Our 2013 Season

Hi Everyone,

Just a hello and it sure feels good that spring is beginning to spring out at us!  We wanted to let you know what we would be offering this year at the farm.  The first delicious item that will be showing up soon is our asparagus.  Usually around the beginning of April into May we will be harvesting asparagus daily.  It will be available here at the farm.  Then we can expect strawberries in May and June.  The window isn't very large for these, so don't miss them.  There aren't many places you can find organically grown strawberries and they are on the dirty dozen list of fruits and veggies that hold onto the sprays they receive.  Around mid to late June our "Music" garlic as well as our "German Red" garlic will be ready.  The blueberries should be in June through August.  We are planting a lot of produce for ourselves this year and probably will have extra goodies through the year.  Tomatoes, green beans, squash etc.  Check here for produce updates.

The blueberries and strawberries will primarily be pick your own.  Depending on how busy we are, there may be times when we already have some picked.  Feel free to call us for that information.  410-215-6776.

Of course eggs are available most of the time.

Thanks and we look forward to seeing you this year!

Vicky and Steve

Egg Prices

We will be increasing our egg prices to $4 per dozen beginning 12/1/12.  We have been at $3.50 for a number of years with the feed price going up steadily throughout that time.  So, at this point it's either raise the price a bit or stop doing it.  Our new batch of laying chickens we bought last summer are finally beginning to lay much better.  As a result of that we have lifted the maximum 2 dozen purchase.

We hope your Thanksgiving holiday is the best!

Vicky and Steve

It's a wrap

We have pretty much wrapped up the year on the farm. All the fields have been tilled and our cover crop, winter rye, has been planted. Winter rye will germinate down to 34 degrees, will help with soil erosion and is nice organic matter to be tilled back into the soil next spring. We have taken out our strawberry patch and planted 500 new strawberry plants in a new location. they will be ready for picking next spring. We have replaced 40 blueberry plants, built and planted another large asparagus bed and cut back the current asparagus plants to get ready for winter.

We are down to two beehives and have prepped them for winter. The chicken is all sold out and we don't have the indoor facilities to grow any more during the cold weather. The egg layers are doing a bit better. Our egg supply has been holding pretty steady and eggs are available here everyday. We still are doing a two dozen maximum.

Vicky and I want to thank all of you for supporting us this season. It was a difficult year for us both as I toughed it out on the farm while she was immersed in the accelerated nursing program at Harford. The good news is she is now a Registered Nurse, the bad news is I don't ever want to see the farm again! Just kidding..about the farm part.

We're not sure what next year will bring for the farm, but you guys will be the first to know.

Have a wonderful holiday season and keep buying local!

Thanks again,

Vicky and Steve

This Weekend

Things are winding down on the farm, but we do have a few organically grown veggies available this weekend and of course our eggs. We're set up for self serve Saturday and Sunday 9a-6p for the veggies and eggs. The eggs are available all week,as well, on a self serve basis. This weekend we have:

Cabbage

Cauliflower

Turnips

Green Beans

Have a nice weekend,

Vicky and Steve

This Weekend

This weekend we will be open with self serve items as we work to get our strawberries and garlic in for next year. Available Saturday and Sunday 9a-dark:

Green cabbage, many of the heads weigh nearly 5 pounds $3 per head

Spinach, $3 per bag

Turnips, $2 per pint

Eggs $3.50 per dozen

Green Beans $3.50 per quart, the fall beans are beautiful!!
Romaine Lettuce $3 per bag
Sweet peppers $2 per quart

Have a great weekend!

GO ORIOLES!!!

Vicky and Steve

This week

We will be totally closed to customers this week and will reopen Saturday and Sunday 9am until dark both days with eggs, green cabbage, Chinese cabbage, salad mix, spinach, peppers and chicken legs at $2.25 per pound.

Have a nice week.

Vicky and Steve

Farm Update

 The new Asparagus bed

 These are the Asparagus Crowns, basically asparagus roots that you plant (weird looking)

One of the new laying chickens seemed to like one of the peach trees!

We will be closed, with the exception of self serve eggs, until more of the Fall crops come in. Feel free to call ahead to see if eggs are available 410-215-6776. Remember there is a limit of two dozen per customer.

Vicky and Steve