Types of Eggplants
Here at the farm we are growing all kinds of different eggplants, some long and thin, some fat and round, all delicious. Here is a quick look at some of the various types of eggplants you can see in your shares.
– Machiaw
Long purple Japanese – Chinese hybrid eggplant
– Galine
Classic glossy black appearance
– Imolese Bianca
Ivory white eggplant, be careful of the sharp spine!
– Rosa Bianca
Pink and round with mild flesh
– Barbarella
Dark purple and round
– Shikou
Long dark asian eggplant
+++ Alex
This post is by Alex MacLellan who is in his first year as one of the Farm Apprentices at Moose Hill. Alex has some of the highest energy we have seen out in the fields. He has begun to share pictures of the varieties of crops that we have and some of the fun things our farm apprentices and farm hands find in the fields.