The Weblog
This page contains news, event information, and other items added by the market managers.
Spring and Snow?
Spring produce continues as last week. Again in limited quantities.
Can you believe they are calling for snow the beginning of this week? It is springtime in central Pennsylvania.
These things being said… now is a time for some education. We at Green"er" Acres Farm love to teach as much as grow. We also believe strongly in supporting LOCAL agriculture. For these reasons, we only sell items in our marketplace that are grown and/or produced right here in the Southern Alleghenies region. We will never buy from auctions and pass those items off as our own. And for those reasons you will see lulls in some produce items due to the weather conditions. We are blessed to raise some items in a high tunnel through the winter, which allows us to have a small jump on the spring season, but with the roller coaster ride of temperatures recently and the weeks of lots of rain and snow, a lot of the grounds that we all plant into are not quite ready for planting. And we are a few weeks away yet from our anticipated last frost date for our area.
Eating locally is definitely a lesson in seasonality. (You will be hard pressed to find decent tasting tomatoes in Central PA in winter time, even with heated greenhouses.) It is also a lesson on food availability, as you will not see items like bananas and pineapple, as they are not grown here in our area. We do our best to push the limits by using season extension methods and alternative growing methods, but we are still slaves to Mother Nature.
Be assured the seasons will soon stabilize (hopefully) and full time growing will start again. Many of us have greenhouses and grow rooms full of plants waiting to go out to their summer homes. We are as anxious as you are.
No video this week, stay tuned for next week.
