Pauline's Lucky Market Garden

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 s...

As another hot summer simmers to an end, so comes the beginning of fall  my favorite farming time.  High temps in the low 90's are going to transition into the 80's.  Lettuce seeds will break their dormancy and germinate again.  We can begin to seed all the cool season veggies.  Yes I did say "all" .  For years we have stuck safely to our specialty greens.  We have grown a few other  veggies, green beans and cucumbers mainly, but stayed away from trying to manage a large diversity of  crops.   We have worked hard to build our expertise and a steady customer following focused on a few high demand  cash crops  with no regrets but now we are ready to offer more veggie  choices.   So we have stocked up on seeds to try....spinach, beets, radishes, carrots, broccoli, parsley, snow and English peas for this...