Spring Is Here! We Are Opening!

4/10 - It's crunch time!  The market opens in 3 days!  We have been busy renovating the store, planting apple trees, dividing rhubarb, tilling asparagus rows, seeding; corn, spinach, lettuce, cauliflower, beet greens, and potting perennial, and annual flowers.  The crews are hard at work!  This year we added 750 new apple trees to the high density orchard that we started last year.  The varieties include Linda Mac, Honey Crisp, Macoun, and Granny Smith.  We also added Lavender and Stir Fry Basil to our herb collection.  Have to get back to work!  Hope to see you Saturday!

3/28 - You may have seen a video of us on our Facebook page, just a few weeks ago, clearing snow off one of our greenhouses.  Over the past few day days we have since removed all of the plastic covering the greenhouse and replaced it with new plastic.  Shortly we will prepare to fill this greenhouse with tomatoes.  In the mean time, here is a clip from our latest news letter!

Each year we keep track of all the produce as it comes in from the field. All the calculations are reported to the USDA. It's amazing to see the totals on paper.  In 2012 we picked: 799 lbs of asparagus 425 trays of peppers 9000 lbs of greenhouse tomatoes 16737 lbs of field tomatoes 1014 lbs of green beans 434 lbs of yellow beans 568 lbs of peas 4437 lbs of summer squash 331 bushels of winter squash 5200 bushels of apples 1719 bags of sweet corn 1000 boxes of peaches both yellow and white 5 tons of pumpkins

1/7/13 - The store is closed for the season and our work slows down for a couple weeks before we're back in the greenhouses.  The down time is used to recharge and prepare for the up coming season.  We are headed to Oregon for the North American Strawberry Growers bus tour and conference.  Following the conference we will join the North American Farmers Direct Marketing Association on a bus tour of the Pacific northwest.  We will travel from Portland to Seattle with other farmers we have met over the past several years at this same conference.  Can't wait!