Pauline's Lucky Market Garden

It's not even December yet but today we will be pulling row covers over many of our veggie beds to keep the greens from getting damaged as we expect temps to be at freezing tomorrow morning.  Yes we do get frosts in Central Florida especially inland most winters although most often in January and February.  We hate to lose a week of harvesting greens or anything for that matter!  We have found that using light weight row covers over our peas, letttuces and even kales makes a difference and prevents most of the leaf damage we would find by not doing anything.  When we see a forecast with temps 36 f or lower, on go the covers!

It's a busy week as we prepare to welcome the public for a brief visit 11:45-12:30 on Friday Nov  21,  as part of  the 2014  Volusia County Farm Tour.  This will be our third time participating and we are excited about this opportunity to give those who come a glimpse of our small farm lifesyle and how we operate our mini farm.  We are getting ready for a big crowd, setting up things we think our visitors might be interested in. For those who wish to buy our farm fresh veggies on site, we will have a tent with tables of  our seasonal specialty veggies (whatever is plentiful and ready for harvest) on sale.  This year we will also have jars of our very popular Beauty berry syrup a new cottage food that we began to make in our farm kitchen  this summer.  We enjoy sampling it out at our farmers markets. So many people recognize  the branches with their vibrant purple berry clusters that we display next to the jars of syrup and but are surprised to find out about their culinary uses!  A