Category Archives: Farm Update

After the models shifted overnight and the projected path of tropical storm winds inched closer to the farm, we spent our day preparing for the oncoming tropical storm Eta. Wednesday is usually a planting day, spent filling new rows with thousands of new baby plants. With the upcoming rain and wind, it didn’t make sense for usContinue reading “Weathering the storm”

Time has flown by since we were able to write an update. We both love to write to you and strive to get the story of the farm out into the world. A lot has transpired since the spring. Here is a brief update from where we left off last… The end of last season andContinue reading “Finally…LPF news!”

**This post is from 2020 and contains COVID-19 veggie distribution details that are no longer applicable.** Hello Friends and Family of Little Pond!!! Hello from springtime at the farm, hello from our tents to your cars, hello from the fields to those of you working the essential jobs in post offices, in custodial roles, in hospitals.Continue reading “COVID-19 update”

In just five weeks from now, we will be harvesting and loading our truck full of the first delicious and nutritious vegetables and vibrant flowers, and heading down to St. Pete with the first abundant haul of the season! Planting is well underway, and the plants look healthy and strong. We are expecting minimal impactContinue reading “Here we go!”

The weather has been cool, with light rains – perfect transplanting weather. Last week we began getting the first crops into the ground. The vegetable fields are waking up and coming back to life! In less than seven weeks from now, we’ll be harvesting the first vegetables and flowers of the season. Time flies!! We’ve gotContinue reading “Memberships Available”

Summer is so quiet here. Everywhere else summer seems loud, crowded and sticky. But not here. The mornings are cool, calm and almost too beautiful. They seem otherworldly. Just the chorus of a few crickets and a pink glowing sky. Below are entire fields of sunn hemp cover crop, sitting fully saturated and supple from soakingContinue reading “Dustin’ off the John Deere, building greenhouses, building soil.”

Just a quick note to say hope to see you all tomorrow (Saturday May 25, 2019) at our last market of the season! We will be at the Saturday Morning Market from 9am – 2pm and then we’ll be headed back home till October to quickly preserve some last minute goodies for our freezer andContinue reading “Final market for the 2018-2019 season!”

Yet another season begins to fade into summer as we approach the end of our sixth year cultivating the earth at Little Pond Farm. I had to jot down on a piece of paper which crew was with us for all those years (that’s how we distinguish the seasons) to even believe it myself. In aContinue reading “Farming in Florida”

Harvest season begins — opening day of Saturday Morning Market is TOMORROW, October 6th! We return to the Saturday Morning Market tomorrow morning, October 6th, from 9:00am – 2:00pm in the Al Lang Stadium parking lot in downtown St. Pete. Come join in the celebration with us, your farmers. The first of the fall abundance is here! SeeContinue reading “2018 Harvest begins!”

We have been sowing and planting like crazy! The fields are beginning to fill up with baby plants and emerging seeds, and in just SIX SHORT WEEKS we will return to the farmers market for the season! (had to check the calendar twice, and yes… it’s true) We thank you for your support of our work! It isContinue reading “Planting”