How do you like your asparagus? Thick and crunchy? Long and skinny? Varied?
06/12/2020
06/12/2020
At low tide.
06/11/2020
Here’s a preview of some of our coming attractions.Peaches: We anticipate an abundant harvest of peaches this summer, including white peaches, yellow peaches, donut-shaped peaches, clingstone peaches, and freestone peaches.
Bakery: When peach season gets underway, look for our peach pies, orchard harvest tarts, peach-blueberry tarts, and peach-raspberry jam, all made fresh in our own bakery on the premises.
06/09/2020
We are open for pick-your-own strawberries 10AM to 3PM starting Wednesday June 10, and pick-your-own strawberries will be available daily except Sunday.
Please don’t forget to bring your mask, and keep six feet away from other groups in the field. We have a great crop of strawberries this season waiting to be picked.
06/08/2020
Here’s some of what we make on-premises in our bakery: Scones, teabreads, apple-chocolate chip cookies, fruit pies of various kinds, applesauce, apple butter, pear butter, jams, peach-blueberry tarts, orchard harvest tarts, donuts, and, on Fridays and Saturdays, apple and apple-raspberry turnovers. Because we bake fresh, supply varies by the day, so please call us ahead at 631-734-6441 to inquire about the availability of specific bakery items.
06/08/2020
What makes certain strawberries taste better than others? A large part of the difference comes from how far the berries get shipped from field to market. The shorter the distance and the shorter the time, the better they tend to taste. At Wickham’s, our strawberry field is just a few hundred yards from our farmstand, so you get the freshest possible strawberries. Don’t forget, we offer curbside pickup. We are practicing social distancing. Our farmstand’s design provides open-air shopping. Get them while they last!
6/07/2020
Our asparagus is growing so fast that we are picking it as fast as it grows. That means asparagus so fresh, you get an immediate flavor hit the instant you put it in your mouth.
6/05/2020
Our largest greenhouse is big enough that one can sometimes see more than one weather pattern reflected onto it.
5/30/2020
Installing wooden posts for our planting of trellised apple trees. Growing apples on a trellis provides several benefits, including keeping high winds from damaging the branches, and allowing more sunlight to enter the tree, which produces better-tasting apples.
5/29/2020
Our latest conservation practice is this new machine for spreading fertilizer. It has a special attachment for placing the fertilizer in exactly the location where it is needed, so it conserves time, money, and fertilizer.