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!

Hungarian cherries are now ripe.  We will have these for sale the next three weeks.  The Jonkherr van Tets red currants are also just about ready to pick with more red currant varieties ripening in July.  We’ll be at the Ithaca Farmer’s Market beginning July 4th with red raspberries and possibly the Invicta gooseberries.  We’ll have duck eggs, of course!

The winter tree pruning has been completed and now we have turned our attention to pruning small fruits: gooseberries and currants. We’ll be planting a new block of cider apples this spring as well as planting more black raspberries, multiple varieties of gooseberries and currants. We’ll be planting a Liset crabapple for our little farmhand, Idunn Liset.

We will have St. Edmund’s Russet apples for sale at our farm stand during the first week of Sept. Check back for more ripening dates. Farm stand address: 7726 Rock River Road, Interlaken. (from Ithaca: Route 96 north, 5 miles north of Interlaken, left onto CR 139 .5 miles, left Rock River Road .5 miles). Farm stand hours: 9am-dark every day.

This is the first post about the Daring Drake Farm in Interlaken New York.