Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Goodbye Harvest Season!

The end of of New Jersey’s harvest season is coming. We have a couple weeks left and can only get the leafy greens, winter squashes, peppers, potatoes, and kiwi berries. We’ve already started getting citrus from Florida and California and will begin to source more from these winter growing states like the pineapples. I’ve enjoyed the fresh Jersey produce this summer. It was a bumper crop of tomatoes and the berries, cukes, carrots, peas, beans, basil, broccoli were all so delicious! 
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Enjoy! Marnie