July 24 Blackberry season has begun.
Category Archives: The Farm
Cheese
July 22· Wickham’s Fruit Farm keeps a variety of high-quality cheeses in stock, personally selected by our farmstand manager Laurie McBride. This week’s selection includes baby manchego, fresh mozzarella, natural smoked mozzarella, Parmigiano-Reggiano, and baby brie wheels.
Donuts
July 22 · Sugaring the donuts.
Sorghum-sudangrass
July 21 · Our newly-seeded sorghum-sudangrass is already coming up.
Peaches
July 21· The first peaches of the season are on the stand. Try the juicy Early Red Free with tender, white flesh, or our flavorful yellow peach varieties Garnet Beauty and Salem.
Crop rotation
July 20· Test-driving this tillage implement on a field where we are rotating out dwarf cherries for a different crop next year. Crop rotation is a practice we have engaged in for many years, which benefits the soil.
Now cooking peach jam
Visual variety of tomatoes
July 15 · Add some visual variety to your salads with our orange, pink, and red tomatoes. Not only do they vary in color, but they offer a diversity of flavors as well.
Seeding sorghum-sudangrass
July 14· Seeding sorghum-sudangrass with our newly-acquired Great Plains grain drill. Incorporating the organic matter from this sorghum-sudangrass into the soil after it is grown is one of our many conservation practices here at Wickham’s Fruit Farm.
July 12, 2017
On the blackboard this week.