Our farm focuses on producing crops out of sync with everyone else. To help with that, we extend the season using unheated greenhouses; 7 of them at the last count. We use them to grow salad greens in the winter, hot season crops in the summer, and microgreens year round. Our chicken manure makes sure the soil is rich and alive and our rotation of crops helps reduce pests and disease.
Organic Heirloom Tomatoes
One of our specialities is delicious and huge heirloom tomatoes. John and the crew start them from seed in February, transplant them into unheated greenhouses in April, and we enjoy their sweetness from June to October. We grow varieties that we know do well in our system and have been breeding our own varieties for several years. Every year, John saves the seed from the best tomatoes on the strongest vines to use the next year. In this way, our tomatoes improve year after year in vigor and taste.
Organic Mixed Salad
We pride ourselves on producing the freshest, most varied salad around. In the winter, our salad has 8-10 various greens including mustards, kale, spinach, lettuce, chard, and sometimes arugula. In the summer, the mix changes to several varieties of lettuce, shiso, spreen, beet greens, chard, and various herbs. Both times of year we include edible flowers to delight all the senses.
Organic Peppers & Basil
We grow an abundance of different peppers that John is tremendously proud of. We have shishitos, jalapenos, Italian sweet roasting peppers, bell peppers, Cayennes, Bella Criolla, and Thai hot peppers. In the same greenhouse, we also grow lots and lots of delicious basil.
