It was as if North Carolina wanted to remind me how beautiful she is, since I had been traveling last week in Colorado, which boasts of dramatic beauty. And so I arrived to the scene on the farm to welcome me home. While it is nice to travel and reconnect with old friends and experience different things, it is always nice to come home.
Blueberries are beginning to arrive on the scene. We just began picking ours, but it's hard to ever get enough to fill the Tuesday/Wednesday demand, but luckily, we have more than one certified organic blueberry farms in the neighborhood! This week's come from Fox Gap Farms outside of Morganton. Things here are transitioning out of some of the cool season crops into summer things like squash, cucumbers, and zucchini. Hopefully, it won't be long until peppers start rolling in. We're looking at shishitos in the next few weeks at least. And, it looks promising for some Creeksong sugar snap peas since our crop was a complete bust. We win some and lose some every year, but peas are very often on the losing side of that equation. Every once in a while we get lucky with a unusually cool spring and peas do well, but this year was not this year.
