Category Archives: Farm Update

It’s warming up out here. And it’s Mother’s Day week! We’re ready to celebrate. This week, we are making every effort we can at harvesting so many vegetables, and SO MANY FLOWERS to spread out into the world. With all this color blooming on the farm, I imagine you could see it from space. WeContinue reading “Everything, blooming!”

It’s May now! New this week, we’ve got the first of the butternut squash. It’s prolific this spring, and jumbo. This is a great end-of-the-season crop because it will last the whole summer on your counter if you’re not ready to cook it yet! Now, in our final month of the harvest season, we areContinue reading “It’s May now”

It’s another week at our farm in central Florida. Now, the number of harvests that remain can be counted on one hand. It’s hard to imagine how this season flew by so quickly. Truth be told – we’ve been busy. We are finished planting for the season – so our remaining work is laid outContinue reading “the month ahead”

New this week: Dried garlic is here! About 10 days ago we harvested all of the garlic from the field and laid it out in the greenhouse to cure for about a week. That process is complete now and the skins have dried down, protecting the garlic cloves inside. This garlic will store for many months. There’sContinue reading “Garlic is here 🧄”

Springtime is here, We’ve pulled out all the frost cloth and hoops from the field, having passed March 14th, our local frost-free date. All the oak trees have pushed out new green leaves, carolina wrens and chickadees are making nests on the farm and our front porch. The mornings are cool and the days areContinue reading “Fleeting Spring”

The season is beginning. Our first harvest is happening today and tomorrow for market THIS SATURDAY! We have been hard at work growing for you and we’re excited to see you and get started with the season! The beginning of the season brings an abundance of crops like kale, collards, lettuce, baby greens, scallions, babyContinue reading “Market season begins!”

We are hard at work planting and getting ready for the approaching season! This time of year, we are full of excitement in anticipation. As we sow the seeds for the season to come, we are full of hope of a delicious, plentiful harvest to share. We spend our days planting tiny plants into openContinue reading “Planting and getting ready”

Just a quick update. After a couple of months preparing for the season to come, it is time now that we begin sowing seeds and turning the earth to begin the process of planting for the season. At the beginning of summer, we received just enough rain to germinate our cover crops. Since then, theContinue reading “Turning earth”

That’s a wrap! Our long and beautiful Florida harvest season has come to a close. Vegetables were abundant, flowers were floriferous, recipes were shared, friendships were nurtured, machines were broken and fixed, there was hail, there was drought, magic was everywhere. Our amazing farm team at the last farmers market of the season: Orion, Leo,Continue reading “Magic was everywhere”

The final week of the harvest season are here. This Friday, we will be harvesting and gathering all the last fresh vegetables and flowers that the farm has to offer for the season! Then, we will turn it all under, and the harvest season will be finished. So let it be known: we would LOVEContinue reading “It’s the final week!”