We will have a small selection of beautiful eggplant this year.
We start our eggplant from seed in organic soil and grow it in our organic greenhouse.
The plants will be available in a 4 inch biodegradable Fertil pot for $3.50 each
Plants are growing in organic soil and raised from seed in our organic greenhouse.
We will be selling them in 4 inch biodegradable Fertil pots for $3.50 each
Cyril’s Choice – An early dwarf tomato that is also very productive for such small vines. Plants produce several flushes of dark red fruit, yielding later into the season than other determinate types. Fruit are little 2-3 oz saladettes with good sweet flavor. At 2′ tall they are good for container gardening
Amber 1-3 oz, yellow-gold globes are plentiful and early, yielding for quite a while despite being determinate.
Gundula – Dwarf bushes produce medium-sized, 2-3 oz meaty fruit prolifically and early. Very good for container gardening, as plants only reach 12-20” tall at maturity.
Uralskiy Ranniy – super early dwarf plants are very well-suited for container culture. Red, 2-4 oz, mini-beefsteak shaped fruit are juicy with good flavor.
Root Pouch Planting Bag
Root Pouch planting bags are perfect for container tomatoes. The 7 gallon size will fit a tomato plant in the center and you can plant some early seeds like lettuce around the edge. $6.00 each for the 7 gal. We also have some 15 gal bags for $10.00
Some of what we will be growing this year – Snapdragons, China Asters, Lavender, Stock, Red Amaranth, Persian Cress & Cosmos
We really prefer to provide the jar, so are looking for pint size or quart size canning jars. Jars smaller than pint size are not usable for our cut flowers. There are a few things that come in similar size jars (spaghetti sauce, pickles, sauerkraut) and we can use them.
“Mason jar” bouquets from 2020 in pint size canning jars
If you have jars that you would like to drop off, you can leave them in our Farmstand.
Thank you in advance for helping us to continue keeping our flowers happy on their way to making people happy!
Pam, Bill and the Creekside Flower Girls
Cherry tomato varieties that we will have available this year
We have lots of soap in various stages of curing. I made my last Spring batch on Saturday so it will have 6 weeks of curing time before our first Creekside Market Day of 2021 – May 1st!
Lots of favorites and a few new scents
Our basic recipe contains local goat milk, Olive oil, coconut oil, tallow, shea butter, castor oil & our own honey. We use natural clays & pigments for color and essential oils & phthalate free fragrance oils for scent.
Happy 1st day of Spring!
We have lots of life in the greenhouse!
The baby pepper & eggplant plants are ready for larger containers and the tomatoes are starting to come up.
The cool season plants (broccoli, cabbage, collards, kale, swiss chard & lettuce) will soon be moving to their transition spot in the coldframe and will be available as transplants for your garden.
We will also be selling herbs, potato sets, strawberry plants. Plus- we have lots of succulents & more flowers this year.
Greenhouse plants
Baby sweet peppers & eggplant
Yesterday was a very busy tomato seed starting day – 915 seeds!
Most of these seed trays came with the baby plants we purchased (flowers, succulents & some of our herbs). We wash & disinfect them so that we can use them over and over. When we run out of them, we switch to biodegradable pots or make soil blocks. They still have to sit on a plastic tray, but it really reduces our use of plastic!
Our most beautiful seed packages (and most of our tomatoes) come from Bakers Creek Heirloom Seeds
Some of my favorites – Big Rainbow, Mortgage Lifter, Blue Beauty & Piglet Willy
A couple of new varieties – Golden of Siberia & Jasper
Plus several determinate dwarf varieties for container growing
In the next few weeks, we will add a complete list of varieties with information on how you can reserve your plants.
All of our plants are growing in Organic soil in our Organic greenhouse. We use biodegradable containers as much as possible for the plants we sell.
The succulents, a couple of new varieties of million bells and the sweet peppers are all enjoying the sunny greenhouse this morning!
Even though it’s really late winter – it feels like spring (sometimes summer) in the greenhouse. The baby plants are starting to grow – the hot peppers have been moved from their plug size trays into a larger tray (1 more move up before they’re ready) – the cool season veggies are coming along – And, the succulents arrived yesterday!
More sunny days and lots more greenhouse work in the forecast
“Potting up” peppers
1 Pound Jar $13.00
Raw honey Comb $20.00
We have raw honey that is produced on our organic farm.
While we can’t control where the bees from our hives choose to forage –
we do provide them with plenty of great options!
Our Farm yard is filled with organic vegetables, flowers, flowering trees & flowering cover crops. We also have 20 acres of pollinator habitat, 8 acres of Monarch butterfly habitat and the remainder of our fields are planted in grass and alfalfa. The alfalfa gets a lovely purple flower that the bees love.
Honey is available for pick-up by appointment
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We had another busy day of picking and the farmstand is Full again!
Eggs, poblano peppers, dried, butterfly pea flowers (for tea), fresh cut herbs and beautiful bouquets.
You can pick up a kit or 2 from our Farmstand cooler for $6.00
So, I made a batch using the ingredients from 1 kit. It took me 15 minutes from washing to finished and made 3 cups of finished salsa.
I remove the seeds and membranes from the jalapeno peppers to decrease the heat. I also try not to touch the insides of the peppers and immediately wash my hands.
If you have been waiting for the big heirloom tomatoes, they are ready and in the farmstand.
Big Rainbow, Black Brandywine, Blue Beauty, Barnes Mountain Yellow, Lee’s Golden, Tappys Heritage are all ready!
We also have plenty of heirloom salad and cherry tomatoes.
Mix and match to fill a pint for 3.00
Our Self Service Farmstand is fully stocked this morning.
Tomatoes, summer squash, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, sweet peppers, jalapeno peppers, beans, beets, broccoli, garlic, potatoes, sweet basil plants, flower bouquets, dried blue butterfly peas, eggs and a few bags of sweet corn.
We have been extremely busy! Come out early for the best selection.
Busy picking day today!
We have Green beans and Dragon Tongue beans
Slicing, salad, roma and cherry tomatoes
Potatoes
garlic, summer squash, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, beets, okra, Genovese basil plants,
Fresh flower bouquets
and eggs.
All ready in our Self Service Farmstand!
We had a busy picking and packaging morning!
Broccoli, Dragon Tongue beans, summer squash (zucchini, lemon and patty pan), eggplant, bell peppers, beets, okra, cucumbers, garlic, plus tomatoes (cherry, roma and slicers) and a few bags of sweet corn.
And 3 bouquet choices:
Mixed flowers are $8., sunflowers and zinnia bouquets are $5.
We have fresh beets in the Farmstand cooler this morning
$4 per bunch
Also – cherry & roma tomatoes, summer squash, cucumbers, garlic and eggs
Calico corn
Organic seed
Never sprayed
Non GMO
Picked this morning
Half dozen bags are in the cooler for $3.00 per bag
We will pick in the morning and put what we have available in the Farmstand cooler.
Will not be picking later in the day so – when that days corn is gone – it’s gone.
We will have a very limited amount for sale.
Mix & Match – $3.00 per pint
Large are $1.00 each
small/medium are 2 in a bag for $1.00
mini pickle cucumbers are 1 pound in a bag for $1.00
Also in the cooler:
Flower bouquets – $8.00, Zinnia bouquets – $5.00,
Beets – $4.00 per bunch
Summer squash (zucchini, patty pan and lemon), broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant – $2.00 per bag
Dragon Tongue beans – $3.00 per bag
Hard neck garlic – $2 large or $3 jumbo
Genovese basil plants – $3.00
Eggs – $5.00
Our honey comes from hives on our farm. The hives are located between our organic gardens and our field where we have 30 acres of pollinator & monarch habitat as well as 35 acres of hay. So, while we can’t tell our bees where to fly – they really would have no reason to leave our farm! It is raw (not pasteurized) .
We do not keep honey stocked in our Farmstand. You can pick it up there by contacting us ahead of coming out.
$13.00 for a 1 pound jar
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We have finished digging all of our garlic and have it curing in the barn.
It takes a couple of weeks to cure but can also be used in it’s “green” condition.
Curing brings a more mellow flavor and dries the wrapper. It also brings out the beautiful color of the the pink & purple wrappers. Cured garlic can be stores for months in the correct conditions. You can braid it and hang it in your kitchen (lots of videos on line) – just snip off a bulb as you need it. It’s possible to braid some of the softer stemmed hard neck varieties while they are still green, but easier with the soft neck varieties.
We will be selling the green garlic this week and we start with the hard neck varieties.
Large bulbs are $2.00 each
Jumbo bulbs are $3.00 each
We will have our Music variety of garlic separated for those who want this variety.
They will be priced at $3.00 each.
Music garlic is a “Garlic Lovers” garlic! This garlic variety is prized for it’s mild flavor and ease of peeling. Its flavor is well developed without any bitterness, and it does not disappear when cooked. Just one clove can add so much flavor to any recipe, so it is time-saving! This variety keeps well until April or May when stored properly. Most bulbs average 4-5 cloves.
All cut fresh this morning and waiting in the cooler to brighten someone’s day or dinner!
We also have eggs, kale, Swill chard, kohlrabi and broccoli.
Kale – picked washed, spun and bagged this morning. $3.00 per bag
We also have eggs in the farmstand cooler.
We have fresh cut Lemon Balm in the farmstand cooler. $3.00
Lemon Balm strengthens your body’s defense mechanisms, making you more resilient to colds and the flu.
It is also known to dramatically reduce inflammation, protecting you against disease, and chronic illness.
Other super properties of this amazing natural ingredient include:
The easiest way to use it is to make a tea with the fresh leaves. I strip the leaves from the stems and tear the leaves into small pieces. Add the torn leaves to a container of water and put the container in the refrigerator overnight. To speed the process, put the leaves in a small pan and pour boiling water over the leaves. Allow to steep for about 30 minutes. Strain the leaves and dilute with cd water to desired strength.
This is delicious on salads, especially fish or chicken salads. You can also marinate chicken or fish in this mixture before cooking.
The hot weather is perfect for eating a cold salad but not for growing the lettuce. So, we picked, double washed and bagged all of our lettuce. It’s waiting in the Farmstand cooler for you to take it home!
$3.00 per bag (about a half pound)
We also have plenty of eggs. Egg salad?
We have a new egg size this week. The hens have stopped laying small eggs for our 18 pk med/small mix. So, we now have a 12 pack of medium eggs for $4.00. We are packaging them in the clear cartons with a price sticker on the carton. They are also on a separate shelf from our regular eggs.
We still have our regular “nest run” mix. They are packaged in either cardboard or foam cartons and are $5.00 per dz.
Our hens have free access to a large pasture area filled with grass, clover and a little alfalfa. While they’re outside enjoying their pasture, they’re also absorbing Vitamin D. Eggs from truly pastured hens are higher in vitamin D and lower in cholesterol because of the green vegetation they eat. In addition to what they find to eat in the pasture, we provide certified organic chicken feed, wheat and oats that we raised here on our farm, and whatever vegetable scraps we produce.
Eggs are in the cooler in our self-service Farmstand. There is not always someone available to provide change so please plan to have the correct amount of cash.
Peoney bouquets
Cut to order
We can only cut them in the morning so will need your order the prior day or before 8 am on the day you would like to pick up.
It is a very short season. We will have them this weekend until sold out.
9.00 per jar
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Your kit will include the lettuce seed of your choice from the 2 pictured below ( enough seed for 4 plantings)
1 – 10 inch planter bowl
certified organic potting soil.
Contact us ahead with your lettuce seed choice and the time and day you want to pick it up. We will have it ready for you in our self service Farmstand
$8.00 for the complete kit
Fill your container with soil
Sprinkle your seed
Lightly cover with soil
Lightly press the soil for good seed/soil contact
Water
Place your container in a spot where it will receive about half day of sun (morning is better than afternoon) and where you won’t forget to water it. If bunnies are a problem, place it on a table or somewhere out of their reach.
Water when the top of the soil is dry or any time until the lettuce is growing and established. Continue to water whenever the soil is dry on top or the lettuce starts to wilt. That could be daily in the heat of summer. Moving your container to shade will help with that.
When your lettuce is tall enough to harvest, use scissors or a serrated knife to cut about half inch above the roots. More lettuce will grow from the plant. Depending on the conditions (heat), you can usually get 3 cuttings from 1 planting.
When the last cutting is finished, pull the plants out – shake off as much soil as possible. You can add the finished plants to your compost. Now you can plant another batch of lettuce!
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