Don’t forget about us…. Market is running straight through the summer. Wednesdays, from 8-10 in front of PS11,320 West 21st Street.
Look forward to seeing you.
Deborah
Letter from Stoneledge Farm:
The middle of summer and the tomatoes are starting to ripen. There are different varieties that will be coming your way as we go through the season. The first ones are the small salad type that ripen first. They are solid and firm. We are trying a new variety this season that was developed by Johnnys’ Select Seeds to be Late Blight resistant. In 2009 most of NY state farms, organic and conventional, lost their tomato crops to Late Blight. Since that devastating year, we are on guard and willing to give a new variety a try if it proclaims that it is resistant to the Blight. Hopefully we will not be put in the position to see it in action. Not this season with the ample sunshine and dry weather. Better safe than sorry, though.
Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes, small orange deliciously sweet, are a favorite and they also are some of the first tomatoes to ripen. We will try to keep up with them as they fill the vines each week. Just like a bite of summer. They probably don’t make it home from the CSA pickup.
There will be orange tomatoes that are an heirloom variety, large round red tomatoes, plum tomatoes. Each week we harvest the tomato patch and fill the crates for the CSA sites from the baskets as they come into the packing barn. There is no telling which varieties will be delivered to which CSA site. All delicious and the season comes and goes so quickly. Enjoy them while the sun shines.
Enjoy the Vegetables
Deborah
for everyone at Stoneledge Farm
Tomatoes-Slicing-
Tomatoes-Sun Gold Cherry
Eggplant-Black Bell & Raveena
Edamame-Soy Beans-(take the pods from the plant, rinse and steam for 3-5 minutes. Add salt if you like. Pop the seeds from the pod right into your mouth.)
Wala Wala Onions
Tomatillos-
Basil
Peppers-Biscayne-This is a Cubanelle Frying Pepper
Red Nectarines
Donut Peaches (Different varieties ripen at different times and so the season continues.)
