The first week of fall is here, but summer isn’t done just yet. At Quarter Acre Farm, our tables are still overflowing with ripe heirloom and cherry tomatoes. They are sweet, juicy, and taste like sunshine. These late-September harvests don’t…
September on the Eastern Shore is a season of overlap. The mornings call for a sweatshirt, the afternoons remind you that summer hasn’t let go, and the skies fill with the sound of migrating geese. It’s that sweet spot of…
The time has come for our last farmers’ market of the year. This Saturday, December 14th will be your last chance to get produce, prepared food, or our cool farm merch from our booth at the Easton farmers’ market. After…
To help out with your holiday shopping this week, all our merch is 25% off. We have two styles of t-shirts, french terry crew neck sweatshirts, a stylish grey Adidas hat, and our colorful canvas market tote bag showing our…
We took advantage of the lovely Sunday weather and started to plant our heirloom garlic. We got four 100 foot beds planted and we plan to get more in the ground in a few weeks. By spacing out the planting…
We grew peanuts for the first time this year. This was a bit of an experiment for us but we had a bountiful harvest a couple of weeks ago and have been letting them dry. Well, now they are ready…
We finally got some rain Sunday night. Which for us is about the first time it has rained on the farm in two months. The droughty weather has not affected us very much because as we slide into shorter fall…
It is hard to believe that it is November but I feel like I say that every fall particularly once the time change happens. Things are slowing down at the farm, now that we have had a hard freeze killing…
It may be warm and sunny right now but we got a killing frost Monday morning taking out all our tomato, pepper, and tomatillo plants. But don’t worry we did a big harvest the day before. So we will have…
Last week the temperatures were chilly on the farm. We had several mornings of a light frost blanketing the field. But most of our crops survived. Our cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, tomatillos, and peppers have lived to see another day.…