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Klesick Family Farm Fall Festival Schedule of Events

Schedule of Events
10:00 Binding Oats
10:00 Hay rides all day long (except during tractor slow race)
10:15 Raffle
10:30 Farm Walk with Tristan
11:00 Raffle, Potato Digging
11:30 Threshing
12:00 Raffle
12:30 Farm Games: Obstacle Course, Tug-of-War, Balloon Toss, Sack Race
1:00 Raffle & Tractor Slow Race
1:30 Potato Digging
2:00 Raffle, Farm Walk with Tristan
2:30 Threshing
3:00 Raffle
4:00 The End
Thank you for coming!
Schedule is subject to change

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Think Canning!!

Summer is here and the local produce is coming on full swing! Unfortunately summer doesn’t last forever…take advantage of the opportunity and make up some delicious homemade salsa, tomato sauce, dill pickles, relish and canned or blanched & frozen green beans! You will be enjoying these savory veggies deep into winter, bringing warmth and memories of the summer sunshine! What’s more, this is a great way to ensure that the foods you feed your family don’t come out of  aluminum cans, with ingredients you cannot pronounce, from sources  outside the US. Once you taste homemade tomato sauce you will have a hard time going back to the store ever again!

You can even get the kids involved in preparing the veggies for the freezer or canning jar, nimble fingers are great at stemming green beans, and actually fit inside the canning jars! : )

Please contact us if you have any questions about quantities! We can often get case quantities of other produce items to you, ask!

Local Roma tomatoes: Ideal for making salsa, chutney, canning, and sauce! 25# box for $42

Local Green Beans, 10 lbs for $15.00

Local Pickling Cucumbers, 5 lbs  for $7.00

Dill, $1.50/small bunch (it’s young so has no seeds, you will have to use dried Dill seeds in addition to-this is all we could get organically grown!)

http://www.klesickfamilyfarm.com/main/order-vegetables

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Garlic

Garlic

 

Everybody loves garlic! This week and last week we have been picking and drying the 2010 crop. This year we grew a lot of garlic: a soft neck variety (Italian pink) and five different hard neck varieties. Sadly, I misplaced the planting schematic for the hard neck garlic and I can’t remember what varieties went where. Such is life. I do know that we have lots of garlic and it is beautiful.

This year, with this hot dry spell, we have been laying the garlic on the ground to cure. But because rain was in the forecast, I felt impressed to err on the side of caution and get the garlic into the barn and, more specifically, into the rafters to finish drying.

I had a few helpers to pick up the garlic so that we could transfer it into the barn. Maddy and Stephen are becoming good workers. Andrew is learning to drive the big farm truck, an important job for a 12 year old on our farm (we are working on shifting the big behemoth and getting used to the two speed rear end). We must have picked up 3,000 heads Thursday. Was I ever happy for the help – of course, Stephen and Maddy never turn down a bumpy farm ride on the back of Big Green (the farm truck)!

I will be adding garlic to your box of good in the next few weeks.

I am super excited to visit with each of you at our farm festival on August 21st.