Ripeness Report for 7/20 and 7/21

Summer time has been super busy for us at Yummy Tummy Farms with bountiful harvests of lettuce, arugula, shallots, and garlic; moreover, new crops are ripening and ready to be harvested.

Yummy Tummy Farms is located at 5611 Doorn Lane in San Jose, CA and is open from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm; earlier or later by special prearranged appointment. If you have a need to come by earlier or later, please email yummytummyfarms@gmail.com

We still have lots of beautiful butter leaf lettuce and peppery arugula to cool you down in the summer heat with a refreshing salad. The honeybees have been healthy and have made plenty of extra honey to share, so come and get it!

Delicious Local Honey

Produce Prognosticator:

Organic Heirloom Tomatoes– full crop (over 30 varieties) within two weeks and some limited availability this weekend 7/20-7/21

Ghost Cherry

Basil– within two weeks (Genovese, Lime, Royal Thai)

Tomatillos– within two weeks (Green and Purple)

Peppers – within two weeks (multiple varieties sweet to spicy)

Purple Beauty-Bell Pepper

Crop Focus: Cucumbers

Our latest crops to ripen are sassy pickling and delicious Marketmore cucumbers. Marketmore cucumbers are the perfect snack for hot weather with a simple sprinkle of pink salt or you can dress them up a bit by adding a squeeze of lemon and a drop of hot sauce as well.

Marketmore Cucumbers

Our pickling cucumbers are also ripe and ready to harvest. We are planning on making several batches of pickles this season: dill, semi-dill, bread-n-butter, sweet, hot-n-spicy, and all variations in between. We will be preserving our pickles via the pressure canning method so as to have some shelf-stable jars for winter. We will also do several small batches of refrigerator pickles that we will consume regularly with lunches and dinners over the summer and throughout the fall.

Pickling Cucumbers

So I ask you my dear readers:

1. What is your favorite type of pickle or types of pickles?

2. What are your favorite recipes for preparing pickles?

3. How do you serve your fresh homemade pickles or what do your serve fresh homemade pickles with?

Memorial Day Weekend-Heirloom: Tomato, Eggplants, and Pepper Plants For Sale

The heirloom tomato plants are ready! We currently have over twent-five varieties of tomato plants available for sale. All 1 gallon plants are $5 each and 4 inch plants are two for $5. All plants have been raised in accordance with organic and biodynamic growing standards. You will find the complete list of what’s growing on our website yummytummyfarms.com and we will be open from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm this Saturday 5/25 and Sunday 5/26 unless we sell out sooner. The farm is located at 5611 Doorn Lane in San Jose, CA. Call us at 408-320-5365 or email yummytummyfarms@gmail.com for more information or with questions. Next weekend, may be the very last weekend for buying your plants from us, so do not delay. See you this weekend!

Sweet Banana Peppers- Perfect for fresh eating or pickling

We also have plenty of organic local honey available- Yummy!

Delicious Local Honey

 

What’s Ripe at Yummy Tummy Farms 10/13 and 10/14?

Yummy Tummy Farms still has heirloom tomatoes; however, we are in our final few weeks of tomato season.  The sweetest, juiciest, and most deeply colored tomatoes will go first, so if you want local, organic, and biodynamically grown tomatoes then I humbly suggest that you find your way to Yummy Tummy Farms as quickly and safely as possible. I hope to see you and your family at the farm very soon! Our hours will be Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon to 4:00pm or until we sell out.

Dana’s Dusky Rose: Good acid/sweetness balance

Lemon Boy: Pure yellow & very popular hybrid

Ghost Cherry: Largest cherry we grow & amazing sweet flavor

Green Cherokee: So sweet that you will not believe that this is a green tomato! Beautiful green that blushes yellow and orange.

Mortgage Lifter: The color, size, & sweet flavor are so consistent with this tomato that the original grower sold enough of these tomatoes to pay his mortgage off hence the name…

Hawaiian Pineapple: Luscious, meaty, & lovely with colors that will blow your mind!

Solar Flare: Meaty, mind blowing colors & flavor

White Oxheart: Stunning white tomato that is so beautiful it blushes pink and its heart shaped. We love with this tomato!

Cherry Tomatoes: Sungold, Green Doctors, Riesentraube, Amish Gold, & White Cherry

We still have lots of incredible eggplants, chili peppers and zucchini. Its officially fall and this delicious assortment will NOT last long. Come out and see our fall and winter gardens too. Sorry, but our delicious local, organic, raw honey is sold out for the season, but there will be more early next year.

What’s Going On At Yummy Tummy Farms?

The tomato season is on the decline, but we still have quite a bit of incredibly delicious organic, biodynamic, heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. We will be open for limited hours because we will be focused on homesteading activities all weekend long; moreover, this means we will be preserving our harvest, removing old unproductive plants, planting our fall/winter gardens, picking our San Marzano 3 tomatoes and making all manners of sauce, making fruit jam, making relish from our green tomatoes, dehydrating tomatoes and other vegetables to make vegetable chips. We will be checking our honeybee hives to see if we will be able to collect any more of our delicious local wildflower honey; however, observation so far, we are not optimistic that we will be able to collect any more honey for this calendar year, but the bees are miracle workers and you just never know, so stayed tuned! These are all valuable homesteading skills that Yummy Tummy Farms teaches through our Learning Annex and if you are interested in learning more about what classes we teach check out our website through this link:

http://www.yummytummyfarms.com/workshops-classes-and-apprenticeship-programs.html

Here are some pictures of ready-to-pick produce:

Purple Beauty-Bell Pepper

Listada de Gandia-Eggplant

Orient Express Eggplant

Orient Charm-Eggplant

Jaunne Flamme

Black Bear

Red Padron-Pepper

We will be open Saturday 9/29 and Sunday 9/30 from 12 noon until 4:00 pm or other times by special appointment, just call us at 408-320-5365.

What’s Ripe at Yummy Tummy Farms? Tomato Bash 2012

Yummy Tummy Farms (YTF) has heirloom tomatoes o plenty! We grow over thirty-six different varieties of tomato, mostly heirloom, but a few hybrids are so delicious that we are compelled every year to plant; for example, Early Girl, Sungold, and Lemon Boy. The sweetest, juiciest, and most deeply colored tomatoes will go first, so if you want local, organic, and biodynamically grown tomatoes then I humbly suggest that you find your way to Yummy Tummy Farms as quickly and safely as possible. I hope to see you and your family at the farm very soon! Our hours will be Sunday ONLY from 10:00am to 4:00pm or until we sell out. Saturday 9/22, YTF will be a guest farm at Tomato Bash 2012 http://events.mercurynews.com/cupertino_ca/events/show/280527105-tomatobash-tomato-tasting-party in Cupertino, CA at Memorial Park from 12 noon to 6 pm or until the tomatoes sell out. We are nearing the end of tomato season, so hurry out to Yummy Tummy Farms!

Dana’s Dusky Rose: Good acid/sweetness balance

Lemon Boy: Pure yellow & very popular hybrid

Ghost Cherry: Largest cherry we grow & amazing sweet flavor

Green Cherokee: So sweet that you will not believe that this is a green tomato! Beautiful green that blushes yellow and orange.

Mortgage Lifter: The color, size, & sweet flavor are so consistent with this tomato that the original grower sold enough of these tomatoes to pay his mortgage off hence the name…

Hawaiian Pineapple: Luscious, meaty, & lovely with colors that will blow your mind!

Solar Flare: Meaty, mind blowing colors & flavor

White Oxheart: Stunning white tomato that is so beautiful it blushes pink and its heart shaped. We love with this tomato!

Cherry Tomatoes: Sungold, Green Doctors, Riesentraube, Amish Gold, & White Cherry

I hope you have enjoyed looking at less than 25% of what is ripe and ready and Yummy Tummy Farms, just imagine all the one’s that are still there and waiting for you to find them? We still have lots of incredible eggplants, chili peppers, zucchini, and local, raw honey straight from the hives to remind you it’s summertime. Its summertime and this delicious assortment will NOT last long.

What’s Ripe at Yummy Tummy Farms 9/8 and 9/9?

Yummy Tummy Farms has heirloom tomatoes o plenty! We grow over thirty-six different varieties of tomato, mostly heirloom, but a few hybrids are so delicious that we are compelled every year to plant; for example, Early Girl, Sungold, and Lemon Boy. The sweetest, juiciest, and most deeply colored tomatoes will go first, so if you want local, organic, and biodynamically grown tomatoes then I humbly suggest that you find your way to Yummy Tummy Farms as quickly and safely as possible. I hope to see you and your family at the farm very soon! Our hours will be Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am to 4:00pm or until we sell out. 

Dana’s Dusky Rose: Good acid/sweetness balance

Lemon Boy: Pure yellow & very popular hybrid

Ghost Cherry: Largest cherry we grow & amazing sweet flavor

Green Cherokee: So sweet that you will not believe that this is a green tomato! Beautiful green that blushes yellow and orange.

Mortgage Lifter: The color, size, & sweet flavor are so consistent with this tomato that the original grower sold enough of these tomatoes to pay his mortgage off hence the name…

Hawaiian Pineapple: Luscious, meaty, & lovely with colors that will blow your mind!

Solar Flare: Meaty, mind blowing colors & flavor

White Oxheart: Stunning white tomato that is so beautiful it blushes pink and its heart shaped. We love with this tomato!

Cherry Tomatoes: Sungold, Green Doctors, Riesentraube, Amish Gold, & White Cherry

I hope you have enjoyed looking at less than 25% of what is ripe and ready and Yummy Tummy Farms, just imagine all the one’s that are still there and waiting for you to find them? This will be the last weekend for some of our early tomato varieties due to their  extreme popularity such as: Sungold Cherry Tomato, Yellow Brandywine, Amish Gold, and White Cherry Tomatoes. We still have lots of incredible eggplants, chili peppers, zucchini, and local, raw honey straight from the hives to remind you it’s summertime. Its summertime and this delicious assortment will NOT last long.

What’s Ripe at Yummy Tummy Farms & Hours for 9/1, 9/2 and 9/3

Yummy Tummy Farms has heirloom tomatoes o plenty! We grow over thirty-six different varieties of tomato, mostly heirloom, but a few hybrids are so delicious that we are compelled every year to plant; for example, Early Girl, Sungold, and Lemon Boy. The sweetest, juiciest, and most deeply colored tomatoes will go first, so if you want local, organic, and biodynamically grown tomatoes then I humbly suggest that you find your way to Yummy Tummy Farms as quickly and safely as possible. We also put a fresh batch of our local, organic, raw, wildflower honey into jars this week, but this is the last batch of spring honey meaning once its gone, its gone! I hope to see you and your family at the farm very soon! Our hours will be Saturday, Sunday, & Monday from 10:00am to 4:00pm or until we sell out. 

Dana’s Dusky Rose: Good acid/sweetness balance

Lemon Boy: Pure yellow & very popular hybrid

Ghost Cherry: Largest cherry we grow & amazing sweet flavor

Green Cherokee: So sweet that you will not believe that this is a green tomato! Beautiful green that blushes yellow and orange.

Mortgage Lifter: The color, size, & sweet flavor are so consistent with this tomato that the original grower sold enough of these tomatoes to pay his mortgage off hence the name…

Hawaiian Pineapple: Luscious, meaty, & lovely with colors that will blow your mind!

Solar Flare: Meaty, mind blowing colors & flavor

White Oxheart: Stunning white tomato that is so beautiful it blushes pink and its heart shaped. We love with this tomato!

Cherry Tomatoes: Sungold, Green Doctors, Riesentraube, Amish Gold, & White Cherry

I hope you have enjoyed looking at less than 25% of what is ripe and ready and Yummy Tummy Farms, just imagine all the one’s that are still there and waiting for you to find them? We still have lots of incredible eggplants, chili peppers, zucchini, and local, raw honey straight from the hives to remind you it’s summertime. Its summertime and this delicious assortment will NOT last long.

What’s Ripe at Yummy Tummy Farms 8/25 and 8/26?

Yummy Tummy Farms has heirloom tomatoes o plenty! We grow over thirty-six different varieties of tomato, mostly heirloom, but a few hybrids are so delicious that we are compelled every year to plant; for example, Early Girl, Sungold, and Lemon Boy. The sweetest, juiciest, and most deeply colored tomatoes will go first, so if you want local, organic, and biodynamically grown tomatoes then I humbly suggest that you find your way to Yummy Tummy Farms as quickly and safely as possible. I hope to see you and your family at the farm very soon! Our hours will be Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am to 4:00pm or until we sell out. 

Dana’s Dusky Rose: Good acid/sweetness balance

Lemon Boy: Pure yellow & very popular hybrid

Ghost Cherry: Largest cherry we grow & amazing sweet flavor

Green Cherokee: So sweet that you will not believe that this is a green tomato! Beautiful green that blushes yellow and orange.

Mortgage Lifter: The color, size, & sweet flavor are so consistent with this tomato that the original grower sold enough of these tomatoes to pay his mortgage off hence the name…

Hawaiian Pineapple: Luscious, meaty, & lovely with colors that will blow your mind!

Solar Flare: Meaty, mind blowing colors & flavor

White Oxheart: Stunning white tomato that is so beautiful it blushes pink and its heart shaped. We love with this tomato!

Cherry Tomatoes: Sungold, Green Doctors, Riesentraube, Amish Gold, & White Cherry

I hope you have enjoyed looking at less than 25% of what is ripe and ready and Yummy Tummy Farms, just imagine all the one’s that are still there and waiting for you to find them? We still have lots of incredible eggplants, chili peppers, zucchini, and local, raw honey straight from the hives to remind you it’s summertime. Its summertime and this delicious assortment will NOT last long.

What’s Ripe? Farm Hours and Update for August 17th-19th

Yummy Tummy Farms will be open from 6:00pm-7:30pm Friday 8/17 with prior appointment and 10:00am to 4:00pm Saturday 8/18 and Sunday 8/19. If those hours are not convenient, please email yummytummyfarms@gmail.com attn: Farmer Donald and I will do my best to accommodate your schedule and arrange a mutually agreeable alternative time.  If we sell out early, it is always possible that we may close early, so arrive early for best selection. There are so many things ripening everyday that it is difficult to capture everything, so we hope to see you and your family very soon!

What’s Ripe?

Rainbow of Cherry Tomatoes

Clara White Eggplant: Beautiful Creamy White Globes

Kermit: Stunning Thai Eggplant

Bianca White Bell Pepper

Orient Express Japanese Eggplant

Pepperoncini Peppers

Spring Honey- Raw, Organic, and Delicious!

Jaunne Flamme-Small Yellow/Orange

Jetstar-Medium Red, nearly perfect

Pink Beauty-Medium. So good it blushes…

Purple Beauty-Bell Pepper. Stunning color: “Pops” on the plate!

Raveena: Exotic Japanese Eggplant, very unique

Riesentraube- Cherry tomato

Sungold” Cherry tomato, super sweet, very limited quantities

“White”-Cherry tomato: Rare and special

Red Padron-Pepper: Perfectspiciness

Listada de Gandi-Eggplant: Beauty beyond words, reserved for our best farm supporters due to limited availability

Indigo Rose- Black “Super” Tomatoes which are reserved for our best farm supporters due to limited availability

Lots more pictures to come, especially heirloom tomatoes and more peppers- check back early and often!

What’s Ripe? Farm Hours and Update for August 11th-12th

Yummy Tummy Farms will be open from 10:00am to 4:00pm Saturday 8/11 and Sunday 8/12. If those hours are not convenient, please email yummytummyfarms@gmail.com attn: Farmer Donald and I will do my best to accommodate your schedule and arrange a mutually agreeable alternative time.

What’s Ripe?

Clara White Eggplant: Beautiful Creamy White Globes

Kermit: Stunning Thai Eggplant

Bianca White Bell Pepper

Orient Express Japanese Eggplant

Pepperoncini Peppers

Spring Honey- Raw, Organic, and Delicious!

Jaunne Flamme-Small Yellow/Orange

Jetstar-Medium Red, nearly perfect

Pink Beauty-Medium. So good it blushes…

Purple Beauty-Bell Pepper. Stunning color: “Pops” on the plate!

Raveena: Exotic Japanese Eggplant, very unique

Riesentraube- Cherry tomato

Sungold” Cherry tomato, super sweet, very limited quantities

“White”-Cherry tomato: Rare and special

Red Padron-Pepper: Perfect medium hot spiciness

Listada de Gandi-Eggplant: Beauty beyond words, reserved for Kickstarter supporters. If you want one, please support our Kickstarter project.

Lots more pictures to come, especially heirloom tomatoes and more peppers- check back early and often!