Organic Garden Plants Line Up!

 We will be growing our Organic bedding plants for your gardens again this year!! (I can hear my celery lovers cheering. :) Plants will be available at the farm store, The Greenhouse at Total Landscape (Madelia, and Bluestem Garden Works (Comfrey).

Here's the final list of what we'll be growing this season. (Plants may vary by location.)

German Johnson

Celery, Ventura

Cabbage, Copenhagen

Kohlrabi, Terek

Cauliflower, Snow Crown

Broccoli, DeCicco

Jalapeno, Early

Tomatoes:

Amish Paste

San Marzano (Paste)

German Johnson (Slicer, BLT fav)

Sun Gold (yellow cherry, prolific)

Hungarian Heart *NEW from Ribilzi Seed Co, New Ulm

Weavers Black Brandywine (slicer, BLT fav)

Brandywine (slicer)

Cucumbers:

M-76 Cucumber (green slicer)

Common Wealth Pickling

Silver Slicer Cucumber (white slicer, personal fav)

Amish Paste

Squash:

Zucchini, Cocozelle

Butternut, Block Party 

Acorn, Thelma Sanders

Delicata Bush

Watch for delivery dates and greenhouse opening dates!!

March Final Winter Markets!!

 Final Winter markets this month!! Last chance to find us at the Mankato Farmers Market until August, when apples come in. Plenty of Organic winter greens still in abundance into early April.

Cabin fever sale is ongoing through these markets! Watch for detail about Organic Spring bedding plants!

Cabin Fever Sale!!

Time to run a little Cabin Fever Sale to celebrate the end of the Winter Farmers Market season and chase away the end of Winter! A few select items will be on sale both at the Farm Store, as well as at March Winter Markets!

About the one time a year you'll catch some of these items on sale.

 March 7th and 21st will be the last time you find us at the Mankato Farmers Market until August!! (When apples come in!)

This is a great time to stock up on tinctures, and build your herbal medicine cabinet.

About 4-6 weeks remaining of our season for Winter Organic Greens!! Be sure to enjoy them while they last!! 

What is an Herbal Tincture?

Herbal tinctures are one of the main components of our medicine cabinet. They are a great way to build your holistic medicine cabinet.

These highly concentrated liquid herbal extracts are perhaps the most popular form of herbal medicine, alongside teas.

Herbs (fresh or dried) are macerated in alcohol to extract their beneficial properties. Glycerin or vinegar may also be used, but will not last as long.

We have used herbal tinctures for many years, with great success. With proper resources we have used them for our youngest since he was born.

Now that he's older I find great joy in including him in the tincture making process and and proud he will grow up with these skills.

We began offering herbal tinctures several years back, as I want to share this resource with our community. We have offered several tinctures in our line up, and added a couple over the years. Our Herbal Sore Throat Spray and Digestive Bitters tincture are blends of herbal tinctures.

Holy Basil, Stinging Nettles, Ashwaganda, Elderberry, Willow Bark and Astragalus are featured in our offerings. 

Our tinctures are made from locally foraged plants, farm grown plants or purchased Organic from Mountain Rose Herbs.

Do you use herbal tinctures? Are you interested in learning to make your own?

Mid Feb. Farm Store Updates

Valentine's is just around the corner, which means seeds are about ready to be started in the greenhouse!!! Like seeds for spring, and the garden, not all those lush looking microgreens below!!

Here's this weeks (and maybe next week's) updates...

Upcoming Markets

Find us at the Winter Mankato Farmers Market (Bomgaars), Graze Coop (New Ulm) and The 507 Outskirt (New Ulm) through the end of winter into spring! Here's February...

• February 14 - Graze Coop Vendor Day 9-12
• February 21 - Winter Mankato Market 9-12
• March 7 & 21 - Winter Mankato Market 9-12
• April 18 - 507 Outskirt (New Ulm)

What's at the Farm Store?

Zesty micros, arugula micros and pea shoots are in good supply for the forseeable future!! Fresh harvests happening weekly. 

Back in stock: Apple Butter, Lotion Bars

Canned Goods:

-Applesauce

-Apple Butter

-Elderberry Jelly

Organic Greens:

-Zesty Microgreens

-Arugula Microgreens

-Pea Shoots

*Greens will also be delivered to Graze Coop most Tuesdays!

Herbal Wellness & More:

-Elderberry Syrup Kits - DIY kits with ginger and cinnamon  *Limited for the rest of the season.

-Digestive Bitters NEW - herbal tincture blend that stimulates digestion, helps sluggish digestion, balance blood sugar and so much more.

-Herbal Sore Throat Spray - use for sore and dry throats, as well as when you get that little tickle in the back of your throat

-Herbal Tinctures - Willow Bark, Stinging Nettles, Holy Basil, Astragalus, Ashwaganda, Elderberry

-Calendula Lotion Bar - solid lotion bar, lightly scented with lavender EO**

-Knitbone Salve - sprains, strains, broken bones, pain and soreness, tendonitis/artritis, external use only**

-Bruise Salve - prevent or treat bruises, good for small wounds also

-Cottonwood Wound Relief Salve - all your cuts, burns, hangnails, general wounds, big and small, a natural neosporin + pain relief

     **Starting to run low.

Eggs: Chickens are on the rebound from dismally low egg numbers. Hoping to have extra eggs on the shelf for sale by Late Winter/Spring, when the pullets start laying.

I make organic olive oil infused with many different herbs for our holistic wellness items. This is a beautiful jar of calendula flowers!! I have run to the bottom of my stock of oil and fresh flowers are still so far away!! I'll have to make plenty this summer. This nourishing oil is use in both our Cottonwood Wound Relief Salve and the Calendula Lotion Bars.

Valentine's Day Pop Up!!

You can find me this coming Saturday at the Graze Co-op, downtown New Ulm.

It's Valentine's Day! Come show some local LoVe!

See you at the Graze Co-op from 9:00am to Noon! Have a chance to shop other products from the farm that you can't usually find on the Coop's shelves - more herbal wellness, canned goods and of course our greens!

Great for your Greens :: ACV Dressing

 

This is absolutely my fav salad dressing that I always have on repeat! I make a double batch in a pint jar and just shake it!!

Also goes great on a quinoa salad.