Happy Memorial Day! We are open officially for the season and it feels good to be back :) This year, as I started my seeds, I thought of our farm stand shoppers. I grew lots of pumpkin, green bean, sweet pea, cosmo and nasturtium starts for you!

The farm stand will be open M-W-F 8am-6pm from Memorial Day through to Halloween. I‘d LOVE to stay open through the beginning of December, but we’ll see if the farm agrees. We will also be open for some selected Saturdays over the summer, keep up to date with us on Instagram.

The roses are going crazy right now. Above is one of my favorites, the Bathsheba climbing rose by David Austen. It has almost no thorns, is fast growing and has nice long stems for cut flowers too. Best part? It smells like cantaloupe.

I finally have my dahlia rows moved to a more suitable place. Ive tried many different forms of staking. I met a 90 year old woman who told me to keep it simple and use a tomato cage reinforced with a bamboo stake on top of each tuber. If you are a dahlia enthusiast you are likely thinking that’s too many cages to buy.

You would be correct! We happened to have tons of tomato cages that were left here when we moved in. They had been piled behind our shed for several garden seasons. So I figured, why not try it? This is not a solution for large dahlia rows but for our small collection, seems like an interesting solution. We’ll see!

We have more eggs than you can imagine! This season we are offering dozen and 1/2 dozen cartons of eggs. Do you see the extra large copper eggs in this photo? It’s practically like eating two eggs at once they are so big - you can thank our Maren breeds for these giant, richly colored eggs.

I’m the most excited about our farm that Ive ever been. We have been re-doing our garden structure, amending soil properly, and started so many seeds this year. The hens are happy and so are we…bring on the growing season!