Date: July 2nd 2010

The corn crop will be gone in the first half hour. Watermelons, with and without seeds will last a bit longer as we have a bin we picked today. We have enough muskmelons for all morning, so please grab about 3-5 varieties of muskmelons, and make a melon salad ahead of whatever big event you are having this weekend. Just be sure to keep it chilled, refridge, or on ice... Buy enough to take you through to next Saturday as well, as this goes for most of our fruits, veggies, and herbs. Muskmelons this weekend are dominant to "Atlantis" our eastern slightly elongated, super juice cantaloupe type melon which is so popular in every other eastern state sold at roadside stands. Also please consider our mini-loupes / charentais melons, the mini cantaloupe melon with super intense flavor, cousin to tuscan melons. We have more ananas as well, white to light salmon and juicy aromatic flesh, a real treat. We have very few galia with green flesh, and Korean melons too.

Don't forget stonefruits, with dapple types becoming our dominant pluot selection, with dapple supreme, and dapple fire. Our peaches and nectarines are awesome, all colors. It's July!

Summer squashes and cucumbers plentiful as in past weeks, but fewer cucumbers (and squashes) will be available going forward, as our first planting is beginning to decline without the use of pesticides to fight our pests which are increasing in population. (Many are asking if I am "organic", and while my body is full of carbon molecules, neither it or any of my farming operations are certified organic. I have been led to believe that the word "organic" was given a commercialized agricultural meaning by Robert Rodale back about 1946 to represent wholesome, sustainable, pesticide residue free, and environmentally friendly practices with which to produce food crops, something like that anyway. It has currently become a law / book of regulations, which is currently being promoted successfully in the fresh produce industry as a means of attempting to increase profit margins by those willing to produce under "organic certification." To keep it simplified, we produce wholesome,
flavorful, great value in our fresh produce, and utilize practices friendly to all of you, and ourselves, and those helping us produce our crops, and if you want something else, just have a look around, as we know that California agriculture is highly regulated enough, and I am grateful I have the freedom to still be able to produce for you through the sweat and risk of my labor and investment. We hope these produce items we seed / graft / plant, care for, and harvest, are some of the best you will ever eat, as you are willing.

Vine ripened tomatoes, of the roma / saladette, and round / beefsteak type are ripening increasingly rapidly, giving us good selection to sort out for you. While home garden varieties including most "heirlooms" tend to break down in a couple days and lose flavor when they go over the hill, shopping for the week with us will get you good consistent flavor and texture all week long, at room temperature. We hope that nobody beats us on tomatoes, except those strait from grandma's plants which are picked and eaten directly from hand immediately. We are highly focused on getting the right nutrition to our tomato plants so that you and your tastebuds wil benefitl!

Thank you for your friendship and business,

Greg Tesch
www.teschfarms.com