Final U-Pik this Saturday and Sunday, Oct13 and 1

 2010 Season Information

Saturdays:  10 am to 6 pm (call Hotline for confirmation)

Sundays:       2 pm to 6 pm (if we are not picked out)

Tues/Thurs: 3 pm to 6 pm  (Starting in late August - call the Hotline for details)

NOTE:  The main picking field is a cell phone free zone .  Please join us in keeping the family experience "natural".  Take a deep breath, look around, forget about the daily hassles, turn your car off, and turn your cell off!  Then join us for a hay ride, pick some veggies and berries, enjoy the peace, take a nap, and have a grand time.

June 23:  Rain last night just in time for all crops.  Raspberries ripening nicely, bushes are loaded.  Major cleanup effort begins tomorrow through the weekend to make the field look its best for our opening on July 3. 

June 20:  Best crop of summer squashes since we started the farm - beautifully formed with multiple bright colors and shapes, delicious on the grill.  We picked 367 pounds of garlic scapes, on sale now at selected stores and available at our restaurant customers.  Tomatoes and eggplants looking exceptionally well, cantaloupes setting on strong.  This year we are offering 40 varieties of heirloom tomatoes including reds, pinks, oranges, yellows, purples, browns, paste, sausage, and many others!  Three varieties of pumpkins in the ground now including Baby Pam, the finest cooking pumpkin available, as well as Charisma and Racer - larger Halloween pumpkins.

June 6:  We've been harvesting 250 pounds of leafy greens every week including arugula, spinach, mustard greens, and our popular ovation brassica mix.  Hakurei Turnips are exceptional this year, summer squash will be ready in just a few days.  Garlic scapes have "popped" and we will start picking this week; they'll be available in select stores and restaurants shortly.  We trellised the tomatoes this weekend, most plants already have a heavy set of fruit and from the look, some will be ready in early July.  Cantoloupes are blossoming and the first planting of pumpkins is up - Baby Pams, the very best pie pumpkin.

The summer raspberries are loaded with blossoms and fruit is setting very well.  Rain has been good and we've kept up with irrigation when needed.  We expect an excellent crop.

May 6:  First leafy greens harvest of the season, ready two weeks early!  We cut about  160 pounds of arugula and ovation mix, the most ever.  Tomatoes will be transplanted to the field on Sunday May 16; melons, eggplants, basil, swiss chard all growing nicely in the green house.  Radishes are ready now, hakurei turnips ready soon, picking spinach now, garlic about 18" high and looking very healthy.

Salbadore and friends are very busy hand weeding all 40 100' rows of raspberries.  The berries have been fertilized, received an important dose of calcium in the form of crushed mollusk shells, and many rows of fall berries have also received a dose of dolomitic limestone to bring the pH up a bit.

Pumpkin block is very clean, we will apply our stale seedbed technique to it during the month of May to defeat the weeds and then we'll plant in early June.