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Summer is over

August 01, 2011 Filed in: Farm

Sharon and the girl's went to North Star Orchard today on Route 233 in Kirkland, NY to pick blueberries. The bushes were just about done producing. The end of blueberry season marks the end of summer and the season's energy and the quick condensing of late summer. Here in Central New York and the local micro-climate of Clinton, NY in particular, Strawberries make the arrival of Summer.

The days will quickly shorten now and the plants will put all their energy into fruiting. It will be all we can do to keep up with the harvest until the first frost kills everything off. But that's a ways off yet. Now is the time of good eating