Hours of operation during growing season:
Wednesday through Sunday, 10:00 to 5:00.

We are now open and the crop is bountiful. Stop by and have your vegetables straight from the garden!

After reflecting on the knowledge and beliefs we'd gained over the span of our lifetimes, Mark felt strongly that we should tend our gardens in an all natural fashion, and I whole heartedly agreed. Thus began our no chemicals, no pesticides, no synthetic fertilizers, no genetically modified plants (hybrids), greener way of life.

By definition relevant to gardening, organic is, the process of growing plans with natural fertilizers with no chemical additives. That's exactly what we do! We are preventing the poisoning of those that enjoy our produce and to the part of the Earth that we are using, and that to me, is an encouraging thought. It is a great feeling to be growing a garden that is creating numerous benefits. We are watching goodness grow.

To those within the mind set of 'quickest, easiest, least messy is the best method', our ways can seem quaint. It is easy to use pesticides and quicker to spray chemicals. I feel those methods sour the land and poison it's creatures and ourselves. We chose not to harm the land nor the plants that feed us. Choosing to be organic is a very simple decision, but it is not easy. Often I think of Kermit the Frog singing 'It's not easy being green' because there is much truth there for me. Gardening organically can be much more challenging. I love that aspect becuase it causes us to think more creatively and most of the time we rely on the methods of our ancestors. How was it done efore quicker and easier were available? By hand and with care and patience. It adds to our roll as gardeners, we have become the pesticides! My mornings begin with pest control. Picking off potato bugs and squishing tomato worms. I'll take this as a moment to apologize to my neighbors for my little girl scream that comes from our garden, almost every time I find one. I can't help it, they give me the willies. I take that nauseous feeling everyday because I know plucking bugs is a safer garden method all around and that thought instantly ceases the queasies. Humorous too, I know my boys giggle when I'm bug plucking, I guess it's an entertaining sight.

As well as helping our part of the environment and offering cleaner produce, we have one customer who lives in the village, about a mile away, and every other day she chooses to walk to us to get her veggies. How cool is that, to be an incentive for her exerise routine? Plus, she goes home from her two mile walk and has fresh picked organic veggies for dinner. Goodness grows. As for ourselves, our diet is about 90% organic and I could fill pages on how an organic diet has ruly changed our lives. I have seen, in the three of us, many beneficial changes in demeanour, health, and character. Especially in our five year old son, who seems a much happier and focussed child since our diet switch, with a strong love for gardening developing already. If you want a thorough tour, he's the one best fit to take you. He'll show you all the heirloom varieties we have growing (we grow heirloom varieties because they are the clean strains, not plants that have been modified in a lab). You'll be invited to the garden when you stop by!