Around the Farm - Late November and December 2011

The Delaware Wreath

  Santa and Mrs. Claus visit Cider Fest

 Local all-natural soaps made by Little Hill Soap Company, Laurel DE

 Cider Fest hayrides

 Smores by the fire

 Abbott's Grille cooking demos at our Holiday Open House

 Getting ready for Christmas 

 Wreath making demos at our Open House

 Live music at Fall Fest

 Harvest Hustle 5K start

Harvest Hustle 5K awards

 Fresh local wreaths

 Old 1935 Ford dressed up for Christmas

 Local Christmas trees

 Store front

 End of Fall 2011

 Fifer Gift Baskets

 Fifer apples

Harvest Hustle 2011

Around the Farm - Late August 2011

First pumpkin picking of the year

CSA box pickup - Matt Tappan

Green beans and tomatoes = summertime

A view from our new corn maze observation deck

Constructing the observation deck

Summer squash

CSA flowers

U-pick peaches

Summer produce on the deck

Summer apples

2011 pumpkin patch

pumpkin blossoms in the sun

Around the Farm - June 2011

Sunrise over the blueberry patch. Pick-your-own now open.

New asparagus beds ferning out for the summer.

Young sweet corn plants being cared for

Young pumpkin plants

We plant our pumpkins in to rye cover crops. This creates a pillow of protection for the pumpkins when they develop.

Irrigating sweet corn.

Sweet corn getting close to harvest. June 22nd will be our first picking.

High tunnel tomatoes

Tomato harvest began June 18th out of the tunnels.

Peach harvest begins June 21

Fifer Blueberries coming on strong

Spring 2011

Apple Bloom 2011


Wow, Peach Bloom!


Planting asparagus crowns


Asparagus is planted in trenches

Around the Farm - November 2010

Mid-State 4-H Club pie samples


Open House - Free samples


Hayrides


Soybeans almost mature. They end up feeding chickens on Delmarva.


Pumpkin donuts for a limited time only.


Local honey


Fifer tomatoes until Christmas via our high tunnels.


Fall gourds and Indian corn


25 varieties of Fifer apples


Cherry tomatoes


Local lima beans - Dr. Martin variety


Fall Veggies


Cole crops


Pumpkin madness


Specialty pumpkins


New pumpkin train!




Gift basket collection






30 year old apple orchard being retired. New apples have already been planted.




Pumpkin patch 2010


Cover crops ready to conserve and preserve soil this winter. They also provide organic matter and nutrition in the spring.


Fifer peach trees getting ready to drop leaves and go in to hibernation mode.