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We are doing it again! Our Pre-Order Plant Sale is now live on our website and runs through March 21. Reserve your plants and make sure you aren’t disappointed!
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Pre-order is available only for our tried and true summer seedling starts. This includes tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, summer squash, basil, culinary herbs, and flowers.
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Pick up days are Saturday, April 29th and Wednesday, May 3th. These dates are just little before our last frost date, but I know we are all anxious to get our gardens going. Just be prepared to cover your plant babies if a frost is in the forecast.
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Pick locations are, on Saturday, the North Asheville Tailgate Market, 8am until 12 and at the farm, 9am until dusk. On Wednesday, pick locations are the River Arts District Farmers Market 3-6pm and at the farm from 9am until dusk. You can choose your pick up location when you check out.
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| Our regular selection of spring plant starts (kales, lettuces etc) will be available for sale on our website once the tailgate markets open for the season, April 1st, and aren’t available for pre-order at this time. Like last year, we'll be offering the full range of our seedlings on our online store and bringing only a limited selection for in person shopping at the tailgate markets. |
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What's happening on the farm right now?
Lots of cleaning up, organizing, going through junk piles and moving things to new homes.
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After four years, we finally found the right day to set fire to our enormous burn pile. It is a collection of old wood, pallets, boxes, tomatoes vines and onion skins that we don't want in the compost pile. It burned high and hot for around 4 hours and then smoldered for another day or two.
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We've made several trips to the metal recyclers in Biltmore Village. It was very exciting when the claw came down and lifted away the old bush hog and drop setter. So far we've earned $350!
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The hazelnuts are blooming. I think I post the same pictures every year but every year I am amazed again at how small the little female flowers are. It seems so unlikely that a cluster of hazelnuts will grown from that tiny little red bloom.The second photo below are the male hazelnut flowers. They are blooming too, releasing their pollen to fertilize the flowers but they are not on the same trees! You have to have two or more varieties to get hazelnuts. It seems like so much is left to chance and yet it's a pollination system that has developed over millennia and obviously works.
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Male catkins on the hazelnuts
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Your farmers, Vanessa and Alex
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Love the flowers. Honor the vegetables. Let the weeds go!
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- Cheri Huber and Ashwini Narayanan
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