Weekly Update as of July 20th
Crossway Farms Weekly Update
Rain!! How nice it was to smell the rain in the air and then to actually have some of it land on our farms. We received anywhere from .5 inch to 1.2 inches on the farms. That doesn’t break a drought, but we will take whatever the Good Lord gives us. We have been planting strawberry plants at the Cisco Rd. location, weeding the pumpkins, and removing the old raspberry canes from the patch. The summer is going quickly — it will be pumpkin time before we know it. We are still picking a few red raspberries each day and are looking forward to the fall varieties coming in about a month.
Our flowers are blooming like crazy, and we have a wonderful supply of gladiolas, zinnias, and sunflowers. We also have plenty of small zucchini and yellow squash for grilling or stir fry, and there is red cabbage (and still a few green) for sale this week. One change from last week’s update: due to a gap in production for a few days, we will not have many green beans until late next week.
We have a good supply of Early Girl, Mountain Fresh and a few heirloom tomatoes for this week’s market. Plenty of cherry tomatoes! Next week I will describe in detail each tomato variety we have. We are selling Fulton’s sweet corn, too; it is a great flavored bi-color with very full ears. On cucumbers: they’ll be ready in about two weeks. They’re late this year because we lost our early-start plants.
Angie and Debbie will have their baked goods at the downtown Farmer’s Market (Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to noon) and I have listed the items below.
Baked Goods: No Bake Cookies, Peanut Butter Fudge, White Chocolate Fudge, Chocolate Fudge, Rice Krispy Treats, Lemon Bars, Frosted Cut-out Cookies, Oatmeal Cookies, Mini-Carrot Cakes with Cream Cheese Frosting, Hershey Kiss Cookies, Cinnamon Rolls, Pennsylvania Dutch Coffee Cakes, Buckeyes, and Caramel Corn.
Have a great weekend!
Jason and Angela Frantom
Crossway Farms
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