Westchester Wednesdays -- Please Don't Hurt Our Fruit
Quote de jour
"Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then, will the love of farm or country fill his heart."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every Wednesday, I feature some of my favorite people places or things from my neck of the woods, Westchester County.
Summer growing season is in full swing and what better than buying veggies grown within spitting distance of the cash register? Every time I visit Westchester Greenhouses & Farm in my town of Hartsdale N.Y., I marvel at the land. It's not huge as far as farms go, but it's one of the last working farms in Westchester County, and a scant thirty minutes from downtown Manhattan. Obviously everything sold there isn't grown there. Hello, pineapples and avocados, but alot are. What I'm most anticipating are their tomatoes.They're very late this year thanks to unusual monsoon-like weather and I'm praying to the veggie gods, they'll be okay. They grow several varieties and nothing is better than a bite of sun-warmed juicy goodness. Add a drizzle of olive oil, some fresh basil and mozzarella and you're tasting summer heaven.
The farm is as far from a supermarket experience as you can get, and as Martha Stewart likes to say, "It's a good thing." It's a tough business to be in, and this farm deserves all the support it can get. The farm is located at the corner of Secor Rd. and West Hartsdale Ave. in Hartsdale. Their extended summer hours are from 8 am to 7pm, seven days a week.
They have a spectacular array of flowers which evolves from spring pansies to autumn mums and everything in between.
I always bring my own bags and love their home-made signs. If you go, enjoy the bounty, just don't hurt their fruit.
"Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then, will the love of farm or country fill his heart."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every Wednesday, I feature some of my favorite people places or things from my neck of the woods, Westchester County.
Summer growing season is in full swing and what better than buying veggies grown within spitting distance of the cash register? Every time I visit Westchester Greenhouses & Farm in my town of Hartsdale N.Y., I marvel at the land. It's not huge as far as farms go, but it's one of the last working farms in Westchester County, and a scant thirty minutes from downtown Manhattan. Obviously everything sold there isn't grown there. Hello, pineapples and avocados, but alot are. What I'm most anticipating are their tomatoes.They're very late this year thanks to unusual monsoon-like weather and I'm praying to the veggie gods, they'll be okay. They grow several varieties and nothing is better than a bite of sun-warmed juicy goodness. Add a drizzle of olive oil, some fresh basil and mozzarella and you're tasting summer heaven.
The farm is as far from a supermarket experience as you can get, and as Martha Stewart likes to say, "It's a good thing." It's a tough business to be in, and this farm deserves all the support it can get. The farm is located at the corner of Secor Rd. and West Hartsdale Ave. in Hartsdale. Their extended summer hours are from 8 am to 7pm, seven days a week.
They have a spectacular array of flowers which evolves from spring pansies to autumn mums and everything in between.
I always bring my own bags and love their home-made signs. If you go, enjoy the bounty, just don't hurt their fruit.
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 8/5/2009 12:37 PM 
Categories: Food, Westchester County, Westchester Wednesdays, Photography
Tags: Hartsdale Farm Please don't hurt our fruit
Categories: Food, Westchester County, Westchester Wednesdays, Photography
Tags: Hartsdale Farm Please don't hurt our fruit
That's amazing to find this so close to the city. And beautiful photos. We need more places like this.
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Hi, Layla!
Too bad you don't live near me. I have four volunteer cherry tomato bushes (courtesy of fly-by birds) that are producing tomatoes like crazy. A couple weekends ago, I went out and picked off most of the ripe ones and filled four plastic bags with 60 to 80 tomatoes each and took them around to the friendlier neighbors and still had plenty left for myself. Luscious and juicy they are. It's time to go do another harvest out there. As I said at the beginning here, too bad you don't live close to me!
Tinch
P.S. I don't relish going outside to harvest inasmuch as it's 92 degrees and humid. We could use some of your rain!
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Lucky you! Make some sauce and freeze it. I had the same kind of luck with my raspberries this year. Oddly enough, friends not twenty minutes away in New Jersey have drool-worthy gorgeous tomatoes. There is no figuring out mother nature!
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