With farm stands in full swing stocked with plenty of delicious fruits and vegetables, North Fork Patch wants to know where you go for your local produce.
Dozens of farm stands filled with locally harvested produce have their doors open across the North Fork this time of year. North Fork Patch popped into a couple of Peconic farm stands to take a look at what's fresh and ready to go this week. Do you have a favorite farm stand you're always returning to for the fruits and veggies? If so, why do you go there? Or are you the type who likes to go farm standing hopping? Let us know in the comment boxes below.
Local peas, beets, onions and several different types of green lettuce are fresh and filling the shelves of farm stands across the North Fork.
Strawberry season might be just about over, but several other types of local crops are sprouting right on time and making their way to North Fork farm stands. Sugar snap peas are the current superstar crop and are looking good this year, according to Helen Krupski of Krupski's Farm Stand in Peconic — though she added that strawberries grown on her farm are still plentiful and fresh due to a late planting. Krupski's offers customers the option of picking their own peas or buying them off the shelves, which are also currently stocked with fresh items such as three different types of lettuce, baskets of strawberries and summer onions. "Today was the first day we had the onions on the shelf," Krupski said on Tuesday afternoon. Head just a …
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Krupski's Vegetable and Pumpkin Farm
38030 Route 25, Peconic, NY
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Sandy Martocchia
11:58 am on Friday, June 24, 2011
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