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We are now collecting the final ingredients for our Schoodic Salve.  In the late spring we collected comfrey and plantain leaf.  Now we are collecting calendula flowers when they are at peak bloom.  We can smell and feel the active resins as we collect these beautiful blossoms.  The soothing effect of calendula is an important constituent in the salve.  Once all the ingredients are dried, we will immerse them in oil and let that sit for 3 or more months.  Then we strain that oil and use it, along with beeswax, to make the salve.

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As the full moon passed on Friday, we saw a remarkable shift taking place around us.  The daylight hours are noticeably decreasing and the angle of light is changing.  All the fruits in the fields are responding by ripening at a rapid rate.  The sweet corn has tassels sending down pollen onto silks and swelling ears.  Lettuce that had been chomped by ground hogs, is slowly recovering, but it will be a couple of weeks before we have lettuce again.  We are spending most of our time each day collecting food from the various gardens.  Harvest season has begun!

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Tomatoes Basil Summer Squash Potatoes Green Beans Parsley

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Carrots - Our carrots are finally ready for sale.  After getting chomped down by groundhogs, these tenacious roots grew back their tops and sized up nicely.  Small, tender, sweet, delicious. Cucumbers - These fruits are bursting off the vine in one of our hoophouses and are ready for your sandwiches, salads, and snack plates. Green Beans - Purple, Green, Yellow, Spekled...these fresh beans will be in your belly before you get them home.  Crisp and refreshing.

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4 Ripe Tomatoes (quartered) 1 Cup Basil ½ Cup Parsley Garlic (2-3 cloves) ¼ tsp Salt Pinch Black Pepper   Add all ingredients to Food Processor. With the processor going add 1 cup oil (Extra Virgin Olive or other raw cold pressed oil)   Covers 1 Pound pasta or more

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It is obvious now that the sunlight hours are waning because everything is blossoming.  Cucumbers, beans, winter squash, summer squash, and even sweet corn are all putting out blossoms and tassels as they prepare for fruit and seed.  The cucumbers, melons, and sweet potatoes are hustling to vine out and take over one of our hoop houses, creating a sea of green.  We have shifted in a big way to harvest mode as the summer squash and tomatoes have started producing.  Enjoy the fruits of the season!

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