Faithful Fans, I have to offer my apologies for a rather sparse season of blogging. As you know, this year MCF decided to build on previous Northwest successes and has expanded to multiple East Coast locales.
Our first site, located on a fertile south-facing moraine in SW Syracuse was geared towards vegetables. We got off to a late start by planting in mid-June, and our selection of vegetables was not quite as locally inspired as I would have liked; specifically, we planted "Beefsteak" tomatoes and "Green Bell" peppers. And that was it. After much soil amending, watering, staking, etc, the tomato crop....got eaten by the deer. And the pepper crop.... got eaten by the deer. Shown above is the one (1) sad pepper that grew from the deer-shredded stump left of our 6 plants. The onion and squash are of course from Wegmans.
Our next site was at Otisco View Vineyards. I wish I had pictures because we did get a lot of grapes. They were small and unidentified varietals, but they sure were sweet and Maddy ate her fill throughout the summer. Stay tuned for more updates from OVV, as I just finished pruning back the canes and next year should be even better.
Lastly, the Warm Brook Venison Farm holds a lot of promise as our first meat producing facility. This weekend will be opportunity #1 to fill the Miller freezer with delicious free-range and organic red meat--and to avenge the loss of our tomato plants....
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it's been too long since i checked into the miller city farm... sorry to hear about your very large varmit problems, i hope you get to avenge your plants. i know it's not the same, but my dad is sending a message to the maryland deer population for you (i'm pretty sure the message will make it up to new york the way the internet spreads news these days). he's gotten one already and it's not even thanksgiving yet. hey, i'm taking a staff job at a hospital in baltimore in an icu - i figured it was time i tried something new. also travel nursing just isn't what it used to be. also theres a girl i like. but really it's about the trying something new... anyway, i'll be on the east coast until further notice so if ya'll are back this way and wanted to meet up yonder for some skiing and or plant avenging let me know. i would be more than happy to help you make the world a safer place for tomatos :)
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