Back left: green chile and cheddar. Back right: red chile and honey. Front and center: blue corn
Rocket Punch Farm will be closed next week. We’ve got a lot of work to do to wrap up the active growing season and transition into the sourdough bread baking season. We will reopen on Tuesday, November 1 with our pickles, dehydrated apples, purple sweet potatoes, fingerling potatoes, leafy greens, and herbs.
But what about the bread? Our online store will go live Friday, October 28 to accept pre-paid advance orders. We’re offering 6 flavors: Traditional, Beer & Barley, Green Chile and Cheese, Red Chile & Honey, Blue Corn, and German Christmas (a stollen-inspired loaf with dried fruit and dark chocolate). Pick-up for sourdough bread orders will be Tuesdays through Fridays, 4pm-6pm. Traditional sourdough is $12, all the other loaves with additional ingredients are $15. More details when our online store goes live.
Last call for garden beans, pattypan squash, lemon cucumbers, Persian cucumbers, and eggplant.
Tomatoes will continue for a few more weeks. We’ll be picking green tomatoes to ripen them indoors to extend their harvest.
Of course hardy greens like collards and sorrel don’t mind the cold weather. (We’ve also planted cold-hardy kale, mustard greens, spinach, beets, lettuces, and radicchio, but those aren’t ready to harvest yet…stay tuned.)
Our preserved foods include our pickles and dehydrated apples.
Other foods to come in the next few weeks include purple sweet potatoes for pies and holiday baking, fingerling potatoes, and sourdough bread. Again, stay tuned.
Our business hours are currently Tuesday-Friday, 9am-5pm. 14 Gonzales Rd, Belen. 505-302-5656. Please park in our driveway and ring our front doorbell for service.
We’re eating caldo verde for dinner tonight, a delicious soup of greens, potatoes, and beans and/or smoked pork, depending on your dietary preferences.
We still have tomatoes: red Roma-types, pink slicers, heirloom beefsteaks and cherry tomatoes.
We expect that cucurbit season is coming to an end with the cooler weather we’re seeing. Expect this week and next week to be the end of the availability of cantaloupes, pattypan squash, lemon cucumbers, and Persian cucumbers. We’ll still have bread and butter cucumber pickles for as long as supplies last.
We also have bean pickles in two flavors: garden beans with achari masala and also yardlong beans with dill and chile. And don’t forget our celtuce pickles, a delicious Asian vegetable that tastes great with stir-fries, rice, and noodle dishes.
Please call ahead if you are interested in our salad mix, as it takes a little preparation. We harvest young leaves from many greens and herbs that we grow and mix it all up together. Because there are some bold flavors in the mix, we recommend enjoying it with a more assertive viniagrette.
Of course you may enjoy leafy greens and herbs on their own: Swiss chard, sweet potato greens, sorrel, New Zealand spinach, Malabar spinach, parsley, sage, thyme, oregano, chives, lovage, salad burnet…
We’ve reorganized out store front and put the t-shirts and wooden kitchen goods back on display. And we’re hard at work on our online store to begin taking sourdough bread orders in November. Stay tuned.
Our business hours are Tuesday-Friday, 9am-5pm. 14 Gonzales Rd, Belen. 505-302-5657. Please park in our driveway and ring our front doorbell for service.
This week: dehydrated Granny Smith apples, locally grown. Apple chips are a tasty snack. We’re glad we could use our solar dehydrator last week…this week’s forecast is cloudy and rainy all week.
We have a good harvest of cantaloupes. This variety is special and they sell out quickly whenever we have them.
Tomatoes! We’re keeping our cherry tomatoes on sale, $1 off. We also have red Roma-type tomatoes, pink burger slicers, and heirloom tomatoes.
Lemon cucumbers, Persian cucumbers, and bread and butter pickles from Persian cucumbers.
We also have bean pickles in two flavors: garden beans with achari masala and also yardlong beans with dill and chile. We also have fresh beans.
Pattypan squash! We love them prepared as calabacitas, in soups and stews, and even sliced thinly to replace lasagna noodles.
Please call ahead if you are interested in our salad mix, as it takes a little preparation. We harvest young leaves from many greens and herbs that we grow and mix it all up together. Because there are some bold flavors in the mix, we recommend enjoying it with a more assertive viniagrette.
Of course you may enjoy leafy greens and herbs on their own: Swiss chard, sweet potato greens, sorrel, New Zealand spinach, Malabar spinach, parsley, sage, thyme, oregano, chives, lovage, salad burnet…
We’ve reorganized out store front and put the t-shirts and wooden kitchen goods back on display. And we’re hard at work on our online store to begin taking sourdough bread orders in a few more weeks. Stay tuned.
Our business hours are Tuesday-Friday, 9am-5pm. 14 Gonzales Rd, Belen. 505-302-5657. Please park in our driveway and ring our front doorbell for service.
This week, come by to see our solar dehydrator in action. We’re processing local Granny Smith apples into dried apple rings.
Our cherry tomatoes are still on sale, $4 (normally $5). We also have red Roma-type tomatoes and larger heirloom tomatoes. Our pink slicer tomatoes for burgers are currently not available.
In response to a customer request, we started making a salad mix of baby greens and herbs. Please call ahead (505-302-5657) if you’d like some salad mix so we can have it ready for you when you arrive.
Jamaica, aka edible hibiscus, is wonderful for agua frescas, jams, jellies, sauces, and even vegetarian tacos.
We have lemon cucumbers, Persian cucumbers, and bread and butter pickles made from Persian cucumbers.
What else can you do with pattypan squash? We used thin slices in place of noodles to make lasagna and it was outstanding.
We’ve got your greens: Swiss chard, sweet potato, sorrel, lamb’s quarters, New Zealand spinach, Malabar spinach…
We’ve also got great herbs: basil, parsley, sage, thyme, oregano, chives, and more.
Lots of masala bean pickles, chile dilly bean pickles, and celtuce pickles. Blackcurrant jam is low stock.
Tuesday-Friday, 9am-5pm. 14 Gonzales Rd, Belen. 505-302-5657. Please park in our driveway and ring the front doorbell for service.
A customer requested a salad mix. Though lettuce is not in season (we just started seeds for our greenhouse-grown winter crop yesterday), we’ve got plenty of greens that are great for fresh eating. This salad is composed of baby Swiss chard, New Zealand spinach, sorrel, lamb’s quarters, pea shoots, salad burnet, lovage, and basil.
Tuesday-Friday, 9am-5pm. Our farm is also our private residence and we invite you as our guest. Please park in our driveway (it’s the only parking we have) and ring the bell at our front door for service. We’re usually working out back or assisting other customers, so we’ll be right with you.
