June 7 at 5:03 PM · We are opening the strawberry fields for pick-your-own Thursday, weather permitting.
Tag Archives: Fruit Farm
Rhubarb pie
Pick up some of our tart, bracing rhubarb and try this recipe for rhubarb pie, courtesy of Jennifer Zymantas: In a bowl, mix 5 cups sliced rhubarb, 1 1/4 cups sugar, 5 tablespoons flour, and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon. Add 1 1/4 tablespoons butter on top, put it in your favorite crust, and bake.
Precision cultivator
Using our new precision cultivator, which can be operated in such a way as to take out precisely the weeds that need to be removed, while leaving undisturbed the desirable plants. Stay tuned for more new precision agriculture, including our new weed-roller machine, to debut later in the summer.
The queen of the farmyard.
After rain
Rhubarb
Stick some of our colorful rhubarb in your Bloody Mary for a weekend brunch drink that pops.
Dill
Wickham’s Fruit Farm is your comprehensive one-stop destination for the freshest, most flavorful elements for your weekend lunch or weekday dinner party. When you buy some of our dill, be sure and pick up a bunch of our fingerling potatoes, asparagus, and tomatoes, as well-matched accompaniments.
Egyptian portal
The view from inside the dark, dry barn, looking out onto a lush, green, rainy barnyard. The barn doors are so tall that the frame that they give to the view appears to taper at the top, giving the scene a little of the aspect of an ancient Egyptian portal into an earlier time and …
Asparagus
Here’s a savory, healthful meal idea: Bluefish, medium-diameter broiled asparagus from Wickham’s, and wild rice.
The dog has a hard time resisting the clover-filled grassy area along the edge of this freshly-plowed furrow.