Friday, October 28, 2011

Frightful Farmer Face Fluctuation

Please read the following graph with your BEST Vinny Price impression/accent:

So with the impending Nor'easter "scheduled" for our final market day at the HLFM , we had a hard time gauging who would come out & how much to harvest. It's the eve before the eve before all hallows eve, so what are we to expect? A stirring of the weather cauldron is what! MWAWHAahahHa...HAH.

you may return to your previously designated Deny Accent:
This being an October Nor'easter, it's bound to be a cold one. Dang arctic bidness. I think we have used all our 'hold until tomorrow' cards. All we needed was one. more. day. Actually we didn't have to use any cards, before now, really because just about every day that we were at market, it was absolutely perfect, sometimes it rained as we drove home. OH YEAH, once it lightnin & thundah'd during the opening bell. We wuz lucky dat time, and so with this sendoff from Mother Nature Her Highness, I'm feeling a bit blessed. kin I git an Amen.

We will layer up & hunker down and be waiting with all of our wunnerful produce. Please c'mon out and pick up enough to last ya. This is it.. of course , unless you are on the special off season delivery list... and if you don't know bout it & live in the Tri-Town Area, please ask...

BRRRR

Yes today was a forewarning of what is to come, seems we forget the chilly feeling after a summer of heat & humidity & temps you can be naked in & not notice.... You better believe I had the longhandles on today as I will in the morrow....

Since the harvest was in flux, so to speak... we had some time to fiddle around ( not really but pretend with me for a moment ) so Hattie & I decided to try on possible Halloween Costumes!
Here we are in our best garden attire... whachutink?


SKERRY SPINACH FACE
Instead of John Travolta and Nick Cage in Face Off..... a less scary (I hope) me & spinach mask... also note the covered rows behind me....
Can you believe we have spinach leaves
as big as our faces!?!
come get some at the HLFM on saturday!!!



This is Hattie as CAP'N SPINACH HOOK.
( captain hook... get it? I probably didn't need to point it out)


Anywho, thanks for a great market season and we are ready to deliver your goods starting next weekend... Costumes negotiable.... ;) wink... nudge...

See you in the mornin!!!!!!

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

orange you glad?

It's fall and I know this not only because of the temps at night ( and the fuzzy socks on my toes) but because I have been eating winter squash!! how I love them. at first I eat them just roasted, later I will get interesting. This Kabocha from Greenbranch awaits the knife.... how do you eat yours?


As promised and only a month later than promised, here is a shot that doesn't quite get a good angle on all the plantings in the field.

Take our word for it, there is lotsa food in that thar gard'n.
Them's carrots in the lush center row ...

Ya'll come out to the market this weekend. It's a long one & gawjuss too. We'll have lotsa food.