About Our Crops


Current Produce & Picking Hours:

 Spring Harvest Open Weekends!

(Checking hours regularly is a good idea as they can adjust to accomidate harvest in the field)

In The U-Pick Fields Right Now:  Current Conditions: U-pick Fields Currently Open Weekends !Squash, Zucchini, Round Zucchini, Scallopini Squash and  Greens Beans.
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Fresh Gathered From Our Fields Right Now: Spring Season currently Open Weekends Squash, Zucchini, Round Zucchini, Scallopini Squash **U-pick and Gathered Produce availability can vary from one day to next
depending on how much gets picked the day before.


We offer you the ability to come out and pick most of our veggies yourself. This insures you the freshest produce and quality you choose straight off the plant. It also allows for a wonderful family experience.

We also gather produce. We understand we have some customers that can’t make it out in our fields for picking. For this reason, we do offer the ability to order pre-gathered produce for pick up. We also stock a limited amount of pre-gathered produce at the start of each Saturday and Sunday during our harvest season.

 

Our  Crops

Green Beans, Lettuce, Radishes, Chard, Peppers, Pink-eye Peas, Cucumbers, Yellow Squash, Zucchini, Round Zucchini, Butternut Squash, Fresh Basil, Herbs, Sunflowers, Watermelons, Blackberries, Etc….


We have currently met all of our requirements for organic certification and have made a personal choice to hold out on filing for our certification. We feel this will give us the ability to bring you organic produce at a lower cost and these days we can all appreciate the savings.

 

Our Fresh Zucchini You don’t want to miss the flavor of our zucchini. Available in small to large sizes. Making your cooking possibilities endless. We even have Round Zucchini (I recommend it stuffed with tomatoes, ground chicken, topped with cheese and baked at 350 degrees. Garnish with fresh basil! )

 

Ruby Chard A crinkly leafy vegetable, which is a member of the beet family, that has a bright red stalk with green leaves that have red veins running through them. Chard grows in clumps but is sold in loose leaf bunches. It can be eaten raw or the green leaves can be prepared in same manner as spinach, and the stalks can be prepared like asparagus. Swiss chard is high in vitamins A, K and C.


Our Strawberries
We will not have spring 2011 u-pick strawberries. Check back for 2012!


Our Basil
We grow Ceasr, Genova and Purple basil. All perfect for fresh cooking or drying. Combine with Fresh Sunflower seeds to create a great healthy pesto.


Our Eggplant
Organic Little Finger Eggplant – More slender and petite than your standard eggplant. Dark purple skin is thin and tender. Flesh has a silky texture with few seeds and mildly sweet flavor needing very little cooking time. Harvested young when 3-6″ long and glossy.


Our Cucumbers
Straight eights are our main crop. A wonderful slicing cucumber.

Our Black Berries Our berries are a sweet and juicy thornless variety making for a wonderful picking experience. Blackberry u-pick is expected to open Mid May-June.


Our Sweet Green Beans:Provider a wonderful bush snap bean. Great for u-pick. Nice and crisp, a wonderful vibrant green bean with great flavor! The hardest part is not eating them all before they make it to the pot for dinner.


Our Old-fashion Sweet Watermelons
We grow a couple of Watermelon seeded varieties! Crimson- A classic, oblong, 10x12” striped melon. Weighs in at 15-25 lbs. with bright red, juicy sweet flesh. Moon and Stars- HEIRLOOM a popular variety known for its sweet flavor and dark green rind decorated with yellow spots of large (moon) and small (star) size… Allsweet- Large, oblong 25-30 lb. striped melons grow to 17-19″ long and 7″ in diameter. Deliciously sweet, bright red flesh. Congo- Large, oblong up to 40lbs deliciously sweet, bright red flesh.


Our Fresh Lettuce
We grow both head (butter head and romaine) and loose leaf. Our most popular is our personal salad blend where we give you a bunched variety filled with color texture and great flavors.


Sweetfields Sunflowers
Seeds- are a black striped eating variety! Great for roasting, pressing for milk, pesto, in salads… Flowers- petals can be used for cooking or in salads. Beautiful as fresh cut flowers!

Don’t forget: birds, squirrels, goats, horses, cows, chickens and I’m sure other animals love them.


Our Yellow Squash
Both straight and crook neck.



Tip: Store your fresh cut chard unwashed, in a plastic bag, in the fridge to keep it fresh longer.

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