Heirloom Tomato Week!!

Hello!

Two words … HEIRLOOM TOMATOES! This is it. The week to end all weeks in 2009. The tomatoes have ripened and we’ll have a few hundred pounds to send home with you. We will set them all up on the outermost tables. And as was the case last week, there’s no pre-selecting your tomatoes before the bell rings. We have to keep it fair and minimize conflict. (There was actually some nice camaraderie last Saturday when the whole group of customers was irritated en masse about the new policy!)

We will also be bringing loads of onions. These are just about the best onions we’ve ever grown. Someone actually asked me what we do with onions, to which I almost asked what you CAN’T do with onions! It’s like garlic. Does a meal go by without it?

Bill may also have some muskmelons (incorrectly A.K.A. cantaloupe) and watermelon. I have a serious genetic defect in Bill’s mind because I just don’t like muskmelon (or honeydew for that matter). It does look beautiful and has such a nice mouth-feel. I hope you enjoy it as much as he does! (By the way, you almost NEVER see real cantaloupe in America. It’s not grown in many parts of this country. The stuff in the stores is really muskmelon.)

We are preparing for the house move, which starts on Monday. They’ll do some light excavating around the foundation so that they can run steel beams under it. They’ll actually move it over the course of a few days later that week. I think we have the logistics worked out – we’re staying at one neighbor’s house, our freezer is bunking with another family, and our ice blocks will be visiting Henry Brockman’s freezer. It takes a village, you know.

Here’s what we’ll have on Saturday …

Tomatoes
Eggplant
Leeks
Poblano Peppers
Sweet Peppers
Green Bell Peppers
Cucumbers
Green beans
Dragon tongue beans
Summer squash
Potatoes
Carrots
Shallots
Fennel
Swiss chard
Head Lettuce
Beets
Onions
Garlic
Basil
Broccoli
Radicchio
Cabbage (Red)
Okra

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call us at 309-467-9228. You can also email us at blueschoolhouse@yahoo.com, although during the farm season we can’t guarantee that we’ll be checking the email as often as usual.

Best,
Mercy