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The Times They Are A Changin’: The Freeze is Coming

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September represents a tipping point in the harvest for our farmer partners. As temperatures begin to dip at night, the season’s first freeze becomes imminent, and with it a wholesale shift in the harvest from the warm weather crops of summer to those that thrive in frosty nights and shorter days.

Fermenting Fever

With fall comes fermentation. While produce like tomatoes, peaches and peppers thrive in the warmth of summer, early fall brassicas – including cabbages and other leafy greens – are among those crops that thrive in the late fall. As the days grow short, cabbages sweeten up in the cold, crisp weather.

Life is Peachy

The highly anticipated pallets of peaches are rolling into the HQ! At MM Local, we wait to begin canning peaches until late summer. Our favorite varieties come in later in the season, hanging in trees for a few extra weeks for even richer flavor. The flood is commencing and ton upon ton of delicious Western Slope peaches are rolling…

What’s New in the World of MM Local: Tomatoes!

Friends, tomato harvest is upon us again! Here in Colorado, we have a small, precious window of time to harvest this ruby red treat. This produce is generally ready for picking around the end of July and extends through the first freeze of the year. The freeze historically hits in the third or fourth week of…