Sweets & Breakfast
New offers this week include sweet peppers and sweet potato greens. For us, harvest of both of these crops starts in late summer. As our field is dominated by tomatoes it is easy to forget we grow anything else. But…
Category Field Crops
Our Garlic is Ready
We harvested our garlic back in June but it had to dry and cure which took a few weeks. It is now ready and it is so delicious we can’t wait to share it with you. Right now we have…
Summer Time
We are feeling like we are in a summer daze, the dog days of summer are here with their heat and abundant harvests. We hope you survived the heat wave and are enjoying our recent cool down. Our tomato and…
Tomatoes of All Shapes & Sizes
We are now picking cherry and heirloom tomatoes almost everyday. Our tomatoes come in many colors, shapes, and sizes. We got something for everyone. We often get asked if the color of the tomato indicates anything about the flavor. Well,…
First Cherry Tomatoes
The first of the cherry tomatoes have arrived! This year we are growing 16 different varieties of cherry tomatoes and a few of the varieties started ripening in the last couple of days. So Sunday we went out to pick…
Sweet Potato Slips & Garlic Scape Pesto
Now is the time to plant sweet potato slips. We have a limited supply of slips for the delicious Covington variety available. This is a widely adapted traditional orange sweet potato variety. Copper and rose-colored skin with sweet, smooth, bright…
Time to Trellis Tomatoes
Even though recently our temperatures have been a little bit below normal and some nights have been particularly chilly, the field is growing and thriving. The tomatillo and tomato plants have grown a lot since we started transplanting them weeks…
Pawpaws and Garlic Scapes
At the farm this past week we transplanted pawpaw seedlings to establish our pawpaw patch. We started these tiny trees two years ago from seed. This year’s planting consisted of over 40 trees and we hope to expand the patch…
Perfect Weather for Planting
Sunny warm days make for perfect conditions to plant in the field and recently we have been lucky to have some perfect May days. Last week we transplanted our first planting of tomatillos and cherry tomatoes into the field. This…
Adding Summer to the Field
We hope everyone’s gardens have survived the heavy rains we recently had. From the two storms our farm received over 6 inches but thanks to our sandy soil everything has soaked in and there is hardly a puddle left. Before…