June has kicked into high gear, and around here that means pesto in the fridge, tacos on the grill, and tomato vines growing by the minute. Whether you’re hungry, planting, or both we’ve got you covered. Let’s start with the…
There’s something magical about this time of year on the farm. The air smells like freshly turned soil, the greenhouse is bursting with green plants, and the promise of tomatoes is finally taking shape in the field. After weeks of…
The past week at Quarter Acre Farm has been a great one full of tomato buzz (pun intended), surprise visitors, and some truly meaningful connections with our local community. Let’s dig into the details. Tomato Time Has Arrived 🍅 It’s…
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.…
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…
We love gourds, particularly large gourds. They are just so cool, they grow wild with tropical-like vines taking all season to grow mature fruit. We then harvest them before the frost and store them for about a year in our…
This will be our very last week offering seedlings for sale. So all of our seedlings are marked down to just $2 each, both in our online shop and at this Saturday’s Easton farmers’ market. Our current fall/ winter seedling…
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…
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…