Capper's Farmer

Summer's TASTY FLAVORS

SUMMERTIME is a season that’s welcome around the farm. Summer, in many ways, gives us permission to be as busy or as lazy as we’d like. We can fill our days with harvesting vegetables, weeding, cleaning, and preserving, but the days can also be just as easily filled with picnics, playtime, lounging by the pond, taking long drives, or swimming in the river. It’s the time when we get to celebrate what the land is offering up, because our hard

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