Fruit Farm Community

Disk and plow.

· May 6

The disk and plow sitting in a field of cover crop.

At the beginning of the growing season, in a ritual that is familiar to generations of people on the North Fork of Long Island whose youth involved working on a farm, Jose lays irrigation pipe in a field of asparagus.

Pruning trees

May 4

Manny using a professional-quality pair of pruning shears. We use high-quality equipment to prune our trees, to get the right kind of cuts.

Small cucumber plants in the greenhouse.

We protect our small cucumber plants in the greenhouse, where they will eventually produce 8-inch to 10-inch seedless cucumbers that will be ready for harvest at the end of May.