Farm Update

We have been hoping for rain...Ok we're good now..really. We will not be open for produce tomorrow(Sat.) morning as it's now too wet to get anything out of the fields.  We will open Tuesday and Wednesday all day 10-6 for produce.  Self serve eggs and honey remain available always. Tuesday and Wednesday's bounty: Broccoli Cauliflower Green Peppers Turnips Swiss Chard Butternut Squash Radishes Mild Salad Mix Arugula Kale Spinach Chicken Eggs Honey

See you soon! Locally yours, Vicky and Steve

Farm Update

We will be open Saturday 9-noon only.  Eggs and honey anytime by the honor system.  If you can't make it Saturday simply give us a call to come and see us! We are disappointed to say that it looks like the 2013 corn season is over.  We were hoping for one more gasp of corn this weekend, but not gonna happen.  We do have good news though...our summer squash experiment is really working.  Thanks to the hot Autumn, our Zucchini plants are blooming and setting fruit.  Although I haven't seen any bees for a month, it doesn't look like my pollinating services will be needed this time.  (for you newcomers to the newsletter my pollinating services became world renown last spring) Did you ever think you could have fresh Zucchini in October!?  Did you ever really want fresh Zucchini in October!?  Well, we had extra seeds so we thought we would give it a try and it looks like it's going to work.  The cucumbers are coming much slower, but that may happen too!  Keep in mind that as the season comes to a close we will be open less and less, but you can always call us if you can't make it Saturday morning.  410-215-6776. We planted a type of radish that we have never tried before called "cherriette".  It seemed in the past few years that all the radishes we planted were so hot they would have you breathing fire after one bite.  The cherriettes are perfect spheres of ruby red glory and much milder than there predecessors.  I love them and show them off any chance I get.  Vicky thinks that growing radishes is a waste of time and space.  Of course, every time we sell a bunch of radishes I come strutting into the house, "Sold another bunch of the radishes.  Yup, selling like hotcakes!!" This Saturday morning's bounty: Butternut Squash Kale Mild Salad Mix (lettuces) Radishes Spinach Honey Chicken Eggs ArugulaTurnipsGreen Peppers edit

See you soon! Locally yours, Vicky and Steve

Fresh Chicken!

Our newest, freshest chicken is here. Whole and 8 piece cut up whole chickens. We'll have the chicken in the coolers Wednesday 10/2 through Friday 10/4 and then it will go into the freezer.  Our fresh chicken will be available each day tomorrow through Friday from 10-7! Vicky and Steve

No Corn This Weekend

There will be no corn this weekend!! We're sorry to say that the corn from the last corn patch of the year is not quite mature enough to be picked this weekend.  It should be fine for next weekend.  We will keep you posted

Farm Update

Now's the time to order corn for freezing or canning and any special chicken orders! Hi Everyone! We have two more weekends for corn.  If you have been thinking about putting some up, let us know today, for this weekend, or next week, for next weekend,  if you would like to order a few dozen.  The time has come to freeze or throw out the pot!  Also it looks like our next batch of fresh chicken will be in the cooler next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  If you would like to order anything different than our whole and whole cut up chicken, let us know now.  Remember, cut up chicken can be packaged any way you like and cut or deboned any way.  Of course a whole cut up chicken with boneless breast will cost more than a chicken with the bone in breast.  Call or email if you have any questions.  I will send out a quick email beginning of next week with definite days and times for the chicken. Thank you all for whatever you did to help bring on the beautiful rain we received last weekend.  It was perfect!  It helped a lot.  I must admit the couple of rain dance videos we received from some of our customers, though, I'm sure helpful, were quite frightening. This weekend's bounty: Sweet corn Kale Mild salad mix (lettuces) Beets Honey Chicken Eggs Arugula Butternut Squash Green Beans Basil Radishes We are attempting to find replacement hens for some of our older egg layers.  It seems next to impossible to find any that haven't had the tips of their beaks singed off.  Growers do that when they're day old chicks to avoid dangerous pecking when hens are grown in crowded conditions.  We certainly prefer a hen with a whole beak.  Vicky said she thought losing the end of the chicks beak is horrible and has to be painful.  I rebutted, "Have you ever heard of a bris!"

See you soon! Locally yours, Vicky and Steve

This Weekend

Open this weekend Saturday and Sunday 10-6 We're hoping for a significant rain this weekend. We really haven't received any rain since the first week in August.  Great if you're not a farmer, the pits if you are.  We find ourselves in that transition time between summer's bounty and the fall's offerings.  This week we were taking out the tomato plants, removing and moving some blueberry plants to combine all the healthier plants in one area, ripping out most of the grapes and tilling and planting our cover crop.  The cover crop, which is winter rye btw, helps with erosion during the fall and winter and when tilled back into the soil in the spring, adds organic matter.  It's so dry here, that while I was out tilling, I was recreating a scene from the great dust bowl from the thirties!  When I was finished I, of course, came traipsing into the house looking like a giant dirty dust bunny with half the field covering me.  Vicky really was very understanding about it.  I believe she yelled,"What are you doing?"  I replied,"Getting a drink, I'm parched!"  "There's seven hoses outside, get a drink out there," she ordered.  "Good grief you look like you were shot with a dust gun!  You might want to take the dust mask off your face too before you attempt a drink !" Cybil Preston stopped by this week with a new supply of her Cybee's raw honey, so the shelves have been re-stocked.  The sweet corn is still coming, but much of our fall veggies are struggling a bit.  A rain dance would be helpful, if you know one, or feel free to adlib one, the neighbors won't mind. This weekend's bounty: Corn Butternut Squash Radishes Honey Garlic New Arugula* (tender and a bit milder than the arugula from the older bed, which is still available if you really want a punch) Red Russian Kale* (small and tender) Chicken ( whole and cut up whole) Eggs Beets Red Potatoes Spinach* Green Beans (limited amount) *Keep in mind the greens are just maturing and will be quite limited this weekend edit

See you soon! Locally yours, Vicky and Steve

Your Farm Update

Hi Everyone, Well, we were gearing up for a wonderful shot of rain yesterday.  We were so hopeful we would get what our fall crops needed.  We heard thunder to the south.  We heard thunder to the west.  A customer had come from Towson and reported that it was pouring there.  We had a call from a friend in Bel Air that it was raining there.  A customer had been in Conowingo where there had been a deluge.  Our skies were darkening over the farm.  We felt a drop and then another and another and........that was pretty much it.  I believe I counted 35 total drops that plunked me on the head.  We couldn't believe it.  We basically got nothing.  It's been over a month now with no rain on the farm.  One customer tried to lighten the moment by saying,"Boy these late tomatoes sure taste sweeter.  I guess because of the lack of rain, huh?"  I asked him to leave the premises immediately. We have harvested our Butternut Squash and a Turban squash called Buttercup.  They both are quite tasty.  We should have corn through the end of the month.  Now this is Maple Border Farm's corn.  GMO free, but not grown organically.  Tomatoes are about done.  We should have a limited supply while they last.  This is the time of year that we are caught between the waning Summer crops and the still maturing Fall crops. NEW HOURS FOR FALL:  We will be open just Saturday and Sunday through the Fall 10-6 each day.  We will go back to the honor system for our eggs Monday through Friday.  Until the small egg cooler is repaired, the eggs will be in one of the coke coolers and the money box on our main table in the middle of the market. This weekend's bounty: Sweet Corn Tomatoes Red Potatoes Butternut Squash Garlic Buttercup Squash Chicken-Whole and Cut up Whole Eggs Beets Honey edit

Thank you so much for allowing us to be your farmer and all your support through the Summer! Locally yours, Vicky and Steve