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Cheerful Cherries

The cherry tomato plants are happy and fruitful. They are now producing an endless stream of ripe tomatoes. I love how quickly I am able to fill up a pint basket and the satisfaction of carrying a full flat (box)…

The Tomatoes Are Coming

This week I picked my first two baskets of cherry tomatoes! Enough plants had just one or two ripe fruits, allowing me to fill my baskets. The plants still have some more growing to do and the rest of the fruit…

Weightlifting Pumpkins

I have been harvesting pumpkins and gourds since mid-September, but I’m pretty sure that last week was my biggest harvest yet, not in number of pumpkins but in weight. Most of the pumpkins weighed around twenty pounds each. I felt…

Local Popcorn

After a long wait, our heirloom popcorn is finally ready for popping.  We began harvesting the popcorn at the end of August. After the popcorn is harvested it needs to be shucked, and allowed to continue to dry for a…