July 3· Our Sungold cherry tomatoes are sweet with a slight musky flavor. They make a refreshing snack eaten raw, whole.
Tag Archives: Cutchogue
The Farmstand
July 2· Brightly-colored orange and red tomatoes inside the farmstand.
The view from West Creek Avenue
July 1 · The view from West Creek Avenue. If one had taken a photo from the same location in the 1840s, our familiar barn would have been in the photo in the same place as it is today.
Greenhouse Shade
June 30 · Toward midsummer we add some opaque shade material to the greenhouse glass to help keep the temperatures down inside the greenhouses.
cherry orchard
A panorama of the cherry orchard.
JUNE 28th UPDATE
As the strawberry season nears the end, we are closing the strawberry patch for pick-your-own. We are also closing pick-your-own sweet cherries. Sweet cherries are still available for purchase at the farmstand. Pick-your-own tart cherries will be available this coming Thursday, Friday, and Saturday weather permitting. Please call 631-734-6441 before coming out to pick tart …
Donuts
Donuts cooking. We cook our donuts fresh early in the morning right here at the farmstand.
Sweet Cherries
Our crop of sweet cherries this year features some of the highest-quality cherries we have grown in many years. We harvest them when they are fully ripe, and we grade and pack our cherries by hand for quality control. Our cherries this year include several new varieties which we have selected for flavor and sweetness. …
BEES
Bees cooling off on a warm day.
Pest Control
June 26 at 7:04pm · This red tie that we have hung in the orchard is a pheromone disruption tie. It is one of a variety of integrated pest management tools that we use to limit the damage done to the crops by undesirable creatures. These ties disrupt the mating process of pests and help …