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I'll be there in studio 285. ArtAndes 

Squash and squash bread (famousthroughouttheamericas) 

Some nice photos too 

Saturday pumpkins

 I'll have a pile of pumpkins and squash at the mill city market, Saturday,  9-1pm.
Squash bread too
 I'm undecided on tomatoes    There's still some nice ones but I'm not sure I'll have time to harvest them.
   The days seems to get awful short this time of year

Pumpkins

 We completed pumpkin harvest today   It's quite a relief
 Now it's just a matter of delivery
  I'll have a nice selection at mill city market,  Saturday 9-1pm
Squash, gourds, melons, tomatoes and squash bread!

Squash

October 10 

Squash is harvested and stored 

Gourds too 

We're at about 75 percent on the pumpkins.    Hopefully it won't get too cold this weekend and we'll finish up pumpkin harvest next week 

This weekend I'll be at the mill city market in the train shed 

9am-1pm

Tomatoes, melons, squash, gourds, pumpkins, squash bread, honey 

Wear warm clothes 

Rain and mud

Oct 3rd 

Over 4 inches of rain this week has taken some of the fun out of harvesting 

 Fortunately, the folks that help me make it seem almost easy 

This weekend I'll have tomatoes, a few melons, squash, squash bread, pie pumpkins, pumpkins 

Saturday only;  mill city farmers market 9am-1pm 

I think that'll be the schedule through October...   Saturday only 

 Mill City market.  9-1pm 

Fall harvest has begun!

Sept 28/29

Last sweet corn of the season this weekend 

Saturday; mill city farmers market 8-1pm

Sunday; Mnpls Farmers market 6:30-1pm

There'll be tomatoes for several weeks 

Two more weeks of melons I hope 

Squash and squash bread coming soon....probably next week 

Sept 21/22

 Nice sweet corn and tomatoes for the weekend
 Rain or shine
    Saturday;  Mill City Farmers Mkt  8-1pm
Sunday; Mnpls farmers market 6:30-1pm

Sept 14/15

Plenty sweet corn for the weekend 

 Melons and tomatoes too 

Best corn for freezing will be Saturday 

Saturday; Mill City Farmers market 8-1pm

Sunday; Mnpls farmers market  6:30-1pm. Stall 250 

Probably 3 more weeks of sweet corn 

I'll be there Sunday

Sunday: Mnpls farmers market
 Sweet corn, melons,  a few tomatoes
Rain or shine
  Stall 250 or there-abouts

Honey!!

New crop honey sales start today 

Weds, UofMN market  11-2pm

Also this week, sweet corn, melons, watermelon, tomatoes 

Saturday,  mill city farmers market 8-1pm

Not sure about Sunday.  Depends on the corn 

Correction

unfortunately, not enough corn for the Thursday market
 Just today, Wednesday at the UofMN market,  11-2pm
Saturday mill city famers market 8-1pm
   Unlikely there'll be enough produce for Sunday market
Difficult season

Cool weather = slow ripening

This week; August 27

Weds UofMN market 11-2pm

Thursday,  Nicollet mall 10-2pm

Saturday,  mill city farmers market 8-1pm

 It is unlikely that I'll be at the Mnpls market Sunday   We're catching up to the corn 

I doubt the next planting will be ripe enough for Sunday 

Everything is ripening slowly.   I have yet the harvest a field melon of any sort 

  I think by Saturday there'll be red watermelon and some cantaloupe 

It'll be the following week before we get into yellow watermelon.   

Hopefully it'll be a warm September so we can all enjoy the melons into October 

Melons!!

Plenty melons this week. Tomatoes and sweet corn too 

Watermelon by the weekend, maybe Thursday 

Market schedule 

Weds,UofMn.  11-2pm

Thursday, Nicollet mall between 8th and 9th 10-2pm

Saturday, Mill City market 8-1pm

Sunday, Mnpls farmers market 6:30-1pm

Tomatoes, Sweet Corn, Melons

This week

Weds, UofMN market 11-2pm

Saturday, Mill City farmers market, 8-1pm 

Sunday, Mnpls Farmers market 6-1pm

Sweet corn for Sunday at Mnpls market

Yes!   There's more out in the first planting than I thought
 I'll be at the Mnpls market Sunday 6:00-1pm
 I'm not sure of the stall number
 Hopefully I'll find that out soon

Sweet Corn !!

 I'll have some sweet corn this week

 Weds at the UofMN market 11-2pm

Saturday at the Mill City Mkt.  8-1pm

 
        tomato pie, heirloom tomato, sweet corn, melon
  Great time of year
 

When life gives you tomatoes

Still waiting on the corn and melons 

 I think we'll starting picking both weds August 7th 

  

 Piles of wonderful tomatoes for the weekend 

Mill City Farmers market - 8am to 1pm

Melons, sweet corn, tomatoes

  The melons are 10 days - 2 weeks from ripe.  I think about the same with the sweet corn 

 I started growing sweet corn in 1989, 30 years ago; this is the latest crop by far 

   Plenty of nice tomatoes for the weekend 

 This weekend I'll be at the Mill City Farmers market with tomatoes and tomato bread 

8 am - 1 pm

Tomato bread

  Oven roasted tomatoes, lemon zest, a pinch of cinnamon 

       Very nice paired with chèvre 

Market schedule

  For the next couple weeks,

 - Wednesdays I'll be at the University of Minnesota farmers market  10-2pm
It's by the McNamara center on the Mnpls campus

-Saturday's I'll be at the Mill City farmers market 8-1pm

Currently there's tomatoes and rhubarb bread
 We're a couple weeks from sweet corn and melons    Probably August 1st on those
We're about at the end of rhubarb; will switch to a really nice tomato bread soon.
  Tomato, lemon zest, cinnamon

Once the corn gets ripe we'll be at markets 4 days a week

Weds; UofMn
Thursday: Nicollet Mall
Saturday; Mill City
Sunday; Mnpls Farmers market

tomorrow

Tomatoes this weekend at mill city market !

 I'll have 5 varieties of tomatoes this weekend at the mill city farmers market 8am-1pm 

Also, rhubarb bread and a tomato quick bread 

Melons greenhouse has become a jungle.   I think melons in 2-3 weeks 

July 4 crop report

We're just a week or 10 days from ripe tomatoes 

 Sweet corn probably late July

Currently I'm at the Mill City Farmers Mkt selling snap peas and the amazing rhubarb bread 

When the tomatoes are ripe I'll also sell Wednesdays at the UofMn market 

When there's sweet corn it'll be Weds, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 

Photos thanks to Steve Nodgaard 

Tomatoes turning?

    It's possible I'm hallucinating,(the greenhouses are very warm);  it appears to me the tomatoes are beginning to turn 

   

strawberry moon

Tomatoes!!

Sweet corn!!?

          Well, the sweet corn is up a few days later than last year.   So it's probably going to be late July or even the first of August before we have ripe corn.     I've not been in the field for a couple weeks and just hoping for a dry spell to get a few things planted.  

   The greenhouse crops look good     There should be snap peas in a couple weeks and tomatoes early July 

    I'll have rhubarb bread to sell at the mill city market the next couple weeks.   I'm in the train shed about half way down on the left 

Rhubarb quick bread

Rhubarb quick bread
  Amazing recipe I found in the nytimes,  the orange zest really sets off the tartness of the rhubarb
I add 1 tsp ginger

• 8 tablespoons/113 grams unsalted butter (1 stick), melted, plus more for the pan
• 1 cup/200 grams plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon freshly grated orange zest
• ⅓ cup whole-milk yogurt
• 2 large eggs
• 1 ¾ cup/223 grams all-purpose flour, plus more for the pan
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 ¾ cup/227 grams chopped rhubarb (8 ounces), cut into 1/4-inch pieces
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PREPARATION
0. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour an 8 1/2-inch-by-4 1/2-inch loaf pan.
0. In a large bowl, whisk together the butter, 1 cup of the sugar, orange zest and yogurt until well combined. Whisk in eggs. In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the flour mixture and 1 1/2 cups rhubarb to butter mixture and fold until combined. Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and smooth out the top. Sprinkle the top with the remaining 1/4 cup rhubarb and 2 tablespoons sugar. Bake until the loaf is golden brown and set and a skewer inserted in the center comes out with moist crumbs attached, 55 to 60 minutes.
0. Transfer the pan to a rack to cool for 10 minutes, then cut around the edges and carefully flip the loaf out of the pan. Turn it right side up and let it cool completely before slicing.