| What's in season? |
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| Always in season: Jams and preserves from our fruit, raw honey, sweet maple syrup |
| Maple Syrup~ Fancy, grade A, grade B. Packed in plastic and tin, plus fancy glass bottles. Raw Honey from our bees Applesauce Apple Cider Jelly Apple Cider Vinegar Dill Pickles Dilly Beans Canned Pears Canned Peaches Canned Tomatoes |
| Jams made with our fruit: Strawberry Strawberry-Rhubarb Raspberry Blueberry 3-Berry Peach Apple-Maple Apple Butter Pear Butter Wildcrafted Violet and Mint Jellies |
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| January |
| In January, the world is quiet. Visitors at our farmstand will find: we likely have apples in storage. Also: fresh sweet cider, apple cider vinegar, varieties of squash, eggs, our pickles, jams and preserves, and maple syrup. Local wines, made with our fruit, are available from our retail area. Our greenhouses are "active": beds of spinach are sustained in a low-light, low temperature setting, and we will be able to resume harvesting sometime February. We prune the apple orchards. We are busy preparing for Vermont's most famous wintertime crop: maple syrup. 2007/2008 marks the second season of Post Oil Solutions' Winter Farmers' Market, happening in downtown Brattleboro's River Garden from 10-3 on specified Saturdays. Besides running through November and December, this year the market extends into the new year, open Jan. 12th, Feb. 16th, and March 15th. Eat local in style and shop farmer-direct through the winter! |
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| February and March |
| In the late winter/early spring months, the world stirs. The spring thaw has us rushing to tap our sugarbush and begin collecting sap from maples, as its pushed out the tree into our buckets or tubing system by expanding gases caused by the rapidly cycling day/night temperatures. Vacuum pumps draw more sap from each tree than sugarmakers in generations past could have imagined. Spinach and mesclun greens, as well as cider, will also be available through area retailers and restaurants. Eggs at the farmstand. |
| April and May |
| Springtime arrives and we scramble to seed transplants, prepare ground outdoors and plant crops as appropriate, prune our blueberries, grapes and peaches, and dream about the season's possibilities. The Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market opens the first Saturday of May. We bring spinach and mesclun greens, rhubarb, eggs, homemade root beer, pies and donuts. Cornmeal this year? |
| June |
| As the school year nears end we begin picking strawberries. Watch for PYO! Sour cherries come in around here somewhere. English peas, sugarsnap peas, fillet beans, lettuces, rhubarb, apple blossom honey. |
| July |
| When all goes as planned, hothouse tomatoes are ready. Our classic slicer tomatoes are vine-ripened, juicy and full of tomato flavor. The fruit is practically all usable- very little of the tomato is stemmy core. Also, roma tomatoes, sungold cherry tomatoes, heirloom varieties. Blueberries ripen toward the end of the month, as do our famed peaches. We pick fruit tree-ripened to give our customers that sweet, juicy peach experience. Not to be missed! PYO Blues. PYO Peaches when possible. |
| August |
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| Bloom peaks around the 10th of May. Photo: May 2007. |
| We harvest acres of rhubarb to press into juice for wine. Pulling rhubarb in late spring allows the plant to store energy over the summer months and remain vigorous for next year's growth. |
| Blueberry plants in May. Leaf buds have opened; fat fruit buds start to swell into bloom. |
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| Vistabella Apples June 8th, 2007 |
| The height summer is peak blueberry and peach season. Enjoy yellow and white freestone peaches all through August, as well as Paula Reds and Vistabellas August 20th on. Cherry plums, Shiro plums and large plums start early on and go through into early September. Clapp's Favorite Pear is a nice early pear, look for those the end of the month. Valiant, a Concord-type seeded grape, ripens. Prized for jelly with a sweet/sour flavor when eaten fresh, last week of August, early September. |
| September |
| Apples! Jonamacs, Tydeman's Red, Gravensteins and Paula Reds are earlier, other varieties ripen mid-month: Cortland, McIntosh, Gala, HoneyCrisp. Later September brings Macouns, Twenty Ounce, Empire, Wolf River. Bring the family out for fresh fruit in hilltop air! Pick-Your-Own! Pumpkins of all sizes, and squashes of all shapes, decorate our farmstand and complement the maples just starting to turn...later September. Bartlett Pears early on, Magness and Bosc pears later on. Fall Raspberries. Table Grapes. Cider Season! |
| October |
| Pick-Your-Own continues. Fall colors glow brightly under morning frost. Visit during the height of foliage and apple harvest. Golden Delicious, Baldwins, Northern Spy, Blue Pearmain, Pound Sweet, Macouns, Empires, Cortlands, Bancroft, Crandle apples, Bosc pears are available, as are pumpkins for pie and carving, squash to go with the maple syrup. Check in on our display hive to see what the bees are doing late fall. |
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| November and December news coming soon... |
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| The cherry plum knows no equal. July, 2006 |
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| The view from the top of Blueberry Hill. Our blueberry patch is cool and refreshing in the middle of August. |
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| We Ship Apple Gift Packs (October ~ December) and Maple Syrup (anytime). Please call for pricing: 802-254-9635 |
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