Pipczynski Farm

06/18/2026

It's been awhile since we had a rainbow.

06/18/2026

We don't have strawberries but Lakeside does on River Drive in Hadley. We have the rhubarb for the strawberry and rhubarb pie.

06/15/2026

Aha! So the questions are answered! 👍
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Stop waiting for those first zucchini flowers to set fruit. Half of them never will — and that is normal.

A zucchini plant opens its male flowers first, often a week to ten days before the females appear. Early on the plant is all male blooms: pollen ready, nothing to pollinate. People panic, overwater, and overfeed a plant that is simply on schedule.

Tell them apart in a second. The female flower has a tiny zucchini already swelling at its base. The male is a plain stalk. Once both are open on the same morning, pollination happens — by bees, or by a quick swipe of a male bloom into a female.

If females open but the fruit yellows and rots at the tip, that is a pollination miss, not a disease. Hand-pollinate at 9am, before the blooms close for the day.

No fruit yet is not failure. It is the plant waiting for its other half.

06/14/2026

Good to have a helper.

06/12/2026

First day with summer squash.

06/12/2026

It's so dry and hot that we fill a container with marbles and water and the honey bees love it. Marbles so the bees can walk and not drown.

06/12/2026

We've marked down all of our vegetable starts, $2.00 each! Stop by today! 🍅🫑🥒

06/12/2026

Sweet corn with tassles. Usually about three weeks to pick.

05/29/2026

Thank you for the photo Tom Chicoine!