Bringing in the harvest in June
June started out sunny and 80 degrees and we actually had a week without rain, and then… rain 5 out of 7 days. We started the month picking strawberries and peas, and finished the month with peaches and corn! Truly a complete transition from spring to summer. Our bonus crop for June has been our tomatoes. We started harvesting the end of May, and all through June we have picked beautiful and flavorful slicing tomatoes and cherry tomatoes. What a treat for our CSA and farm market customers. Great flavor! Once summer starts, everything seems to happen at once—cucumbers, zucchini, pie cherries, sweet cherries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, corn, eggplant, gooseberries, currant, green beans—and suddenly we have lots of fruits and vegetables from which to select! After six months of just one fruit (apples all winter and then strawberries in May), it is pure pleasure to have apricots, cherries, raspberries, blueberries, gooseberries, peaches, currants, and plums all at the...