Friday, March 18, 2011

From The President's Desk

Come on and join us down on the farm for a while! 

Thanks in advance for your interest and input as we share our farming experiences with you. Down here on the farm we are always working to produce more -  on the same amount of land - with more efficient techniques and new technology. Every day is an experiment on how we can improve in each and every area of crop production, harvesting, packing and shipping, maintaining quality and customer service. We must do this while continuing to be good stewards of our greatest resources, our land and our water.

As we proceed with our winter harvest of cabbage coming up to St. Patrick's day, we are enjoying a good market and excellent quality. We are very blessed to have a quality cabbage crop in a year of unusual cold weather, and the driest winter in 80 years. The cabbage harvest will continue through March and into April, due to the slow growth caused by the cold weather. Cabbage, although not a very 'sexy' crop, it is a great winter crop that can handle frost and freezes, but it is also very strategic for our crop rotation. In addition to helping us keep our fields healthy, most folks don’t know that cabbage is richer in vitamin C than citrus, and has many other health benefits.
    
We are also in the process of planting our spring crop of pickles and, of course, the world famous Scott’s Zellwood Gourmet Sweet Corn. Weather permitting, we will be on schedule to start harvest of pickles April 15th, and corn harvest the last week of April. We will have corn just in time for the opening of Scott’s Country Market the 29th of April. In addition to our sweet corn, we will have many other locally grown fresh fruits and veggies available at our market. 

We'd love to hear from you and welcome your comments and suggestions.  We look forward to a great spring season and hope to see you all at Scott's Country Market!

Hank Scott
President


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