Autumn Harvest

Autumn at Brae Farm is one of our favourite times of the year. The garden shifts almost daily with vegetable beds changing colour, new crops coming in and others finishing up.

Right now harvest baskets are full with zucchini, eggplants, Mal’s beans, French shallots, red Tropea and purplette onions, garlic and deep red Detroit beetroot. We’re also picking the last of the spring onions, African marigold flowers, golden beetroot and agretti as they come to the end of their run.

 The Angelino plum tree is heavy with fruit and ready to pick this week, the final plums of the season.

 Tomatoes and cucumbers are building in volume as the days remain warm, and over the coming weeks we’ll reach the peak of harvest for them, along with honey, piel de sapo and Ha’ogen melons. It’s a moment in the year when the farm feels especially generous.

 As autumn progresses, we’ll begin to see daikon, tomatillos, cape gooseberries, Espelette peppers, red kuri pumpkins, snow apples, beurre bosc pears and pistachios arrive in the kitchen.

This constant rhythm, of produce coming into season while others fade away, quietly shapes the menu each day.

Join us soon, wander the farm at its peak, and make the most of autumn as it unfolds.