At the Farm is located on Highway 5 in Carver County, Minnesota - 2.5 m. East of Waconia - 4.5 m. West of Victoria - 10 m. West of Chanhassen
Donna Frantz, Proprietor - 8880 East Highway 5, Waconia MN 55387 - imthefarmer@earthlink.net - 952-442-4816

At the Farm Newsletter

Sent July 23, 2008 Hello, MARK YOUR CALENDAR JULY 27! It's a Country Festival At The Farm! Stroll the gardens and enjoy the Wendenger Band from New Ulm MN. Its to Celebrate Minnesota's 150th Birthday. 12 noon to 4 pm. I'm picking green beans, yellow beans, peas, leaf lettuce, candy onions, red onions, scallions, chipollini onions, kohlrabi, beets, cucumbers, peppers, egg plant, zucchini and cabbage. YOUR WILLOW BASKET NEEDS TO BE BIGGER! I have locally home grown raspberries, TOMATOES, new red potatoes. Georgia sweet corn, South Carolina peaches, Indiana watermelon and muskmelon, California grapes, nectarines, plums and garlic from Gilroy California, the garlic capital of the world! I GROW ORGANIC! EAT FRESH! BUY LOCALl! Enjoy the Summer! Donna

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled . . . PICKLES! Its time to get out the jars and canners and think about canning pickles! Kosher salt Cider vinegar Hard water Pickling cucumbers Fresh dill heads Onions Garlic Slice blossom end (or both ends) off cucumbers. Place one head of dill on the bottom of each jar. Add cucumbers, dill, onion, and garlic. Cover with hot brine and seal. Have water boiling in the canner. DO NOT boil pickles in the canner. Put the canner on the floor in the garage, add jars. Wait until the next morning to take the jars out. I wait 2-3 weeks before eating. I will have pickling cucumbers soon! Mine are grown on meadow hay so they are clean and ORGANIC! Happy canning!