Sometimes farming is filled with joy…and sometimes it brings disappointment. As stone fruit growers, there is often no greater pleasure than sharing, eating and enjoying a beautiful, ripe, stone fruit and knowing that we’ve grown it. Or doing in-store demos and talking to people whose kids love our fruit. It is truly amazing to create food.
Sometimes however, there is also disappointment. As anyone following this blog would have noted, we’ve been nurturing our brand new crop, borlotti beans, since October last year. The goal was to have our Edible Gems Freshly Shelled Borlottis in-store this week – 20th February. Unfortunately, the beans were ready a week ago, but the pack house wasn’t and much to our sadness, we’ve lost patch 2. It has produced beautiful dried beans that still taste amazing, but the moisture that makes a fresh bean plump and edible is gone. Zapped by the heat. So…we now wait for patch 3.
At the risk of jinxing ourselves, we are aiming for the first week of March. Patch 3 should be ready as should the packhouse and fingers crossed, we will be ready to roll.
For those of you who have made contact and have been waiting and supporting us so patiently, keep hanging in there. They will be worth waiting for.
Jina