Closing in on the Tomatoes

The tomato plants look very healthy, the fruits are growing quite large. With a little rain, and if the plants keep growing at their current rate, our customers may see tomatoes earlier than they have in a while. This year has been good to our crops and allowed everything else to come in early, with a little luck the same will happen for our tomato plants. As always though, no promises can be made, so keep enjoying the produce on the tables now. Still, keep your fingers crossed for an early tomato season!

Summer Berries

For the first time ever One Straw Farm is growing strawberries in the middle of July. Due to annual popular demand for the little red berry, this summer Uncle Drew decided to try a new variety of strawberry that can withstand the midsummer heat. This new variety of strawberry is not as high yield as the cultivar that we grow at the beginning of the summer. While we will try our best to make sure that every customer can get strawberries while we have them, we can make no promises. What I can promise is that the strawberries that you do get will be sweet and fresh.

Useful Space

We are in the process of growing a field of blueberry bushes at the farm. The bushes are now 2 years into their growth and are bearing some fruit already, but they will not be fully developed for another few years. This means that the field that the bushes are growing in would  be relatively useless to us throughout those years in terms of gross farm production, but that is where a little creativity comes in to help. Over the past two years Uncle Drew has saw to it that those fields are still productive, even when the blueberries aren’t. Right now we have herbs like time and oregano growing in between the fledgling blueberry bushes, and we have peas growing in between the rows in the field. Now we have a field that would be unproductive to us over a four year span that is now growing three types of produce for our farm and our customers.