Rutkowski Farm » Vegetables

Wrapping up a harvest season.

Paul — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:11:39 +0000

Our friends at Wing Road Farm had a great blog post about the impending end of the growing season this coming Saturday night.

I don’t think I could sum it up any better than that….so I won’t.

Thank you to everyone who patronized us this year. We’ve still got pumpkins and squash out at the stand, but beyond that we’re about done. We’ll be able to make at least one more farmer’s market as well.

Onions and resolutions

Paul — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:25:19 +0000

Completely unrelated hazy pic. The garlic field from 4-20

Today I planted a 300 foot row of onions (all the gory details are here). You may ask…what is he thinking. Yeah, I don’t know. Last year was, to a degree, a failure (with a fair amount of success mixed in). I didn’t really know what it would mean to have a little one running around, and despite all of the public pronouncements about scaling back, I probably planted as much as I did other years. The primary difference this past year was that we didn’t engage our friends for help and also lost Kathleen as a dedicated farmhand altogether. She’s a great mom, and I have no doubt that we will involve our little guy in the fun as soon as this summer. Still, there will probably be only one person working at a time.

The best way to approach all of this may be to build resolutions, so here goes.

Spend more time with family.
Work smarter, not harder
Get ahead of the weeds.
Trick Engage friends for help.
Be generous with those friends.
Constantly re-evaluate what is working, what isn’t.
Put up a hoop house.

Winter Farmers Market this Saturday!

Paul — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:55:48 +0000

I have more to write about garlic planting, but for the moment, I just want to throw out a reminder/notification that we’ll be at the Ballston Spa Indoor Farmers Market this Saturday from 9am to Noon. We don’t have a ton but here’s the rundown:

Garlic
Garlic Braids
Sprouts
Potatoes (White and Blue)
Butternut Squash
Sunchokes (aka Jerusalem Artichokes)

We hope to see folks there!

Here’s a map for those that don’t know where…

Pumpkin time…

Paul — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:39:25 +0000

Today in addition to all of the garlic prep we’ve been working on, we harvested our first batch of pumpkins. Where we lost all of our tomatoes this year, the pumpkins and butternuts were the exact opposite. We’ve got lots out there that will be harvested in the next few weeks.

For the first time we’ve grown pumpkins that are primarily for carving (as opposed to eating). A good number of these will be going to our friend’s Catskill wedding! Fun!

In the garlic news, we’ve posted the online store. Only three varieties available, as that’s all we have in quantity. The half pound bags listed are actually .57 pounds, which works out to $7/pound.