Sorrento Village Farmers Market

HighCroft Farm has a new part time job for Sorrento based aspiring new farmers.

PUMPKIN STEW! Mrs. Crain scooped the guts out of a pumpkin and used it to bake a stew. When it was ready to serve, the outer skin was pulled away in order to add some pumpkin to each bowl. What an incredible taste of Fall at the Crainstead!

Owl made of Pumpkins Wow

My favorites are McIntosh, Honeycrisp, and Ambrosia. Granny Smith for baking.

Who knew that tomatoes were so beautifully diverse?

Kale, collards, and arugula are some examples of the various kinds of dark-green leafy vegetables. Dark green leafy vegetables are packed with lutein, which is ...a brain antioxidant. Lutein is a major carotenoid concentrated in the brain and also the eyes. The retina, the back of our eyeball, is actually an extension of our central nervous systeman outpouching of the brain during development, and right in the middle there’s a spot. This is what the doctor sees when they look into your eye with that bright light. That spot, called the macula, is our HD camera, where you get the highest resolution vision, and it’s packed with lutein. And indeed, levels or lutein in the retina correspond to levels in the rest of your brain, so your eyes can be a window into your brain. Significant correlations exist between the amount of macular pigmentthese plant pigments like lutein in your eyeand cognitive test scores. Increasing greens, such as kale, in our diet can be a beneficial way to improve (and maintain) the health of our brain and eyes. The egg industry likes to boast about how much lutein eggs have; however, 1 hardboiled egg has only 0.2 mg. The real superstars are greens! A cup of cooked kale has 10.3 mg of lutein, cup of cooked spinach has 6.7 mg, and cup of cooked broccoli has 1.7 mg. Learn more here: "Brain-Healthy Foods to Fight Aging" https://bit.ly/3hzQkZQ and "Do Lutein Supplements Help with Brain Function?" http://bit.ly/2SzBGWj *Note: for people taking warfarin (AKA Coumadin), talk with your physician before increasing greens in your diet so that the dosing of the drug can be adjusted to your regular intake of greens. Greens are a great source of Vitamin K and this can interfere with the how warfarin works in the body.