Alfred Reed Bishop and Doris William Butler

The picture above is the very tap root of Bishop's Homegrown/Face Of The Earth Seed. My grandparents shortly after moving to Pekin Indiana from Greensburg KY in 1947 where they purchased the farm that is now Bishop's Homegrown. This picture was taken in Pekin in front of the old co-op next to the old railroad depot, neither of which exist today.

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

List of Available Produce and Products (expected) for 2010 (this isn't the whole thing, just from the top of my head)!

Produce:
Tomatoes:
Rutgeurs
Mortgage Lifter
Absinthe Green when ripe
OSU Blue (new line from Oregon State, purple coloration, high anthocyanin)
Jack White (white tomato)
Centiflor Cherry tomatoes (yellow, orange, red)
Saladette Mix (red, black, yellow, orange, striped)
Black Krim
Golden Jubilee
Cherokee Purple
Paste Tomato Mix (multiple colors)
Heart Tomato Mix (multiple colors and sizes)

Peppers:
Bell Pepper Mix (20 kinds, all colors)
Sweet Frying peppers (these are the long Marconi type peppers which are popular in Italian food roughly 10-15 varieties)
Hot pepper mix (about 20 kinds)

Eggplants (a mix of 20 types)


Watermelons:
Yellow fleshed (3 varieties)
Red Fleshed (3 varieties)
Orange Fleshed (2 varieties)
White Fleshed (five varieties)

Melons:
Green Fleshed Muskmelon mix


Sweet Corn:
Astronomy Domine (multi colored Sweet Corn, purple, blue, yellow, orange, red, white, striped)
Bodacious

Flour/Parch corn (great for grits, polenta, meal, and flour)
Painted Mountain (multi-colored flour)
Amanda Palmer (multi-colored dent)

Cucumbers:
Pickling types
Long slicers
White cucumbers

Beans:
Roma
Blue Lake
Purple podded

Summer squash:
zucchini mix (round and long, multiple colors)
Yellow Crookneck
Yellow, White, Green Scalops

Winter Squash:
Long Island Cheese
Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue Hubbards
Kabocha
Acorn and Mini Pumpkin mixes in all colors

Spinach
Mustard
Romaine, Cos, Butterhead, and Leaf lettuces, multiple colors
Swiss Chard
Beets
Raddish Mix
Turnip Mix

Sunflowers
Zinnias
Wildflowers
Colored (green and brown) cotton

Red Norland Potatoes
Yukon Gold Potatoes

White and Red fruited Alpine Strawberries
Gooseberries

Nursery Stock:

Rare, one off, grafted apple trees, stuff you will not find elsewhere.
Kazakistan Apple and Pear Seedlings
Cider Apple Seedlings
Persimmon Seedlings
Cherry Seedlings
English Walnut, Heartnut, American Chineese and hybrid Chestnuts
Shellbark Hickory Seedlings, Paw Paw Seedlings
Bartlet Pear and Wild Pear Seedlings
Alpine Strawberry Plants


Poultry:
Heritage turkeys: Blue Slate, Black Spanish, Bourban Red, Naragansette, White Midget, Royal Palm and various crosses
Guineas (royal purple, Pied, Pearl, crosses)

Rabbits.

Composting/Fishing Worms.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Holy Guacamole! how much land do you have?