Full double rainbow at our house Saturday : )

Zucchini: From left to right…

Raven is your typical zucchini, but darker skin, lots of antioxidants

Cocozelle is rich flavored Italian zucchini

Sebring just like a green zuc, but yellow

Costata Romanesca has a “distinctively sweet nutty flavor”

(they say I can win a blue ribbon for the biggest zuc with this one…maybe I will try.)

As you may know the biggest even in Maine happened this past weekend–Moxie Fest–and unfortunately, it was a wash out. I serve on the board for the county extension office–an extension of the university of Maine where folks, like you, can receive a myriad of services such as gardening expertise, 4-H clubs, energy questions answered, food preservation skills and much much more. I have used extension over the years to answer many of my pest control and disease questions and I find them to be a great community asset, building roots in both agriculture and healthy eating/lifestyles.

My point…we tried to sell ice cream at the Moxie Fest to raise money for the extension office and well since most people were running for their cars in the deluge, we didn’t sell much ice cream. Sooooo I am going to sell cones at pick up this week!!! (okay so it’s not really “healthy” eating, but the ice cream was hand made locally).

This is a good segway into the “Ice Cream Theory” book you may see sitting on the table in the barn. An award winning book written by one of our shareholders!