Gaspar, our expert collards-harvester.
Moe’s Original BBQ, our favorite downtown Matthews lunch spot, is keeping us very busy right now, as we are delivering large quantities of greens three times each week.
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We still have an enormous variety of beautiful and delicious pie pumpkins, spaghetti squash, butternut squash, and other winter squashes at both Renfrow Hardware and our farm stand right now – perfect for decorating your home this fall and then cooking at Thanksgiving!
Chef Adam Reed of Sante Restaurant made this creation out of one of our large pumpkins at a friendly competition between other local chefs at an event this weekend, hosted by the Piedmont Culinary Guild. PCG is a community of chefs, farmers, local food artisans, and others involved in Charlotte’s local foods scene, which Renfrow Farms is currently in the process of joining!
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I planted a few hundred of these peculiar-looking ‘corms’ today, which are *hopefully* going to produce the most beautiful ranunculus blooms in the spring! It’s my first attempt at growing this flower, and I am extremely excited about this luscious early spring bloom!
Well that’s a big turnip….these Tokyo Cross turnips are so tender and good, even at this size! We usually sell them in the golfball-tennisball size range, not miniature bowling ball! But if you want any of these Japanese-type turnips, mega-size or smaller, we will have plenty! And the greens are really delicious too – here’s a recipefor one of the best ways I know to prepare them.
Have a great week, and we hope to see you at the farm stand, despite tomorrow’s icky weather forecast!
