Waterberry Holiday Salad

This a wonderful salad for anytime, but the cranberries and toasted pecans make it a perfect salad to serve this time of year. It's quick and easy but impressive enough to serve at a dinner party. Our soft buttery lettuce is perfect in this salad but, if you're not lucky enough to live near our farm, you can use any Bib or mescaline salad mix.

Bib Salad with Cranberries, Toasted Pecans, and Gorgonzola Cheese

serves 4
1 head Waterberry lettuce, coarsely torn
1/3 cup pecans, toasted and chopped
3 ounces Gorgonzola cheese crumbled
1/3 cup (or as many as you like) dried cranberries
Mound lettuce onto 4 plates, top with pecans and Gorgonzola cheese. Drizzle with you favorite balsamic vinaigrette.
Enjoy!

Strawberries will be here soon

The berries are beginning to flower! We'll have our wonderful herbicide free berries very soon. We hope to have our first harvest in time for Christmas. Check back soon!

Give Waterberry Preserves this Christmas

Lots of preserving has been going on at Waterberry over the last few weeks. We've made all kinds of chutneys, relishes, jams, and preserves.

Pictured here left to right: Cranberry, Pear, and Lemon, Jam, Pear,Apricot,Pineapple, Preserves, and Waterberry Strawberry Preserves

We've had lots of people asking to buy the jams and preserves for Christmas gifts. All of our preserves, jams, chutneys etc., are in bottled in 8 ounce jars and cost $5.00. The strawberries, pears, and figs are all grown on our farm.

Here is a list of all our preserves:

Fig Chutney

Cranberry, Pear, and Lemon Jam

Cranberry Rum Relish

Pear, Pineapple, Apricot Preserves

Waterberry Strawberry Preserves

To order e-mail: waterberryhydrofarm@yahoo.com or call 334-886-2454

Look for Waterberry Lettuce at the Butcher's Block in Dothan

Look for Waterberry butterhead lettuce at the newly established Butcher's Block in Dothan. Located at 561 Westgate Parkway, the Butcher's Block specializes in high quality fresh cut meat, imported cheeses and fresh produce. The Butcher's Block shares our passion for providing our area with fresh, local, high quailty, herbicide and pesticide free, produce.
Drop in today and pick up a steak and a head of our fresh from the farm lettuce!

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!