Hello to all our peach fans! We had a wonderfully long peach season after a bit of a delayed start. The weather seemed to stay cool enough just long enough for our peaches to stay nice and firm and perfect for the stand. We are now officially out of peaches for the 2017 year, but we still have our stand open to sell our other seasonal treats, including fresh cantaloupes AND tomatoes!! These are both super juicy and delicious, and you do not want to miss! So come on by and pick up some delicious produce.
Thanks so much again for all the support for our little farm,
Farmer Dave and Farmer Linda
Peach season is about 5 days away. Farmer Dave thinks the fruit will be ready to sell around June 12th. Keep an eye out for our signs on Sycamore Drive signaling the fruit stand’s opening!
We’ll sell daily as supplies last, and will have our seasonal produce from our garden for sale as well.
Thanks again for the support –
Farmer Dave and Linda
Hello peach and apricot fans! It is almost that time – one of our favorite times all year – we are a few weeks away from peach and apricot season at Promacks Farm! Stay tuned for updates here and on our Facebook page. We look forward to seeing you at the Farm!
Hello to all of our farm supporters, friends and family, near and far…
Hard to believe it is already the middle of February. Sure doesn’t feel like February here… we’ve skipped right past Spring into Summer this week – it is 90 degrees outside!
Here is our Farm Update for February 15, 2016:
LOOKING AHEAD
The bees are busy in our peach trees.
The trees are in full bloom and we are looking forward to a mid-June harvest.
TODAY
Lots of Moro blood oranges still in our trees.
The fruit is very colorful, sweet and juicy! Available at our farm or through our online farm store.
NEW ADDITION
Our new 6 month old steer arrived on February 9th.
He will be with us for the next year.
Thank you again for all of your support. Stay tuned for more info on our approaching summer garden and peach/apricot harvest.
Our favorite time of year is finalllllllly here… the peaches are ready! Head to Promacks Farm daily, 9-4, to pick up some delicious, fresh, TASTY peaches. See you on the Farm!
The weather may be more mild, and even giving us rain here and there, but that doesn’t mean that your garden has to be dormant. Here’s a little update on the garden here at the Farm:
We are excited to see our first strawberries already formed – the plants so healthy this year, loving the rain and mild temps this fall.
The winter garden is pretty much planted – some items for the winter such as lettuce, broccoli, spinach, and peas.
Also, we’ve been busy planting crops now that will be harvested next June such as onions, garlic, carrots, and celery. Even during Fall, there are always things to plant and plan for.
We cannot forget the yams we just harvested – we got about 90 pounds of yams from just 6 yams planted in April. Incredible!
And lastly, the cool wet days get us excited for some of the winter “chores” to come soon- pruning and planting new fruit trees. The fun never stops at the Farm! 🙂
Greetings from the Farm! Fall is actually a somewhat busy month in the garden, as we are still harvesting from summer and planting the seeds for late fall/winter gardens. We’re still harvesting figs, apples, corn, zucchini, tomatoes, and soon yams.
What we’re planting now are carrots, peas, lettuce, spinach, and broccoli. Next up will be onion seeds (or you can wait until the seedlings arrive in nurseries in November) and garlic cloves. Also, this year, we’ll be attempting to plant celery from seed.
All of this should keep all you gardeners busy for a while!
Here are some of our winter peas, ready for planting
The end of summer is upon us, as the season will soon change from those nice warm summer days to the time of year when the chill starts to settle, and it gets chilly as soon as the sun goes down.
Summer 2011 was another good year for the farm. While the peaches and apricots weren’t as prolific as we would have liked, the trees seem primed for a better year next year. In the absence of the stone fruit, we had great years from our other varieties of produce. We had an incredible amount of tomatoes, squash, onions, garlic, cucumbers, blood oranges, and even grew some giant watermelons. Most of these goodies made it to our porch stand, and we’re very thankful for all of you that stopped by.
Like everything in life, all good things must come to an end, and as summer ends, so does the major growing window for produce. We will have a winter garden, and our blood oranges will be ready mid-winter, but the variety and amount of produce won’t quite rival summer. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t keeping busy and having fun on the farm still!
This little break allows us to do some other fun things, like making more of our own blood orange wine and also trying to make our own sunflower seeds.
We recently bottled both batches of our latest blood orange wine. We still are trying to figure out all of the nuances, but we’re definitely having fun trying (and tasting!).
Bottling the wine using the siphon tubeFarmer Dave and Ryan in the middle of the bottling processour 2011 Blood Orange wine
Another fun project that we’ve been undertaking is experimenting with sunflower seeds. In the garden, we have some big sunflowers growing, and instead of the letting the birds pick at all of the seeds, we decided to pick the flowers and try and make our own sunflower seeds. We picked the head of the sunflower, and let it dry for a few days. Then, we removed all of the seeds and rinsed them off. Then, we let them sit for a few more days in a salt-water solution (almost like brining a turkey) and the next step will be to bake them. Will these taste anything like the seeds you buy in the store? Who knows. But it certainly gained us an appreciation into how much work goes into those snacks.
The head of the sunflower, will all of the seeds nearly pluckedPost-picking, setting out all of the sunflower seeds prior to soaking
So as we say goodbye to another wonderful summer on Promacks Farm, we are grateful for another good season, and hopeful for what our approaching seasons will bring.
Stay tuned for updates on what to plant now for your winter garden…
This morning, we had a wonderful surprise customer. Our Farm Stand is about closed now, but people will still occasionally drive up to the front porch to see if anything is available. One of our long-standing Stand customers, Anna, arrived this morning with her children in tow. She talked with us about a wonderfully helpful “garden chart” from Digitalseed.com that helps gardeners plan when to start planting seeds for next season. Anna, we loved chatting Farm stuff with you this morning, please feel free to contact Farmer Dave at david[at]promacksfarm.com, he’d like to stay in touch and continue to talk Farm.
For those interested in the garden chart, here is that chart:
