After a hot summer, Jefferson County farmers are experiencing a plentiful fall harvest.
Last year, farmers harvested more modest yields due to a hot summer transitioning abruptly into a cold …
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Oliver Pallardy helps gather some of the pumpkins at Collinwood Farm. There is a bumper crop of pumpkins this year and they are available at the Saturday Port Townsend Farmers Market. Submitted photo
After a hot summer, Jefferson County farmers are experiencing a plentiful fall harvest.
Last year, farmers harvested more modest yields due to a hot summer transitioning abruptly into a cold autumn, said Jefferson County Farmers Market Director Amanda Milholland. This year, however, farmers are enjoying a harvest twice as bountiful as last year.
“We have so many pumpkins!” says Gina Pallardy of Colinwood Farm. “We donated hundreds of pumpkins, cucumbers and other produce to the food bank this season. When you plant the same amount as the year before but have twice as much produce it is hard to store it all.”
This fall our greens have been doing really well, said Karyn Williams of Red Dog Farm. “That’s what we usually lose first due to frost. We still have a lot of root vegetables in the ground. Everything that can do really well is doing so this fall.”
This coming Saturday market will be the last before Thanksgiving. Potatoes, carrots, beets, squash, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Jerusalem artichokes, kale, parsnips, turnips, onions, garlic, salad greens and more are to be on display.
The Saturday market is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. through Dec. 19.
