Balmy, springtime weather is here. The warmth of spring brings new crops like cucumbers, squash, basil, and sunflowers. Plus, an abundance of everything else. Following the spring equinox, all of the crops we’ve been growing all winter grow faster and faster and yield a plentiful harvest. Right now we are harvesting lots of: peppers, tomatoes,Continue reading “What’s abundant this spring”
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CSA Week – What is CSA?
This week (week of February 20th) is National CSA Week – a week where CSA farms across the country have agreed to promote the values of CSA. But first – what is CSA? CSA is Community Supported Agriculture. Our farm utilizes this approach. Allow us to explain: CSA is a model where a farm acceptsContinue reading “CSA Week – What is CSA?”
False Spring
It’s here… false spring. It happens every year at some point in February. It always warms up a bit between each winter cold front in Florida, but after the turn of the new year, there is something different. You can see it. You can feel it. With the lengthening days, the sun glows for a bit longerContinue reading “False Spring”
The sweetest carrots of the year
We made it through another cold spell this past weekend with temps dipping into the upper 20’s again. This comes just three weeks after the deep freezes we experienced over Christmas weekend ( read about that here if you missed it ). We’re happy to report again this time that the crops made it through the weatherContinue reading “The sweetest carrots of the year”
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Private Facebook Group – Little Pond Veggie Success!
Are you a member of our private Facebook Group for newsletter subscribers? If not, we encourage you to check it out. We have almost 500 group members sharing their veggie successes. Once you are accepted into the group, try out the “search” feature. Here are some examples of the posts you can find in theContinue reading “Private Facebook Group – Little Pond Veggie Success!”
Veggie Storage Guide
Keep your veggies fresh longer with our Little Pond Farm Veggie Storage Guide. This is a one page printable guide that you can keep on your refrigerator as a reference. It will outline proper storage techniques for each of the vegetables we grow. With this resource, we hope to help you get the most lifeContinue reading “Veggie Storage Guide”
4-week Simple Recipe Series
We’re dropping a new resource to start off 2023: a four-week Simple Recipe Series. For four weeks, we will send you one recipe per week (sent on Thursday, ahead of the weekend). The recipes we will be sharing are for meals we have prepared in our own kitchen with our veggies for years. We come backContinue reading “4-week Simple Recipe Series”
All the veggies we grow (work in progress)
This page is a work in progress. We’re working on uploading our library of veggie images and descriptions.
On the other side of the cold
We hope this message finds you well following the holiday weekend. This morning, we are on the other side of the cold. We made it through four nights of freezing temperatures on the farm, with two of those nights being deep freezes with temps in the mid-twenties. We worked all of last week getting theContinue reading “On the other side of the cold”