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Posts Tagged ‘sweet corn’
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Saturday, July 17, will be a special day at the market for two reasons: First, our very first book signing will start at 1 p.m. with local author Mary Beth Crain and her Knack! Vegetable Cookbook. The cookbook is a dandy one for beginners and experienced cooks alike; gourmet recipes will entice the experts, while plenty of photos show food prep techniques (as well as the finished dishes) for the novice. Come out for this special event with this special lady who has embraced living here in Oceana County, even though she used to love living in the big city.
Second, our first day of our famous sweet corn will be this Saturday! The guys start picking early in the morning, and continue picking throughout the day, so you get just-picked corn at the peak of freshness! Oh, yeah, we’ve all been waiting for this! 
Tags: cookbook, fresh, gourmet, Knack! Vegetable Cookbook, local, Mary Beth Crain, Oceana County, sweet corn
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
If you look at our home page, you will see six photos showing how crops are growing on our farm in Hart. You’ll see Dave thinning off some frost-scarred apples; we hope that the apples that remain on the trees will be great quality SweeTango(R) apples by the end of August! The next photo shows our earliest sweet corn (with my cousin Jeff Hawley’s legs for reference); the old saying for sweet corn, “Knee-high by the 4th of July” doesn’t apply–it will be knee-high by mid-June! Next is a tart cherry tree, then a light sweet cherry tree, and then a black sweet cherry tree. The tart cherries and light sweet cherries are similarly colored yellow; the black sweets have started turning red. We should have ripe sweet cherries around June 19, if all goes well. The final photo shows our tomatoes, staked, mulched, and trickle irrigated. They are blooming right now, so we have to be patient. We expect ripe tomatoes around the middle of July this year.
Tags: apples, Hart, On the Farm, sweet cherries, sweet corn, SweeTango(R), Tart cherries, tomatoes, trickle irrigation
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
Today we’re getting some much-needed rain here in Oceana County. It’s been very dry in the orchards and fields; this will really help the sweet corn take off and grow! We have irrigation under the mulch for most of our vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, summer squash), but our famous sweet corn needs to get moisture from the clouds!
Dave has been irrigating the orchards to keep the trees healthy and to get the newly planted trees off to a good start. Our trickle irrigation systems have the added benefit of targeting specific locations and amounts of water. They are buried, so we don’t lose much to evaporation, either. Dave really works at doing the right things and doing them well, to have a farm that will sustain crops for generations.
Tags: cucumbers, irrigation, Oceana County, orchards, peppers, summer squash, sweet corn, tomatoes, trickle, zucchini
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