CROP ABUNDANCE RECIPES: ZUCCHINI

 

 

 

 

 

  ZUCCHINI RECIPES

Well the time has come for us all to be managing “crop abundance”. I don’t want to call it “overabundance” or any other term with negative connotation. We need to be happy, delighted, thankful for this time of abundance! My friend Beth was being extremely generous with her bounty of zucchini. I happily obliged her generosity and made some of my favorite zucchini dishes tonight. 

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BERRY HARVEST TIME

 

BERRY TIME HAS COME TO THE FINGERLAKES

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White and black mulberries, red currants and wild black raspberries

A wonderful bounty of fruits are ripening around the Fingerlakes.  Strawberries are winding down and only a few farms have open picking:  Indian Creek in Ithaca and Grisamore Farms in Locke.  Cherries  are ripe now and several farms are already picked out.  It wasn’t a great year for cherries and some orchards lost their crops.  Grisamore and Littletree Orchards in Newfield have cherries and I’m not sure if anyone else has them anymoreGrisamore and Indian Creek also have U-Pick raspberries. And Littletree has cultivated their black raspberries which are great picking right now. On our land we have ripe red currants, black and white mulberries and wild black raspberries (black caps).  Jam making is in full gear.

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