Bee: “Your blackberries are going to be ripening in just a few weeks!”
Tag Archives: fruit farm new york
06/12/2020
How do you like your asparagus? Thick and crunchy? Long and skinny? Varied?
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, …
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.
03/18/2020
Three years ago this month
03/16/2020
The orchards are a sea of scarlet red branches during pruning season.
03/11/2020
The soils on Long Island are naturally acidic. Because our fruit trees need more alkaline soils to grow well, we spread lime on the fields in the winter to bring the soil pH to the optimal level.
2/25/2020
Freshly-chainsawed fruitwood logs on the orchard floor.
June 1
Plowing under a bunch of green organic material to help conserve moisture and improve the condition of the soil. What do you suppose we should plant in this newly-plowed field? Tomatoes? Sweet corn? How about melons?
June 3
We now feature the first strawberries of the season for sale at the farmstand.