status of farm 5/15/20

Farm and market is expected to be open Sat. 5/16/20, regular hours from 7:30am til 1:00pm. U-Pick will be only available for thornless blackberries, but NO VEGETABLE PICKING due to rain we received this afternoon. The berry fields are covered in grass and drain much better than the plowed ground in the vegetable fields, as you can see in these photos taken 6:00 pm Friday 5/15/20 after the rain.

Blackberry fields, right after the rain Friday afternoon 5/15/20. This field should be well drained by Saturday morning, 5/16/2020.

One of the vegetable picking fields right after the rain Friday afternoon 5/15/20, so you can see why there will not be any vegetable picking Saturday 5/16/20.

U-Pick tomato row, as of 5/15/20. You all are asking when they will be ripe, so you can see here lots of green ones but no red. We will remove the "Do not pick yet" sign when the farmer tells me they are ready to pick. And green ones are NOT available to pick at this time.

Tex-Star Peaches still maturing, but not ready for the farmer to pick and sell in the market. They have color, but will about double in size when they are fully mature. This is one reason we don't have U-Pick peaches--just because they have color, doesn't mean they are anywhere near ready to pick. The farmer will pick them at the optimum time.

This one's for all you fig lovers who have been asking how the figs are coming along. These are Celeste, still dripping with rain from our storm this afternoon 5/15/20. The farmer says the Celeste will be the first variety ready, and they are bigger than ever before, possibly because the trees are more mature. So it is looking great so far for the Celeste variety.

A few of the blackberries picked by a customer this morning. 5/15/20

Delicata squash that we will be selling pre-picked in the market probably next week. None quite ripe yet, but they are looking really great so far. Sorry, they will not be available for U-Pick. 5/15/20