Farm Life Vegetables and Berries

Symphony

The Squash Symphony continues. This week (too late, some of you may say, given that Thanksgiving has already come and gone), we offer you pumpkins. Small, pie-perfect pumpkins, that fit nicely in a basket without overwhelming it. So don’t wait for Halloween to put them to good use, they’re not the jack o’lantern type. As squash often come in two’s, we’ll pair your pumpkin with an acorn or a delicata squash to make the count. This week, too, we delved deep into the earth to check on our Jerusalem artichokes, ripening quietly underground. The tests were conclusive, the ‘chokes are ready. We’re big fans, although we understand that Europeans often look down on this North American root vegetable. A visitor to the farm this weekend, a gentleman from Belgium, explained that during World War II, the German troops would requisition farmers’ potato crops, leaving the lowly rutabagas and topinambours for the locals. It seems both vegetables have had a hard time making it onto the root vegetable glamour list ever since. Our mission is to right a wrong and restore their pedigree…