The strawberry plants have been loving the warm sun and summer-like heat and are showing their appreciation of the weather by producing lots and lots of beautiful ruby-colored sweet strawberries. We have pint and half pint sizes over-flowing with sun-ripened strawberries available at the farmstand. In addition to the strawberries we have zucchini and summer squash, beets, pink, purple, and white easter egg radishes, sweet turnip, leafy green spinach, lettuce, kale, broccoli crowns, and chard; all organic and hand harvested with care this morning!

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.

It’s definitely feeling like summertime here at Langwater Farm! The sunflowers are blooming and we’ve just started picking our early tomatoes.  We also have delicious sweet corn from Cervelli Farms in Rochester, MA and blueberries from Ward’s Berry Farm in Sharon, MA these days.  And, of course we have plenty of our own organic produce, including the first of the tomatoes, basil, zucchini, summer squash, green beans, new potatoes, carrots, beets, spring onions, chard, kale, lettuce, cucumbers, Chinese cabbage, bok choy, fennel, and more.  Come by to see what we have!

First of our early tomatoes!

Everybody loves sweet corn!

Today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and we sure have been keeping busy here on the farm with harvesting, planting, weeding, and tending the crops as spring turns into summer.

Our farmstand shelves are bursting with delicious fresh produce these days: lettuce and radishes for your salads, bok choy and snow peas for your stir-fries, and baby carrots and sugar snap peas for your snacks.  Plus beautiful red and golden beets, colorful rainbow chard, green and golden zucchini, several varieties of kale, huge heads of spring broccoli, early greenhouse cucumbers, sweet spring onions, and more– our offerings change every day depending on what’s in season in our fields.  We are still getting some beautiful strawberries in, but the season is winding down (soon to switch over to blueberries!) so come by this week to enjoy the last of the berries for the spring.

We also have recently welcomed some new members to our farm family: six beautiful chickens!  We’re very happy to have such sweet, friendly hens, and they’ve been doing a great job eating bugs and laying eggs.  Come visit the chickens next time you’re at the farm.

And last but not least we’d like to invite you to join us at ourMid-Summer Farm Celebration on July 16!  Join us and Land For Good, a nonprofit organization that works to preserve active farmland in New England, for an evening featuring a delicious casual dinner made from our own produce, along with wine and hay rides.
Click here for tickets and to RSVP to the Farm Celebration.