We will be taking a break from the Ithaca Farmer’s Market and the T-burg Farmer’s Market for a few weeks. We will have apples, pears and some plums when we come back at the end of August. Starting Tuesday the 25th of August at Dewitt Park and Saturday the 29th at Steamboat Landing. Wednesday the 26th at T-burg. St. Edmund’s Russet is the first of the apple varieties and Harrow Delight the first of the pears. Thanks to all our loyal patrons during the berry season, see you with the tree fruits in fall.

Peaches!

We should have a few half pints of Hinnomaki Red gooseberries and Ben Serak Black Currants.  Red raspberries, black raspberries and the sweet Early Golden Plums will be on the table.  We’ll also be at the T-Burg market on Wednesday!

Look for us at booth 86 at Saturday’s market this week.  We will have the last of our gooseberries and black currants.  We’ll have red and black raspberries and Early Golden plums which are sweet and juicy!

Interst in our 2010 fruit CSA is high.  We will be evaluating our harvest notes at the end of our apple and pear season and sending an email to all interested families.  If you would like to  receive information in November, be sure to sign up at our farmer’s market booth or by emailing: daringdrake@zoom-dsl.com.  We are planning for only 25 shares in 2010.

picking, picking, picking….for Tuesday market we will have more Rovada red currants, black currants (want to make jam or freeze a bunch?  ask about the ribes rebate), our red raspberries are finally producing quantity so look for more of these (the Boyne variety is recommened for freezing), a smaller amount of black raspberries, 4-5 varieties of gooseberries, and the Early Golden Plums should be ripe.  They are just juicy and sweet.  We may also have a small supply of sea berries on hand.  You need to taste them to believe them.

Gooseberries and currants are great freezing fruit.  The smaller berries are great in pancakes and waffles (as are the duck eggs), for baking in muffins and bread, and the larger berries are great in hot oatmeal and smoothies.  Get your vitamin C all winter.

Sorry folks – we have been unable to keep up with the harvest to attend Sunday markets in Ithaca.  Two of us are trying to do all the picking with a two year old fruit fiend in tow. 

For Tuesday & Wednesday markets this week we will have the last of the Bristol black raspberries, a nice harvest of Jewel black raspberries, 3 or 4 varieties of red raspberries, pink champagne currants, black currants, Hinnomaki Red Gooseberries, Invicta gooseberries, and Black Velvet gooseberries.  We will have a very small quantity of duck eggs this week.  Look for 6 packs of our eggs in Greenstar and Shur-Save in T-Burg.

For Saturday market will also have red currants, Red George gooseberries, and Captivator gooseberries. 

Out of the Fingerlakes area?  Regional Access is delivering our fruit throughout New York state.

For Saturday market we will be harvesting Hinnomaki Red, Hinnomaki Yellow, Tixia, Black Velvet, and Invicta gooseberreis.  We will have pink currants and a very limited quantity of red currants.  We are also harvesting black currants, Pink Champagne currants, black raspberries and red raspberries.  We will have duck eggs for sale as well.

We have Pink Champagne currants, Red Lake currants, Ben Sarek black currants, Boyne red raspberries, Killarney red raspberries, Bristol black raspberries, Hinnomaki Red gooseberries and Balaton Hungarian cherrries for Tuesday market at Dewitt Park Ithaca and Wendsday at Tburg market.  Always some Duck eggs.

We have Bristol black raspberries, red & pink currants, and red raspberries at the farm stand.  We’ll be at the Ithaca Farmer’s market on Sat. July 4th and Tuesday July 7th.  By Tuesday we will have Hinnomaki Red Gooseberries.  And duck eggs, of course!