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Here’s the list of what’s available for pick up on the farm as of Thursday, May 5, 2011. French Breakfast Radishes – $1.50 per bunch Hakuri Salad Turnips – $1.50 per bunch Green Onions – $1.50 per bunch Green Butterhead Lettuce – $2.50 each Snow Peas – $3.00 per pint (limited availability) Possibly Spinach $3.00 per bag (1/2 pound) Our address is 213 Kiser Dairy Road, Dallas, NC 28034.  If you need directions, go here to look at our address on Google maps. Here’s a couple of pictures of the farm.Read More →

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CSA Starts soon but………. Later than expected!! Our first CSA pick up date has been pushed back one more week to May 9, 2009. This past week has been crazy on the farm.  We finally received the break we needed to get things planted.  It has been very hard this year to follow my planting schedule due to the wet weather.  I missed many of my planting dates.  Now that the weather has stabilized a bit, I have been able to finally get things back on schedule as much as possible.  I do still worry that because of the wet early spring and not beingRead More →

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I’ve learned many things in my first year of farming for a living.  However I feel the most important has been to not trust store bought soil tests.  In fact because I did trust a store bought soil test nothing has grown in our main field. I began noticing around the first of June that everything in our main field was growing very slowly.  It was like all of the plants were stunted.  So, I sent soil samples to NC State for testing.  Turns out that the pH in the field was way too low.  So, that has to be adjusted before the majority ofRead More →

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We will be starting our 2008 Farmers Market Season this Saturday at the Belmont Fresh Market.  We hope to have romaine lettuce, turnips, baby beets, some radishes and green onions. The Belmont Fresh Market opens at 8:00 am and closes around 11:30 am.Read More →