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Some hand-drawn artwork from one of our brochures from the mid-20th century.
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Transplanting Tomato Plants
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This week we are transplanting tomato plants into the field. We grow these tomatoes on land that has been preserved as open space in perpetuity.
Wickham’s Fruit Farm supports the community by maintaining the traditional rural character and open space that characterize Cutchogue and give it its personality.
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Black Plastic Mulch
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We are laying black plastic mulch with drip irrigation tape underneath it in preparation for planting field tomatoes.
Black plastic mulch not only enables the tomatoes to grow to harvest size sooner, but it also conserves water by cutting down on water loss from evaporation as the water comes out of the drip irrigation tape.
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Blast From The Past
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Blast from the past: Can anyone guess who these three people are, and about what year the photo was taken?
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Northport Farmer’s Market
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Visit us at the Northport Farmers Market, located right on scenic Northport Harbor.
We will be there opening day, Saturday June 4, 8AM to noon. The Northport Farmers Market is known for such high-quality and eclectic offerings as specialty meats, Asian vegetables, coffee, and smoked salmon.
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An Interesting Soil Map
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An interesting soil map of the East End of Long Island from the US Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Cornell University Experiment Station, 1972.
The sandy loam soils of the East End are comparatively rare in the United States and are a major reason why the area’s farms, vineyards and greenhouses grow such good-tasting and varied produce.
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Gary Brown’s Truck
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Look at this early Ford pickup of our friend Gary Brown. What year-model do you suppose this immaculately-restored pickup is?
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Coming Soon To Wickham’s Fruit Farm
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Coming up on the Wickham harvest calendar: strawberries around June 1, raspberries and cherries and more in July. Currently at the stand: asparagus, rhubarb, and tomatoes.
Everybody seems to have a special recipe and menu partner for our tomatoes; we would welcome receiving yours and sharing them with others.
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Bees & Honey
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Wickham’s Fruit Farm hires a professional beekeeper to supply
bee hives every year to replace those that don’t survive over the
winter.
Bees pollinate the flowers in our apple trees, a critical
step in producing apples, and we extract and sell the all-natural
honey in the fall.
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One Lucky Duck
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“Don’t worry! The duck’s fine!”
These two are actually unlikely best friends, read the
full story here.
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