All things Fall

Fall has arrived! Here at the farm we have all the signs cool crisp mornings, squirrels busily gathering nuts, leaves beginning to fall, and we are planting our Spring strawberries 6000 to be exact! More about the strawberries later right now let's talk fall.

Nothing will put in the Fall mood faster than these Pumpkin Spice Pancakes with Apple Butter. Whip up a batch, grab a cup of coffee and meet us on the porch for a Fabulously Fall Breakfast
Pumpkin Spice Pancakes

Ingredients:

2C all purpose flour

2Tbs brown sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground ginger

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 tsp salt

1 1/2 C milk

1/2 C pumpkin puree

2 eggs

2 Tbs butter, melted

In a large mixing bowl combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder and spices. In another bowl combine milk, eggs, pumpkin, butter and vanilla. Stir combined wet ingredients into dry ingredients until moistened. Scoop batter by 1/4 cup fulls onto prepared hot griddle sprayed with cooking spray. When bubbles begin to form, flip the pancake over. Cook until golden. Serve with a drizzle of pure maple syrup a dollop of apple butter and walnuts or pecans.

So delicious! Sit back relax and take in the sights, scents and falvors of Fall!

Farmer's Table

So everyone has been asking "When is the next farm dinner?" and I am pleased to let you know that it will be October 11.
We have been enjoying cooler days with much less humidity and we hope by then we will have cool fall evenings.
This will be our Fall Harvest Dinner spotlighting all our favorite fall foods and flavors.

Social Hour

Artisan Cheese and Bread

Chutney

Dinner

Sweet Potato Ravioli with Local Greens and Applewood Smoked Bacon

Harvest Beet Salad with Pears and Spiced Pecans

Glazed Autumn Vegetables

Brussel sprouts, turnips, carrots and parsnips

Pork on Pork

Pork shoulder and belly(bacon cut) simmered in a rich Bourbon Sauce with Creamy Grits

Harvest Pie Table

back by popular demand

Selection of our favorite pies for Fall

$65 per person

As always seats are limited so reserve yours early, no reservations will be held without payment. Call Waterberry Farm @ 334-886-2454 or e-mail waterberryhydrofarm@yahoo.com

This will probably be the last week we have figs. sigh. Oh well there's plenty going on at Waterberry right now. The Kieffer pears are just beginning. Kieffer pears are old pear variety that grows everywhere here in the Southeastern U.S. It's a very hard pear that is best picked green and allowed to ripen after picked. Although these pears aren't good to just eat, they are great canned. Because they are a hard pear they make wonderful preserves and pies. This week, for market, we used our pears to make Pear, Pineapple,and Apricot preserves. Stop by our booth at the 84 west Farmers Market to pick up a jar. Get there early and you just might get one of the last pints of our figs! We'll also have pesto and sun-dried tomatoes. Of course we'll have plenty of our hydroponically grown butterhead lettuce. See you at the market!

Farmers Market

This past week at the Farmers Market we featured fresh figs and our homemade fig chutney. They were a real hit. We sold all we had in about an hour and a half!
We are at the 84 West Farmers Market on Thursday's from 3-6pm (many times we sell out by 5pm) Get there early to get the best selection! Check back later for a list of what we'll be selling this Thursday.

Summer perfection

So I can see that great minds think alike, with summer in full swing and tomatoes at their peak I can't think of a better lunch than a tomato sandwich. Although I do like the classic tomato and mayo my all time favorite has an Italian twist.
Start with a nice hunk of sourdough, next add some fresh pesto, then fresh mozzarella, top with garden fresh tomatoes some fresh ground black pepper and sea salt finish with a drizzle of balsamic. Enjoy all the summer flavors at their best.

Figs ripe for the picking

You say tomato, I say... summer!

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime... Warning: A really good ripe tomato may make you want to break out into song. What could be more summery and delicious than a red ripe juicy tomato? This year, dad planted a heirloom variety of tomatoes in the hydroponic system. Wow, the taste is amazing. They taste and smell like, well, a tomato! The heirloom varieties are not high bred to produce a uniform size and shape. So they often look less than perfect than grocery store tomatoes but taste so much better. The variety, combined with the fact that the tomato is allowed to ripen on the vine, is what we think make our tomatoes so tasty! (And of course, no herbicides or pesticides were used on these babies.)

They taste so good, in fact, that I prefer to just slice them, and put them on bread with some mayo and maybe just a sprinkle of sea salt. Nothing fancy but one of the best things you'll ever eat! You can taste the hot summer sun in every juicy delicious bite!