Cherry Tomatoes and Saturdays at the Market

Right now we are living in the cherry tomato rows harvesting pint after pint and tying up the plants weekly until they reach the top of our stakes. Most of our first planting has reached the top of the stakes…

 Harvesting, Planting, and Eating

Our cherry tomato harvest is in full effect. It is the time of year where we harvest all the plants and then two days later it looks like they have never been harvested as they are just full of ripe…

Cherry Tomatoes Have Arrived!

It is finally tomato time! Our first planting of cherry tomatoes are ripening and we have started to get a steady, but small harvest off of them. So we recommend that you pre-order your pint of cherry tomatoes or make…

Hot Days Call for a Bit of Spice

It is hot out there and the forecast is calling for the heat to continue. We are doing our best to stay cool by just working outside in the early morning and the evening. Retreating to the farm office during…

Welcoming July

It is hard to believe that it is just the first week of July as our June weather was so hot, humid, and lacking in the rainfall department that this past month felt like peak summer instead of just the…

Harvesting Garlic and Staying Cool

It is hot out there but work continues on the farm … with plenty of water and breaks in the shade. The dry weather this past week made for good conditions to harvest garlic in. So we have pulled the…

Last Call for Tomato Seedlings

This Saturday will be your last chance to get tomato seedlings. So we are having a little sale, all tomatoes seedlings are half off making them just $2 each. We still have 10 different cherry varieties and 12 different heirloom…

Planting Peanuts

We have been having some beautiful summer weather here on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and with that comes questions on when our tomato harvest will begin. Well, it is hard to know exactly when, as plants have a mind…

Pesto and Plants

Garlic scape season is still going strong. Last week we harvested from about 4 of our garlic varieties. There will be other varieties ready this week but like we always say garlic scape season is short. As each variety puts…

Scape Season

It is garlic scape season! We along with many of our customers can’t wait each year for this short but flavorful season. Garlic scapes are the flower buds of the hardneck garlic plant and are only available in the late…

Planting and Partying

It is hard to believe that Memorial Day weekend is upon us. How is it already the end of May?!?! Time on the farm always seems to go fast in the spring, one minute it is too cold to plant…

Planting Tomatoes with a Side of Guac

Last week we got the first of our cherry tomatoes transplanted into the field. To prepare our field we use our Grillo walking tractor to rototill the soil and incorporate all the remaining dried plant material that remains from having…