Nothing like the first sweet corn to make you remember why we are doing all this. Lack of rain has really been depressing and making this entire endeavor more difficult than last year, but the taste of the first corn fresh from our garden makes it all seem worthwhile.
Last night I grilled up some New York strip steaks from Legacy Manor Farm, and some fresh zucchini from our garden and had a delicious local dinner.
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Love the panorama in the header! The kids laughed when the saw the photo—of course, people are going to wonder why we have an extra child in there. ;)
How about tomatoes? Got any ripe ones yet? I have basil in the garden and buffalo mozzarella in the refrigerator just waiting for the first ripe tomato and it's about killing me!! We have a couple thousand green ones out there but not a single ripe one. It's a bizarre phenomenon happening all over town this year.
Jim sent me to respond—just call me the farm secretary. ;) Actually, he just doesn't know. I tell everyone to ignore anything he tells them about the farm, basically, because he's so good about just making stuff up on the fly.
We've had gold nuggets for about a week and a half now and just started with the sungolds. Our sweet olive grape tomatoes just began in earnest as well, and we grilled a basket of those for dinner last night.
Other than that, we're in the same boat—tons of green zebra, brandywine, German strawberry, amish paste, san marzanos—and the couple few that have ripened have had blossom end rot. :-/ Tomatoes have a hard time ripening in too hot and setting fruit in too dry—both of which we've had plenty of, and I imagine you have, too. I just posted a cool photo here of my green zebras with the sweet olives in the background.
We're having a tough, tough season in this area, and the hot, dry, but still humid weather has been wreaking havoc on everything! Folks are honestly seeking hay up in Canada to get through the winter, and the lady we get our beef from, who has 200+ acres, is spending a small fortune in hay for the winter because she's been feeding hay nearly nonstop since fall. She also said even the Mennonite livestock owners are at the hay auctions, which is a very bad sign if they're not finding hay within their own community.
Our only saving grace is that it's been raining to the south, west, north and east, just not here, so our well is in somewhat decent shape.
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