Thanks to all our loyal customers, both longtime and more recent, who came out last weekend, took a wagon ride, picked apples, picked pumpkins, and shopped at the farmstand. We hope you had a great time, and we look forward to hearing what you are going to do with your apples, whether it’s baking them, …
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Long Island potatoes
Our neighbor David Steele harvesting potatoes to the west of us. Long Island potatoes have a distinctive buttery, nutty flavor that is different from that of potatoes grown in other parts of the country.
John Ross
Who better to tour our cider press with than our longtime friend and customer, the well-known chef John Ross. John Ross is a pioneer in using fresh, local produce to showcase the unique flavors that the climate and geography of the East End make possible. We at Wickham’s Fruit Farm take our hat off to …
Autumn offerings
Our autumn offerings at Wickham’s include our traditional cold-press apple cider, apple turnovers, pies, jams, apple cider donuts, pumpkins, pears, pick-your-own apples, wagon rides, and the ability to experience the landscape of a traditional North Fork working farm, not virtually, but live, in person… the real thing.
Honeycrisp apples
Our Honeycrisp apples, with their characteristic bright green and bright red coloration, are a premium-quality variety with intense flavor and little tartness.
Pick-your-own apples continues
Wagon rides start this Saturday September 9. We are closed Sundays. Please call ahead for availability at 631-734-6441.
Pay it forward
A rich tapestry of green at the end of the field, as we incorporate organic matter from this season’s sorghum-sudangrass crop into the soil to pay it forward for seasons to come.
Discing
Discing, with the plow tractor working in the background.
Plowing
Doing some plowing on a late summer day.
Rotating out the crops
Operating our Great Plains grain drill on a section of the ancient Indian broadfields, where the original, indigenous Americans planted corn. We are planting something different on this particular piece of land from what has been there in previous seasons, rotating out the crops so that the same crop does not grow on the same …