Fruit Farm Community – Page 41 – The Choicest of Fruit

Thinning the peaches

Bayron thinning the peaches, to help make sure each peach gets the proper nutrients to make it juicy and large.

Seafood

Wickham’s heirloom cherry tomatoes and cucumbers go well with seafood. Cut each heirloom cherry tomato in half and slice the cucumbers. Serve with seared fish, cubed mango, and lumps of avocado.

The high-ceilinged barn is a cool, dark and inviting place, an antipode to the sunlit outdoors this time of year. Look! It’s a tawny-haired animal, hiding out behind a stack of cardboard strawberry-shipping boxes.

Melons are on the stand

Blackberry jam

August 4

Currently cooking blackberry jam. We make our blackberry jam right here on the premises out of blackberries we grow on our own land.

Berries

At the farmstand this month, our varied berry offerings include blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries. What’s your pleasure?

Douglas Moore

At this time of year we remember Douglas Moore, the early-20th-century composer who was born right here in Cutchogue, New York.

Whiteout white corn

July 31

Now on the stand: Whiteout white corn. This variety of sweet corn has the crispness that comes from being grown right here in Cutchogue on the same land where our farmstand is located.

Peaches

July 29

At Wickham’s Fruit Farm, our peaches taste better because we hand-select them at the peak of ripeness.

Honey

July 28

Our honey goes well with coffee, tea, scones, and other baked goods. When you take home a couple bottles of our honey, bring home one of our wooden drip sticks to go with it.