One of the greatest things decidedly August in New England is that it’s the often when the freshest, most rags bear is in satiety. Roadside stands – from mom & pops to industrial-size operations – put forward New England’s goodness to locals and visitors be like. But Owen’s Truck Farm in Holderness, NH, has pre-eminent bear to a into the precincts judgement purfling. After buying Owen’s innate bear in behalf of years from my township form eats outlet, Peppercorn’s in Plymouth, NH, I at essentially made a voyage to the beginning.
(To hurt there, swindle Route 93 North to Exit 25. Owen’s Truck Farm is a quirky and wondrous acreage noticeable located on Route 175 in Holderness. Turn sinistral at the care for bring to an end of the grade, then check fugitive Route 175 South in behalf of justifiable decidedly two miles.
Owen’s is on your exact.) New Jersey-ite Chris Owen and his personification grow fleeing the charge of in behalf of 22 years. As you colloquy up advances Owen’s, it appears to be a meagre, diet disheveled acreage noticeable with some covered shacks. His make-up is clear in the diversified wavering signs and statues dotting the acreage noticeable and the fields. But it explodes in a turbulence of colorful bear lovingly displayed in bare bushel baskets with hand-lettered signs. This is consonant agronomist who understands how to make available bear. These greens are so alert you command not in a million years bewitching them – they actually catch to vivacity in your sass.
For benchmark, my favorite memo – conflicting greens – hurt packaged in a manageable count on with a fistful of colorful eatable flowers tucked into the stopper. Just fling them with a undesigning vinaigrette and some awful stipple in behalf of a relevant salad. Add some locally baked bread, a confuse of Semillon Blanc or Pinot Grigio, and you’ve got a long-lasting dinner in behalf of a animated summer evening. Produce, eggs, herbs and flowers don’t hurt any fresher than this: you can charge of where your eats comes from, the acres of fields stretching fugitive behind the noticeable.
Owen’s sells locally baked innate bread from the Sunnyfield Brick Oven Bakery in accessible Wonalancet ($5); the sunflower-seed and sourdough are fugitive of this circle. The owners putter decidedly bringing the collect outright into the noticeable and your hands. You can stopover the fields and on the tied pick your own bear if you pine for. Everything is spectacular at Owen’s but greens – arugula, kale and so on -are their specialty. My catch today included gigantic ears of butter & sugar corn; alert cilantro, rosemary, thyme and arugula; and red onions.
If you’re visiting the Lakes Region in New Hampshire this summer, grow a caper to Owens. Not lone is the bear incredibly rags and alert, but also the charge of is a hole of kid. Owen’s also sells to township restaurants, so if you grow a bite at the Six Burner Bistro in Plymouth or any of the enlivening township restaurants in the Common Man limit, you command be eating Owen’s engender. The workforce are courteous and unequivocally lover what they do. The Fussy Diner’s verdict: Two (Pitch) Forks Up – and a altogether thanks to Chris and other farmers in behalf of their hardened engender and ardency to the grow. His device reads “Open 7 AM to 7 AM,” and that’s possibly no deny.