hope you all had an excellent weekend and had a special time under the blue moon. seems there has been a lot of significant celestial activity in the past couple months, blue moons, solar eclipses, solar flares, meteor showers, and of course the constant rotation of our planet earth. Incredible time to be alive.
The pear harvest is now underway here in lake county. In decades past, lake county was the leading producer of pears in the nation. As states like washington and counries like china and argentina started to increase their pear production, our pears lost favor in the global market and many local farmers ripped out their orchards to plant wine grapes. Our farm was once a pear orchard. ripped out about eight years ago, left fallow. I like to imagine what this land was like before pears. There is a mini oak woodland before you come down into our neck of the valley. I imagine this to be an example of the native flora, before agriculture wiped its hand across the land. So before pears, acorns may have been the abundant tree crop; stored, processed and traded among the local people.
As our climate and environment changes we must adapt. As a farmer and land steward it is my goal to restore and revitalize this land, to leave it in better condition than I found it. (with the destructive farming practices in the recent past, shouldnt be too hard). With major drought conditions declared across the country, this year has been a very challenging year for farmers of all persuasions. But the resounding message I hear (perhaps from biased media), is that land managed organically has weathered this years drought better than conventional/chemical farms. While modern humans have spent billions of dollars and countless hours bending and manipulating nature to fit our industrial scale ag model, perhaps we will see a grand scale shift towards bending our own desires to match that of a thriving harmonious nature. I look to that mini oak woodland and the riparian zone along adobe creek to show me how a myriad of trees, shrubs, grasses, and flowers thrive together without applied irrigation and fertilizer.
sungold cherry tomato: Biofarm
bartlett pear: Biofarm. A piece of Lake County history. Picked firm to ripen off the tree, these delicious pears deserve a little time to show their true potential. apply some thumb pressure to where the stem meets the fruit, if a little give its ready, if not give it some more time. here's a great article to help.
blush tomato/ snow white cherry: Full Moon. Yay new variety. Blush is the sausage shaped yellow with some red striping developed by a local tomato breeder, Fred Hempel from Baia Niche farm in Sunol. snow white is the yellow cherry tomato. I believe the snow white will hit its flavor prime in a week or two while the blush is already a tasty hit. More of these to come.
Red Slicer tom: Full Moon. love 'em while you can. and can 'em while you can! 10 lb box for $25 to enjoy the flavor of summer all year long.
red flame seedless grapes: Dorn Vineyards. Awesome seedless grapes from an awesome family farm. Grown on the foothills of an inactive volcano, first harvest of this incredible table grape.
O'henry peach: Full Moon. One of my favorite peaches. one of the last peaches to ripen for the season and one of the best tasting to boot! Picked in the morning as the sun came up to kiss these little ones before going in your box.
satsuki midori cucumber: Leonardis Organics. Named after the woman who bred and developed this variety in Japan. delicious juicy flesh, thin skin. love it.
lemon cucumber: Full Moon
summer squash: Full Moon
on rotation:
Okra: full moon. okra for health , southern style okra , and african style okra
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