Our September BBQ goes whole hog…literally!

Verrill Farm Chef Kevin Carey is spit roasting a whole pig for this year’s Verrill Farm BBQ, which will include pulled pork, ribs, sides and more.

This year’s BBQ will be held on Sunday, September 13, from noon to 4:00 p.m.

The post Labor Day event is a popular, fifteen year tradition which includes the barbecue, music by Spirit Fiddle and Hay and Pony Rides.

The menu, served a la carte, includes:

•  Traditional BBQ including pulled pork, ribs & chicken
•  Cole slaw, beans, corn bread, & fresh from the field corn on the cob
•  Other choices include hot dogs and mac ‘n’ cheese
•  Apple Crisp, Pecan Pie and beverages also available
•  All food served to eat at Verrill Farm or packed for take out to enjoy at home later.

• Music by Spirit Fiddle  www.spiritfiddle.com.

• Activities include hay rides and  Giddy Up Pony rides

Delicious! New entree

Sun-dried tomato & marscapone raviolis, with corn and leek cream sauce

Rodrigo has been working this morning on preparing a new entree for our case, and it’ll be out and ready for purchase by 11 a.m.

You’ve got to try our Sun-dried tomato & marscapone ravioli, with a corn and leek cream sauce, topped with pan-seared scallops.

Get it all for $7.50.

Saturday’s fresh fish

Today’s fresh fish, which is available in our deli case, includes:

• Baked bluefish with fennel mustard
• Grilled herbed swordfish with our own tomato balsamic salad
• Baked salmon with scallops and pesto
• Asian teriyaki salmon
• Grilled salmon with tomato and corn salsa

Hot BBQ to go today

Stop by our farm stand today for a mouth-watering Verrill Farm Pulled Pork Sandwich with baked beans and cole slaw.

Available every Thursday, from 4 to 6 p.m., our pulled pork dinners are sure to satisfy every BBQ lover – and they are packed hot and ready to take home and enjoy…or you can sit outside under our tent, and enjoy the scenery.

Each delicious meal consists of a Verrill Farm pulled pork sandwich, served with baked beans and cole slaw – all for $8.50.

Oodles of heirlooms

At last count, we had more than 35 varieties of our heirloom tomatoes for sale in front of our stand.

Our heirloom tomatos can be found in a wide variety of colors, shapes, flavors and sizes.

Choose from:

• Black Prince – These deep garnet round, tomatoes are full of juice and incredibly rich fruity flavors.  The fruits contain deep rich colors on the inside. Perfect for eating fresh, and in cooking in tomato sauce or other culinary wonders.
• Carbon – A beautiful purple-brown tomato. This heirloom is among the darkest of the black tomatoes with delicious, rich, complex flavors.
• Green Pineapple – Heirloom originating from Ohio with green flatened-round, beefsteak  fruits. Excellent tropical fruit flavors with hints of pineapple.
• Garden Peach – Small delicate and meaty fruit. Really does have a peach color outside. Hint of red inside. Very mild-sweet taste. Light fuzz on fruit. A very pretty novelty tomato.
• Moskovich – A deep red,  smooth, round and slightly flattened fruit with a luscious, rich taste.
• Yellow Brandywine -The Yellow Brandywine has become an American favorite heirloom tomato. A yellow-orange (gold), round, flattened, slightly ribbed shouldered beefsteak tomato with delicious, intense sweet flavors balanced with a slight tartness.

Others include:

• Brandywine, Big Rainbow, Jet Star, BHN 589, Ultrasonic, San Marzano Redorta, Mr. Stripy, Estiva, Jaune Flaumme, Green Zebra, Red Zebra, Mountain Fresh Plus, Health Kick, Big Beef, Mortgage Lifter, Dorothy’s Green, San Marzano, White Queen, Delicious, Persimmon, Dafel, Ultra Sweet, Arkansas Traveler, Amana Orange, Bella Rose, Paul Robeson, and Aunt Ginny’s Purple.

We also have several varieties of cherry tomatoes to choose from.

Take home a blueberry tart

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s a Verrill Farm mini-blueberry tart worth?

$3.95 takes one home!

Weekend breakfast sandwiches

Stop down to our farm stand on Saturday and Sunday to enjoy a delicious Verrill Farm Breakfast Sandwich. We’ll be preparing our sandwiches out in front of our farm stand.

Cooked to order, our Breakfast Sandwiches are made with an egg, bacon, and American cheese, served on an English muffin and served hot and ready to go.

Available every weekend from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. for $2.95/each, our breakfast sandwiches are sure to satisfy.

Pulled pork Thursday, Chili on Friday

Don’t forget to head on down to our farm stand today for a mouth-watering Verrill Farm Pulled Pork Sandwich.

Available every Thursday, from 4 to 6 p.m., our pulled pork dinners are sure to satisfy every BBQ lover – and they are packed hot and ready to take home and enjoy…or you can sit outside under our tent, and enjoy the scenery.

Each delicious meal consists of a Verrill Farm pulled pork sandwich, served with baked beans and cole slaw – all for $8.50.

Also, we’ve got a choice of our own Beef or Vegetarian Chili served hot and ready to go every Friday, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Follow Verrill Farm on Twitter

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@verrillfarm will keep you up to date on what we’re doing.

You’ve got to see it to believe it

While ringing a cash register outside at our Corn and Tomato Festival on Saturday, I saw what appeared to be a table being carried down Wheeler Road. I could only see the top of the table from over the parked cars.

Much to my surprise, it wasn’t a table at all. It was a hat, and it was attached to the head of one of our farmers, who was helping with traffic.

Jimmy designed an ingenious (and beautiful) large brimmed hat, made out of cardboard. It sure seemed to keep the sun from his face.

Gucci has nothing on you, Jimmy!