Our Great Plains grain drill is virtually the only ten-foot grain drill on Long Island to have the wheels in the center and not at the ends. By making that modification, we are able to plant cover crop, grains, and grasses right up to the edge of the field without a wheel getting in the …
Tag Archives: Fruit Farm
06/17/2020
Making a stopover in this field.
06/13/2020
Getting our ducks in a row before we head out to the field with the machinery. It has been a busy season for us on the farm.Attachments area
06/13/2020
Bee: “Your blackberries are going to be ripening in just a few weeks!”
6/12/2020
Wickham’s cucumbers are seedless and have thin skins.
06/12/2020
How do you like your asparagus? Thick and crunchy? Long and skinny? Varied?
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 …
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 …
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.