized and, though I doubt I'll win the contest, I'd super psyched to try some of the other winner's delicious food sometime during the offseason.

FB

All the sudden, a little rain could go a long way!  Read on to find out why our specialty melons have suffered the same fate as our strawberry crop.  Tomatoes have arrived en masse, followed tightly on its heels by our inaugural crop of sweet corn.  Will we have some for the weekend?  That's not rhetorical, your guess is as good as mine - gonna be close.  Onions and potatoes are soon becoming reality.  Also below, learn why apple lovers have cause for celebration in this week's Three Springs market update.

Schedule

• Saturday - Harbor East Farmers Market 8am-12noon
• Saturday - Green Spring Station Farmers Market 2pm-5:30pm
  
• Sunday - Headhouse Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Sunday - Greenbelt Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Tuesday - Kenilworth Farmers Market 3:30-6:30pm
  
• Wednesday - Wakefield Park Farmers Market 2pm-6pm
  

Market Produce

• Peaches - "Red Star" and "John Boy"... the stuff we're picking right now stands head and shoulders above all the others we've brought!
  
• Donut Peaches - We're "on the other side" of the season.  Don't miss out!
  
• White Peaches - "White Lady" are looking marvelous and tasting sweet
  
• White Nectarines - new variety, more sugar!  "Arctic Jay"
  
• Gingergold Apples - Haha!  You've been waiting so patiently too!
• Summer Rambo Apples - Black tank tops and headbands optional (rimshot)
  
• Apricots - Curtain call!
  
• Blackberries - could have some pints for jam makers (and big berry fans)
  
• Gold Raspberries - mixed into our "Mixed Berry" boxes
  
• Tomatoes - Wham!  We've got a barn full!  See below
  
• Summer Squash and Zucchini - the end is near, bid a long farewell
  
• Okra - have you seen that credit card commercial with the crawdads and okra?  Man, I wish we had good creole food in Adams County!
  
• Eggplant - have been terrific!  Check out the "sautee-able" Fairy Tale eggplant in boxes
  
• Cucumber Melons - Have you tried one yet?
  
• Cukes - baby Armenian cukes and big green slicers
• Artichokes - Globe artichokes continue to be very very popular!  Come early!
  
• Tomatillo - We've got some serious Salsa Verde nuts out there!  I'm with ya!  Yum!
  

They Sure Know How To Make an Entrance...


For weeks now, the wait has been on; Wenks and customers alike.  But at long last, we have tomatoes! 

While I wish my time permitted me to write an in-depth blog on heirlooms and how to choose the the one for you, I do have time to give a few pointers to everybody.  For me, there are 6 heirlooms that everyone should try - tomatoes that distinguish themselves from your red, slicing "beefsteak" types. 

1. Cherokee Purple - The most sought-after of all the heirlooms we grow.  The flavor is a unique "smoky" sweetness that has no equal in the heirloom tomato world.  They will look more brown than purple and will always be in a separate container to save people looking through every tomato to find one that got mixed in (its happened)
2. Green Zebra - I cannot explain why these are so late this year.  I worry they might have been stunted by some factor I cannot explain.  These smaller tomatoes are lime green when ripe with darker green "zebra stripes".  The tanginess of this tomato is what sets it apart.  Some think it tastes as if it's already been salted, for the salt shaker tomato snackers among us.
3. Arkansas Traveler - These tomatoes are smaller, slightly pink and have a very "neat" stem end.  Right now they are being mixed into our quart boxes of smaller tomatoes - soon we'll they'll have their own boxes.  These just have loads of old time tomato flavor and are red the whole way through.  Good "tomatoey" heirloom with a smooth finish and mild acid.
4. Brandywine - Big, pink, and ribbed on the shoulders, these guys also pack loads of that "old tomato" flavor.  There are too many strains of Brandywine to name and I'm playing it close to the vest on which one I grow, but suffice it to say - its flavor won out!
5. Pineapple - Yellow with a red "sunburst" (a guitar term)... it's kind a tie-dyed with red.  This is your sweet tomato!  No acidic bite just sweet, sweet, sweet!  Dad's favorite BLT tomato - it jives with a good salty bacon.
6. "Mr. Ugly" - Not a "true heirloom" as it is a modern tomato variety, the product of an heirloom cross, but it is loaded with flavor.  When you close your eyes and taste a tomato, this is what you imagine!  These ugly fruit are tomato red in color and particularly ribbed and misshapen.  As I often say about Mr. Ugly, "you know it tastes good because it's clear to everyone that I cannot sell one of these on appearance alone!"

Plus, the cherry tomato boxes have been out of this world!  Green Grape, Brown Berry, sweet Yellows, juicy Reds, Flamme yellows plus miniature boxes of currant sized tomatoes to maximize your tomato flavor. 

More good news!  Gingergold and Summer Rambo are in!

These to apple varieties are more than a sign of things to come, they are delicious eating apples with flavor not usually associated with early "summer" apples.  The Gingergold are firm, yellow, and sweet with a slight zingy tanginess to set it apart from sugar-soaked one dimensional apples like Red Delicious (not that there's anything wrong with that).  Moreover, they're my sister's favorite apple!  While I wonder what she looks forward to if the first good eating apple is the best, my sister knows apples - she grew up around them same as I did and there is no apple she'd rather have!

Rambo (bears no resemblance to green apple 'Rambo') has the same eating quality but is the choice of tart apple fans.  If you're the Granny Smith to everyone's Gold Delicious or the Jonathan to everyone's Fuji, this is the apple for you!  I haven't seen anyone else make this comparison before, but the skin texture, flesh texture, and tart flavor would also compare favorable with Macintosh if that's your speed.  All and all, two awesome eating apples which (though it's hard for me to believe) will be featured in the first batch of Three Springs Fruit Farm Apple Cider in approximately four weeks... that can't be right.  Cider in four weeks?!  Time flies when you're having fun!

I'll touch on the unpleasant news quickly... rains cracked our melons... bad.  These melons are sweeter than other melons but they are prone to cracking and we got cracking - too much rain.  But!  We'll have them this weekend and through the week... and if the rains are kind, we'll pick again... but I can't promise there will be many more than there is now.

Really just four weeks until Labor Day?!  Wow!


From Our Farm to Your Home,

Farmer Ben

The peach reception has been almost overwhelming and we're still just getting into freestones!  Perhaps the last weekend one can buy apricots to compliment your peaches and donuts.  Artichokes are elusive but popular!  Rain and water continue to be a theme as we check in on Three Springs pond-building.  Will the tomatoes ever ripen?  Check and see in this week's Three Springs Market update!

Schedule

• Saturday - Harbor East Farmers Market 8am-12noon
• Saturday - Green Spring Station Farmers Market 2pm-5:30pm
  
• Sunday - Headhouse Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Sunday - Greenbelt Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Tuesday - Kenilworth Farmers Market 3:30-6:30pm
  
• Wednesday - Wakefield Park Farmers Market 2pm-6pm
  

Market Produce

• Peaches - "Rising Star" (last picking), "Red Star" and "Starfire" (freestones)
  
• Donut Peaches - Alright, you win!  I give!  We'll bring more!
  
• White Peaches - "White Lady" (freestone) a customer once looked around and asked me, "you really think this farmer's market needs any more White Ladies?"  This is just another reason why I love my job!
  
• White Nectarines - we'll bring more of these as well!  "Arctic Sweet"
  
• Apples - On second taste, not a bad eating apple... just particularly tart!
  
• Apricots - Kind of like fans of Black Licorice and the Grateful Dead; those people who like apricots, really like apricots!
  
• Blackberries - finally picking in the quantities I thought we would!
  
• Gold Raspberries - mixed into our "Mixed Berry" boxes
  
• Tomatoes - Cherry tomatoes are here in earnest!  The eye popping sweetness of those orange "Sun Gold", the delicious "Brown Berry" and don't forget the currant tomatoes.  Slicers and heirlooms still just trickling in from the field
  
• Summer Squash and Zucchini - slowin' down big time!
  
• Okra - yum!  Finally a lovely selection!
  
• Eggplant - Piles of pretty eggplants!  Ask about all of our heirlooms!
  
• Cucumber Melons - The plants are slowing down majorly!
  
• Cukes - baby Armenian cukes and big green slicers
• Artichokes - Globe artichokes continue to be very very popular!  Come early!
  
• Tomatillo - We've got some serious Salsa Verde nuts out there!  I'm with ya!  Yum!
  

Water!


At this time last year, you couldn't get me to say one nice thing about water, rain or the lack thereof.  Without jinxing our good fortune, I'll have a few words about water in general, irrigation, and what all of this means!
















So there's you're pond update.  As you can tell by the water line relative to the white PVC pipe, we're filling up fast.  My uncle, John Wenk, in a display of good "farmer ingenuiety", ran a pipe from our veggie irrigation overflow and used that to help fill the pond!

In our inaugural year, for lack of suitable alternative, I irrigated veggies out of our house well.  This led to many low flow showers, ill-watered veggies, and dissention in the ranks.  So, the following year, we devised a water system that would capture the natural spring at the old springhouse, hold it there, pump it to our farm buildings, under the road and off to the patch.  Irrigation in the Three Springs veggie operation was a success.

This year has seen the Gardners farm undergo still more irrigation improvements around Dave and John's houses.  The most noticeable is pictured above.  John's house, when it was purchased along with the ajoining farm in the later 1980's, already had a high capacity farm pond in front of the house.  In a project that started last year and came to fruitition only one week ago, we've laid pipe all over the farm to improve our access to water and watered our Starfire and Blazingstar peaches with microsprinklers.  This irrigation system includes a portable pump we'll be able to employ at other farm ponds at the home farm in Wenksville and other rental farms.  Check out John's pics!

We're new to them, but we are 100% behind the microsprinkler concept.  It more evenly distributes irrigation water to the feeder roots - the small, fibrous ones that take up the majority of a trees moisture.  Soils with less clay (our silt loams) don't get as much capillary action as clay soils, making simple drip irrigation less effective (though better than nothing).  Water is so important, look for a future rainy day blog entry on the subject!  Till then, sleep easy knowing we're gaining leverage on future droughts, I know I will be!

From Our Farm to Your Home,

Farmer Ben

We are making our YouTube/video blog premeire this week!  Much love and appreciation to Ryan Taylor who did excellent work with our grainy video footage.  I also embedded it at the end of the email for good measure!  This week - millions of peaches, peaches for me!  Plus, donut peaches - the breakfast of champions!  A few oddities coming out of the veggie patch this week as well, plus a word on barn swallows all neatly packaged into this week's Three Springs Market update!

Schedule

• Saturday - Harbor East Farmers Market 8am-12noon
• Saturday - Green Spring Station Farmers Market 2pm-5:30pm
  
• Sunday - Headhouse Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Sunday - Greenbelt Farmers Market 10am-2pm
• Tuesday - Kenilworth Farmers Market 3:30-6:30pm
  
• Wednesday - Wakefield Park Farmers Market 2pm-6pm
  

Market Produce

• Peaches - "Rising Star", "Sentry", and a few "Red Star" being picked over
• Donut Peaches! - as Paul Stanley might say, "you wanted the best, you got the best!"
• White Peaches - early birds noticed we eeked some out for last weekend, just ahead of schedule.  "Snow Brite" is this variety's name.
• White Nectarines - sweet, yummy, and fuzzless!  "Arctic Sweet"
  
• Apples - Lodi Applesauce - apple supplies are running short!
  
• Apricots - They continue to be plentiful and flavorful
  
• Blackberries - here they come!  Lots of huge, tasty berries
  
• Red Raspberries - gonna be scarce
  
• Tomatoes - the mixed pints are still scarce, but they are looking terrific this year.  Plenty more cherry tomato varieties mixed in - more on this another day.
  
• Summer Squash and Zucchini - we can't grow enough all the sudden!  Very popular item right now.
  
• Okra - more and more okra being picked all the time
  
• Eggplant - slowly but surely making their way to market
  
• Cucumber Melons - people bold enough to try them have been coming back for them in droves!
  
• Cukes - baby Armenian cukes and big green slicers
• Artichokes - you heard me right, see below!
• Tomatillo - likewise!  see below!
  
• Homestyle Apple Sauce
  
• Canned Peaches
  
• Apple Butter - 3 kinds
  
• Pear Butter - only with sugar remains!

This update is for the birds!  (and it's pond-free this week)


A few odd things are coming out of the veggie patch right now that are worthy of mention.

From Our Farm to Your Home,

Farmer Ben

PS.  Grab a bag of popcorn and enjoy!  ... make it a handful, it's a little short... heck, make it a pint of apricots, for that matter!  Less greasy!  Roll that beautiful cherry footage!