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| Brooks prunes. These are such a delight. The trees are loaded this year, not so every year. We are feeling lucky! |
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| Our earliest Asian pears. |
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| A slightly tougher skinned Asian pear. Ripens a little later. So very crunchy. |
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| Slicing cucumbers from the field. |
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| Two varieties of yellow crookneck squash. One is bumpy, one is smooth. These are from our second planting of summer squash. |
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| Very young and tender skinned summer squash. The zucchini are showing dust from our neighbor's field work. |
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| Grams and Other Mary have a little helper this morning. |
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| Anna and Scott "clean" the kohlrabi. They are taking off the extra leaves while their pup looks on. |
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| My great niece who lives at the farm just returned from her first day of kindergarten. Looking pretty spiffy! |
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| Loving her new backpack. Sweet girl :) |
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| A large collection of grapes. |
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| Bagged grapes. We try to package them so they don't squish each other in their sacks in the harvest boxes. |
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| Red noodle beans. These are pretty strange looking. They do hold their color when cooked. |
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| Green beans waiting to be bagged. |
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| Red jalapenos. |
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| Hungarian wax peppers. These are hot to me. |
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| A smaller slicing cucumber with a few lemon cucumbers. |
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| Tasty yellow and red mini bells along side green bells. |
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| One of our favorites here at the farm. Fried yellow crookneck squash. Slice, toss in flour and garlic salt and fry in olive oil or butter. The best. |
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| Zucchini "noodles" are tossed in olive oil and lightly sauteed. |
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| Today's vegetable salad. So tasty. |
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| Pickled red onions in vinegar and oil. Crunchy and tasty. |
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| Pumpkin cookies with wonderful pumpkin frosting. |
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| What a treat. Lunch is always a variety of fresh vegetables in new and delicious ways. |
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| Lisa on the left, Anna on the right. Eating lunch with the cherry tomatoes. |
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| Bill, Faith and Mary (just joining us at the farm after her back surgery a few weeks ago, notice her brace) enjoying their lunches. |
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| Anna made just a few cookies for us. Mmmm. |
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| Orange and yellow carrots. They are very crisp. I particularly think the yellow ones are sweet. |
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| Today's tomato collection awaits bagging. |
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| Parsley is bright green and vibrant today. It smells really good, too. |
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| Blue salvia in the front, blue and white spires of veronica toward the back. A few light blue and white pincushion flowers, too. |
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| Another view, Lisa and I love blue flowers. There aren't as many choices when trying to grow blue flowers. The only flower color harder to find is black. A black flower? Hmm. |
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| A wide variety of carnations we grew from seed this past winter are starting to bloom. Usually perennials don't bloom until their second year. We are getting a fragrant bonus. |
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| Purple dahlias and snapdragons with fountain grass. |
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| Teddy Bear sunflowers with heavenly blue statice. |
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| Different colored zinnias, pink asters and the very first Sweet William. We grew them from seed this past winter and they, too, are blooming early. |
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| The last few blue delphinium with the different types of orange zinnias. |
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| Blue statice with light yellow sunflowers. |
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| Snapdragons give these orange zinnias a different look. |
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| The table where Lisa is working. Many works in progress. |
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| Arching blue veronica with light colored zinnias and heavenly blue statice. |
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| If you could only smell this cart full of flowers. Clove scented carnations are so sweet. |
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| A few King apples off the big tree near the greenhouses. |
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| Mary in the background and Faith nearby marvel at the size of these apples. This is all for Week 16. See you next week, Lorrie |
