Spring Plant Sale and Farm Tour Saturday, April 28th, 3-7 pm The farm will be open for plant sales and tours from 3:00 until 7:00. Free, guided farm tour at 4:00 describing our (Certified Naturally Grown-pending!) farming practices, including permanent raised beds on contour, cover crops, farm-scale composting, bio-intensive planting, mulch for weed-suppression, pest management, and… Continue reading Spring Plant Sale and Farm Tour
We have been getting emails everyday asking about what we are growing and harvesting right now, and how people can buy our food. We are so glad more and more people are seeking out locally grown, organic produce! This post gives a general picture of the farm’s harvest and market stand, as they appear here… Continue reading Currently Harvesting…
This was the least wintery winter we can remember, but it is still a noticeable difference to feel spring really arriving. Today was balmy and comfortable, transplanting in sandals. Peeper frogs are going to town with their songs. The kids have already forgotten what shoes and socks are. We’ll have to remind them when market… Continue reading Coming Soon to a Salad Bowl Near You
Our lovely friend Fiona recently flew in from Massachusetts to practice her fruit tree pruning skills on our little orchard. We have 30 trees of a wide variety of fruits: from apples and pears to jujube and paw paw. Some peach. Some cherry. Etc. Here’s Fiona: Here’s Fiona after a few days with us: She… Continue reading Fruit Tree Pruning
Tomorrow, Saturday March 3rd, is our first scheduled market day of the season! (South of the James market, in the parking lot of the Patrick Henry School, right beside Forest Hill Park. 10 am – Noon.) And the forecast for tomorrow is for wicked thunderstorms through noon time. Therefore, you might need to be enticed… Continue reading First Market Day, 2012
Broadfork Farm 