Tomatoes, Flowers, Pop Ups & Fall Plans

Happy Monday! I hope you are enjoying this gorgeous day. 💜🍅💜 Finally some of the seemingly thousands of our gorgeous big green tomatoes are ripening. Pictured here are 3.5 - 4" diameter slices of Brandy Fred Tomato that I put on our burgers for Sunday dinner (SOOOOO GOOD!). Brandy Fred is a dwarf tomato variety that was developed through the Dwarf Tomato Project (which is quite a big deal if you're in to that kind of thing...I am). Brandy Fred is a stable cross between Brandywine and Dwarf Wild Fred. I am working on having a limited number of seed packets available for purchase as well as early tomato plant starts for next year's (2025) growing season.
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Also pictured above is Echo Blue Lisianthus in the high tunnel and Lavender Lisianthus putting on a show in our outside front of house beds. This is my first year growing Lisianthus which is widely reported to be a bit fickle to start from seed (so I did not sell starts for it this year). However, I do plan to sell Lisianthus flower starts next year. Once established it is quite a hardy flower handling the harsh heat, wind and poor water conditions quite well.
   We have resumed pop-ups and plan to continue them every Saturday (weather permitting) through the fall and into the winter. We will have our freshly harvested microgreens, whatever excess produce we have from our gardens and a limited variety of plant starts. In a couple weeks we plan to have some seasonal fall/cool crop starts such as lettuce, bok choy, perpetual spinach chard, etc.. Currently, we have perennial rhubarb starts and perennial Egyptian Walking Onion starts which we will continue to bring until we sell out or the season for planting them ends. 
   Regarding our synthetic-chemical-free garden produce:

1. Our farm's focus is not produce sales. Our farm's focus is seasonal (primarily veggie/flower/herb) plant sales, developing plants that are acclimatized to our East Mountains environment and seed saving to produce healthier plants locally. We grow food for us to eat and preserve. We sell produce only from any "abundance" that we may have.
   
2. Tomatoes are just now coming in quantities that we will have a limited amount available for sale each week until the frost. 
3. Other Summer produce we *may* or *may not* have depending upon the weekly harvest: cucumbers, zucchini, pattypan, peppers, perpetual spinach chard, tuscan kale.
4. We expect to resume selling lettuce in the very late Fall to early Winter time frame depending on environmental conditions; and we will continue until early-mid Spring or when we sell out completely (whichever comes first).
5. We do not grow corn as we have neither space nor expertise in corn -- we refer folks looking for corn to Schwebach Farm in Moriarty.

If you have questions, email us: [email protected] (that's me--the visionary farmer woman) or you may also email  [email protected] (he helps with heavy things & operations around the farm).