Varieties grown: Blacktail Mountain, Divergent, Sugar Baby, Hannah’s Choice

We grow a wide variety of melons, in an attempt to make sure we get a crop. Central Vermont is a decidedly difficult place to grow good melons, a plant that loves heat and a long growing season. We grow cantaloupes as well as watermelons. These are nothing like your supermarket melons—they’re bursting with flavor and juiciness!

How to use them:

• In fruit salad

• Sliced and eaten as a snack

• Balled, then wrapped with prosciutto for a traditional appetizer

• With yogurt as a breakfast, snack, or dessert

How to store them: Because we pick your melons ripe and ready, they should be kept in the refrigerator until ready for use, like cucumbers. Cantaloupe should be consumed within a couple of days of receiving, while watermelon stores longer (a couple of weeks).