Hop Over to the Market This Easter Weekend
Spring is in full swing, but you wouldn’t know it from the cold and wind that greeted us at last week’s market. Still, we bundled up, fired up the grill, and had a great first day back at the Easton…
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You’ll Want to Be at the Easton Farmers’ Market Every Saturday
The wait is finally over, the Easton Farmers’ Market kicks off this Saturday, April 12th, and we’re coming in hot with seedlings, tacos, and a few tasty surprises. At Quarter Acre Farm, we’ve been hard at work planting, prepping, and…
We Got Peanuts!
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…
Prepping for Garlic Planting
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…
Hello November
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…
Nothing Spooky just Delicious
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…
The End is Near
The end is near for our tomato crop. We are not sure when but sometime soon the temperatures will dip down to 32 degrees killing our tomato plants. The forecast for this week shows some pretty low early morning temperatures…
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…
Garlic Sale
We are a little obsessed with heirloom garlic. The flavor is amazing, it just puts grocery store garlic to shame. Similarly to heirloom tomatoes there are hundreds of varieties out there, each has a slightly different flavor, with varying sizes…
Plant Your Fall Garden Now
The days are getting shorter. Right now, the sun is setting around 7:30pm, providing us with just under 13 hours of total daylight. By the end of September, the daylight will be less than 12 hours. On Halloween, the sun…