Crop Updates

GREETINGS FROM WHEELER BROOK FARM:

 

SPRING:  Our busiest time of the year has awakened us and our farm from the winter’s dormancy.  We hope this message finds you well and working in your yard and gardens.  For many of us this year, spring cleanup was a huge effort after the later winter storms.  We required two weeks of raking, sawing and carting away limbs, trees and branches to clean our fields and paths.

 

So now after several beautiful weeks, some hot weather and a little less than enough rainfall, we already find ourselves at the beginning of the harvest season.  We will begin picking strawberries for the stand tomorrow, Memorial Day as well as rhubarb and  tender tasty lettuce.  Barb is arranging her flower bouquets and we have an assortment of colored geraniums for sale.  More vegetables and flowers will be available as the season progresses.  Our small flock of New Hampshire Red chickens are supplying us with a limited number of fresh brown eggs which we also keep in the stand refrigerator.

 

All of the seedlings started in the greenhouse are now planted and appear to be establishing themselves for summer production.  Late blight which decimated much of the potato and tomato crops of farmers and gardeners everywhere has already been verified in several states.  The blight spores travel in the air so if conditions are cools and wet, infections can be anticipated.  You can learn more about the fungal disease and prevention practices by visiting state university agricultural web sites.

 

One last note:               WE ARE NOT PLANNING TO OPEN FOR PICK

 

  YOUR OWN STRAWBERRIES THIS YEAR!

 

I made that decision last year after raising a good crop and experiencing days of rainfall which resulted in few pickers and spoilage of the crop.  Disgusted, I plowed most of them up and decided not to grow strawberries any more.  I guess it was a hasty decision but we now have only enough berries to supply the farm stand.  We did plant more strawberries this spring so we anticipate doing pick your own again next year.  Please accept my apologies.as we know many of the original and first, and second generation of pickers look forward to the strawberry season.  Maybe after forty years of PYO berries, we deserve a break.  In any case, we will have pick your own blueberries and raspberries probably beginning mid-July.

 

Best regards,  

 

Farmers Bob and Barb




SEASONALLY AVAILABLE CROPS

PYO Small Fruitsstrawberries

Strawberries mid June - early July 7:30am - 6:00pm
Blueberries mid July - late August 7:30am - 6:00pm
Raspberries early Sept. - hard frost 7:30am - dusk

Vegetablestomatoes
Beans, Beets, Brussel Sprouts, Broccoli, Cabbage, Canteloupe, Carrots, Cauliflower, Cucumbers, Corn, Eggplant, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Endive, Kale, Mesculun, Onions, Okra, Bok Choi, Radish, Turnip, Peas (Shell and Edible pod), Peppers, Pumkins, Rutabaga, Spinach, Tomatoes, Squash (summer and winter), Swiss Chard, Watermelon, Herbs, Parsnip

Barbs Blossoms strawberries

We also sell and arrange fabulous cut flower arrangements at our farmstand.