Solar Powered Popsicles

Cheshire Garden is our small family farm nestled in the rolling hills of southwestern New Hampshire. We've been farming organically for more than 35 years, specializing in heirloom berries, fruits and herbs.

Since organic fruits require daily picking, we carefully freeze the daily harvest and make preserves in the winter - turning our perishable berries into something that can be enjoyed all year long.

The simmering fruit helps heat our house and photovoltaics (solar panels) help power the freezers.

About 4 years ago we tried something new - turning our fruits into Frosty Fruit Pops. (Ok, they look like popsicles, but are so much better!)

Simply pureeing or juicing the fruit and adding a bit of simple syrup captures the essence of fruit picked at its peak, bursting with fresh flavor notes.

I’ve been bringing these pops to farmers’ markets and festivals and basking in the enthusiastic response I get wherever we go.

And that’s where I’m looking for some help. We’d like to go to more festivals, especially where music is playing, people are dancing and kids are having fun. My portable freezer can run off the car battery or AC, but electricity isn’t always available and often needed to power the music.

This portable generator and solar panels to charge it will help me put more delicious, nutritious and healthy pops into more happy mouths.

Pops are a great way to enjoy favorite fruits - like raspberry, blackberry and strawberry - but also away to introduce folks to fruits they may be unfamiliar with like black currants, red currants and Damson plums - all antioxidant-rich powerhouses with a lot of layers of flavor.

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