Langwater Farm

The weather is getting a little cooler, the days are getting shorter, and fall is in the air.  Here at Langwater Farm, we’ve been enjoying the sunny days between the rainstorms, bringing in the harvest of winter squash, roots, and greens, and planting winter crops in our high tunnels.

This October we will be spending our weekends giving free hayrides through our farm to the pick-your-own-pumpkin patch. Come by on a Saturday or Sunday to check out the farm from the hay wagon, and choose out your own fall pumpkins. We will also be open and doing hay rides on Monday, October 10 for Columbus Day to give the kids a chance to visit the farm on their break from school!

What’s fresh at the farmstand?

We have all kinds of fall deliciousness at the farmstand right now, including sweet and hearty winter squash (butternut, acorn, delicata, kabocha, buttercup and sweet dumpling) and lots of roots like potatoes (including fingerlings and blue potatoes!), beets, carrots, turnips, and radishes.  Salad greens are back, including lettuce, arugula, and spinach, and we have gorgeous cooking greens as well: chard, kale, and collards.  Come by soon to enjoy the last of the summer goodies: sweet peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, and hot peppers.  And we have a great array of delicious apples from Brookfield Farm: Macintosh, Cortlands, and Macouns.

And of course, don’t forget PUMPKINS! And all the other farmy fall decorations: mums, corn stalks, and decorative gourds of all sizes, small and large (many of which are actually delicious as well!).  Fall is a beautiful and abundant time on the farm– come by to see for yourself!

Summer on the farm is officially delicious.  We’ve been loving the melon harvest: orange canteloupes, green galia melons, honeydews, yellow canary melons, pink and yellow watermelons– all have been super sweet and full of the best flavor of summer.  The tomatoes are pouring in, too: from perfectly ripe red beauties to the funky, knobbly, multicolored heirlooms with their fantastic flavors.  They’re sweet and delicious, great with pasta, made into salsa, or just sliced on top of some good bread with a sprinkle of salt.  We have fantastic cucumbers, great for cool summer salads or pickling.  Plus, we have our own delicious organic sweet corn.  And plenty of other veggies: onions, garlic, basil, beets, new potatoes, green beans, wax beans, eggplants, green bell peppers, sweet yellow and orange peppers, plus our own organic strawberries.  Not to mention beautiful bouquets fresh every day! Come by to see what we have– it changes all the time.