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Edited 6/6/2024 PLANT SALE pop-ups are cancelled for the rest of the summer growing season. When produce becomes available, *IF* we have an abundance, we will offer some for sale and announce that here. Our farm is a small-scale kitchen/market garden, no dig, NO-synthetic chemicals, regenerative style that we started to grow our own food so we know our food is free from synthetic chemical fertilizers/pesticides. We are NOT a large scale operation and when we have produce available we do not compete on pricing with big box stores that sell produce that is trucked in from wherever and grown using synthetic chemical methods (BTW, all of that is heavily subsidized by tax dollars and if not for that corporate welfare to industrial farms the price of that poison would be astronomical). We do all the work ourselves and we know exactly what goes into growing healthy food in extremely challenging conditions of the high desert/East Mountains. We enthusiastically encourage everyone to begin growing something for themselves--because everyone can. Yes, even in an apartment you can grow basil in a sunny window or lettuce on a patio/balcony in containers. This year we are also experimenting with growing some lettuce (and perpetual spinach chard-not shown) as a living mulch for tomatoes, peppers, etc. The idea is that the lettuce helps shade and cool the ground around the tomatoes, peppers, etc. BONUS for us is that we have a 2nd food crop and we are NOT using any more water to produce it. So far, it's looking good though lettuce can get tricky and bolt when summer temps soar. The speckled variety of lettuce shown in the picture is called "Forellenschluss" -- seeds were purchased from Baker Creek where they describe Forellenschluss as an ..."Old Austrian heirloom; the name means “speckled like a trout.” A superb, gorgeous romaine lettuce that is highly splashed in deep red. Very beautiful and tasty." We've had a few salads made with it and it is, indeed, very tasty.
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