RFF's Tomato Festival and "farms tour"

Red Fire Farm in Granby, Mass.

Yesterday was Red Fire Farms' 2010 Tomato Festival and Tomato Trot. Seth ran in the 5k Tomato Trot, and Stacey volunteer at the event. Seth finished the rest in 34th place, with a time of 26' 34". For volunteering, Stacey got a basket of fresh veggies (celery, eggplant, carrots, cucbumbers, and garlic). Seth just got sore legs.

The Tomato Festival was lots of fun. With LOTS of people and venders, chefs and artisans, it was lots of fun. This year RFF grew 137 types of tomatoes--the line was too long to wait for us to try them, but we picked lots instead. We picked LOTS of paste tomatoes to make sauce with.

After the Tomato Festival we drove  to Tougas Farms in Northboro, Mass. to pick peaches. we picked a half bushel, and ate about a dozen while picking. We hope to make peach jam, peach cobbler, and peach sauce with them.

After Tougas, we got back in the car and drove to Eastleigh Farm in Framingham, Mass. Eastlaigh is a dairy farm that serves Raw Milk. It also has ice cream cones for $1.50!! We bought two gallons and hope to make butter, butter milk, and mozzarella, with some milk for drinking. Good times! That completed our three farm tour of Massachusetts. We hoped to get to Pete and Jen's Backyard Birds (farm) in Concord, Mass. But we needed to return the rental car. Maybe next time.

Here's a map of our trip.

View Mass Farms Tour in a larger map

Our Garden - Tomatoes!

We have LOTS of cherry tomatoes growing in our garden now. And the larger varieties are coming along well. We get about a quart or two of cherries each week with a half dozen larger tomatoes. Yum!!

Today we picked up half of our honey share!! This stuff is liquid gold, and tastes like "sunshine!"

Pick Your Own - STRAWBERRIES

Today we drove to Red Fire Farm (our CSA farm) in Granby, Mass. We picked 8 quarts of strawberries, then some peas, and finally some herbs.

Here's a slide show:

Congratulations, Sara Ecott!

Congratulations, Sara (and 2010 Boston College graduates).

Honeymoon - Day 10

It's day ten of our honeymoon, but since we most likely do not have internet access, I will be retroactively posting these.

Honeymoon - Day 9

It's day nine of our honeymoon, but since we most likely do not have internet access, I will be retroactively posting these.