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Apr 13, 2011

Early Morning Sunlight Bathes Wickham's Fruit Farm

While having a cup of coffee Sunday morning my eyelids opened enough to realize that the early low light seemed special in the way it was illuminating the orchard behind our yard. I gazed at it as I sipped, then thought, "Why don't I just put on shoes, go out and take a couple of shots, it's already in the low 40s!". So, I did that. Here are a few photos of the early light on the Wickham's Fruit Farm taken from our back yard and a little beyond.

Looking South

Three rows of apple trees have been cut down

Zooming In

The Wickham's Homestead established

in the mid 1600s

The white poles support electrified deer wire

Stacked apple wood...

I plan to glean some small pieces to use

to make a mild smoke for blue fish caught down at the inlet
as I did when other trees were cut down last year,

delicious!

Looking north to a barn situated

on MainRoad now a real estate office

...........

Three photos of the Wickham's Farm Stand

taken earlier

Closed for the Winter

From last Summer

A fine selection of honeys from hives in the apple, peach

and berry sections of the farm

One doesn't want to leave without at least

one bag of fresh warm donuts

cinnamon sugar donuts are my favorite with a cup of tea

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Jul 1, 2009

Catapano Dairy Farm

The Catapano's make the best goat cheese we've ever tasted and all our friends agree! Our favorite is the Honey Lavender Chevre, a subtly flavored cheese. A bit of this on fresh baked, crusty sour dough bread is heavenly. ( For your sour dough starter go to: Fermented Treasures)

Catapano Dairy's soft chevre, a soft cheese, has been awarded first place at the American Cheese Society's annual "Festival of Cheese" conference and competition held this year in Louisville, KY. The groups membership includes over 1,000 makers of farmstead, limited production and specialty cheese, marketers and academics, and is the largest advocacy and trade group of the US quality cheese industry. --- New York Times August 2005

Many other products are made from the goat's milk as well and can be seen and purchased at: www.catapanodairyfarm.com/

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Why the Chevre is Sweet and Has Such Character

They Love being Petted

The shop

Jun 27, 2009

Ripe wild Salmon Berry.

May 15, 2009

Some North Fork "Reds"

I was going through some older photos and I got the idea to do a little post with a red theme. I'm glad I have a better camera now. Those are some of my tomatoes from last year. Nine plants produced over 250 lbs.