Changing of Seasons
With the arrival of fall our seedling season is almost over, there are just 2 weeks left of us selling seedlings for this year. We always end the seedling season with a 50% off sale, which will happen at the…
Category Seedlings
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…
Celebrate Mom with Tacos & Seedlings
We have been busy in the greenhouse potting up seedlings and seeding more seeds. We will continue to have seedlings available until Labor Day with new varieties and crops changing from week to week. In addition to greenhouse work we…
Get Ready for July 4th
It is hard to believe that this weekend it will be July! Many folks will be having a long weekend in celebration of the 4th of July. In between going to parties, parades, and fireworks spend some time in your…
Mid-June at the Farm
We hope everyone stayed safe during the smoky days we had on the Eastern Shore last week. For us it brought back memories of living and farming in California during wildfire season. Since we have had some experience with these…
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…
Heading Back to the Market
Spring has surely sprung on the Eastern Shore, today it is 82 degrees fahrenheit and sunny. We have a few new things at the farm this spring. A new greenhouse which we were able to build with the support from…
Greenhouse Upgrade
Last year towards the end of the seedling season, a tropical storm blew through Tilghman ripping the plastic off of half of the greenhouse. So my lil’ greenhouse needed all new plastic across the top and on the ends. There…
Seeds and Spreadsheets
For the last month I have been busy doing some of the unseen work of farming … computer stuff. The mundane tasks that any small business owner need to do like updating the website, making sure the sign up forms…