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05/11/2022

Hey guys we are taking a break from this weekend. We apologise for any inconvenience. We’ll be back next week.

🌱 Head on down to the market to pick up beautiful gluten-free breads and baking from or scrummy chutneys and jams from or gut-friendly kombucha from .ferments to name just a few of the amazing makers and producers headlining our local farmers market.
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06/10/2022

Our first harvest of asparagus is on track for next spring.
This crop has been a labour of love as we started growing it from seed in 2020, transplanted out in November that year and we’ve weeded and tended to it with fresh compost and now we wait patiently to see if the fresh shoots will be the size of a little finger - ideal to size to start harvesting.
Who else enjoys this fresh, crisp seasonal hero?
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Always Growing. Natural . Real . Sustainable vegetables, herbs & salad and more.
Boyne Valley, Ireland.
Sat 10am -3pm

10/09/2022

Fresh ‘good for ya’ vege, herbs, honey and so much more today at Saturday 10-3pm.
See you there!

31/08/2022

Due to the circus being in town and staff holidays we’ve decided to take a one week break from both the farm stand and farmers market.
We apologies for any inconvenience. We hope to see you back in the 10 September.

16/08/2022

Ah Halloween came early for us! These wee self-sown beauties were discovered in a corner of the big glasshouse (yep that’s it official name😝) that had been ignored! A perfect find!

🎃In May we made the tough decision to not grow Halloween pumpkins this year. Finding these today has wrenched our inner kids and I’m pretty sure we’ll be planting them again in 2023!!
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09/08/2022

Wow! Thank you!
We had an incredible first week on the farmstand. The local support and amazing feedback on our naturally-grown vege and tomatoes is so appreciated!
🌱 This week the farmstand will be open Wednesday 1-5pm and Saturday 9-4pm. We look forward to seeing you then.

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29/05/2022

PEA WATCH!
We are in high alert here - one of us is going to get to try the first of the season’s peas! Tension is high😜.
Anyone else a fan of peas in pod?
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29/05/2022

Garlic season is here!
We’ve pulled our first harvest of garlic and it’s amazing (if we do say do ourselves!). Easily our best yet - bulbs are plump and the flavour is rich, strong with sweet undertones.
Fresh garlic straight from the ground is called green garlic where the stems can be used as well to flavour dishes. Dice it up like onions and use in a similar way.
We’ve included our garlic in this week vegetable boxes (Message is if you’d like to find out more about our weekly vegetables) and we’ll have them at Saturday 10am-3pm.
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27/01/2022

Anyone else enjoying the brighter mornings?
We are on the countdown to Valentines- not just because we love a bit of romance but because we’ll hit the magic number of 10 hours of daylight (f🤞it is Ireland after all😜).
Ten daylight hours is magic because that’s the minimum light requirements to get our seed/seedlings off to a great start before being transplanted after expected the last frosts April/May time.
We are absolutely itching to get sowing and growing!!
What’s the first seeds you’ll be sowing?
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08/12/2021

Beware of the glass - gasshouse are not where you want be during a storm!!

We battened down the hatches on Monday and only popped in to the farm mid morning yesterday to check on things. Thankfully only a small amount of damage from Storm Barra.
Hope you are all staying warm and safe.
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03/12/2021

It’s 7°c, overcast and basically just utter ick outside. So this is a total procrastination post😉 cos I’m meant to be going out harvesting for the tomorrow.
But first I had to get my flask of hot water ready + a banana for energy.
Then my wet weather gear including the best water proof gloves (), 15 year old woolly hat and my that Raj gave me this time last year (the best biz partner and sis’n’law I gal could have).
This weather is brutal for drying out skin so I slather on a good supply of moisturiser before and mid harvest. (I’m loving range at the mo thanks to for the recommendation).
Finally my main tools for harvesting are my crop list, Bluetooth earphones for podcasts/audible, tissues and these hard core secateurs awesome for cutting through hard stems and trimming leaves.
Well I suppose there’s no excuse not to get out there now.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow at the market 10-3ish with a lovingly harvested chemical free vegetables, herbs and honey all grown right here in our beautiful farm.

FYI fav podcast incl:


(The Food Growers Podcast)
Anyone got some other podcasts they’d recommend? (Doesn’t have to be growing related).
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07/11/2021

Blown away… literally!! The weather whipped up a blustery day at yesterday but it didn’t dampen the amazing folk, who are regulars and new faces, popping in to say hi, buy our fresh chemical free produce and share a smile. Thanks so much to you all for your continued support - it truly means so much to Raj, myself (Johanna) and our families.
Look forward to doing it all again next week - maybe without the wind 💨 Have a great week!
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05/11/2021

Freshly harvested and heading to Skerries Mills Farmers Market, tomorrow, Saturday 10am-3pm.
This week our stall is bolstered by the crossover of seasonal abundance - we can’t believe that we can be bringing summer crops like our tomatoes, cucumbers and courgettes to market still.
As well:
🌱salad leaves
🌱spring onions
🌱brussel sprouts
🌱french beans
🌱broccoli
🌱beetroot
🌱kale
🌱red + green peppers
🌱sweet dumpling squash
🌱basil, thyme, rosemary plants
🌱garlic
🌱onions
🌱raw honey
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30/10/2021

Some days you just need the whole family (kids and all) to pitch in!
Yesterday was harvest day for (Sat 30th 10am- 3pm) plus picking the final haul of the best Halloween pumpkins for Pumpkin HQ (Aka The Farmstand, Julianstown A92PK53) 8am-5.30pm
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23/10/2021

The farmstand is officially Pumpkin HQ! All shapes, sizes and personalities!
And remember our pumpkins are grown just down the road ( ), grown without pesticides or artificial fertilisers ( ) and by a small local team of market gardeners.
Open today till 5.30pm. And again Monday - Saturday 30th.
Find us on the Old Dublin - Belfast Rd, north’s side of Julianstown A92PK53
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17/10/2021

What’s that famous line from Forrest Gump - something like ‘Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” Well growing pumpkins is exactly the same.
We sowed over 4000 pumpkin and gourd seeds back in early May, hand-transplanted seedlings into compost and microbe rich soil in early June (🙏🙏🙏 to Team Teenagers), watered them and then left it the pollinators and Mother Nature to do the rest!!
Pumpkins naturally vine out along the ground, their big leaves stretch for the sky and form a dense sea of green - leaving no room for curious farmers to look beneath the surface. Under the chemical-free canopy, insects buzz happily from flower to flower pollinating as they go. Under the Irish sun the flowers swell into pumpkins and gourds and it’s not until the leaves start to die back late August- early September that we finally get a glimpse of their hidden bounty - pumpkins and gourds of all shapes, colours and sizes, warts and all.
It’s an amazingly magical crop to grow and equally fun to sell at this time of year.
Our pumpkins and gourds are available
- The Farm Stand Mon-Sat 10-6pm Old Dublin to Belfast Rd Julianstown A92PK53
- a small selection will be at on Saturday 23 + 30 Oct 10am-3pm
- Malahide Train Station Tuesday 19 + 26 Oct 6-7pm (our joint collection point with .ie )

29/09/2021

SAVE THE DATE! October 3rd 2021
Join us in The Piper's Garden for the return of the annual Sèamus Ennis Centre Food Fair under the covered courtyard.
Support local and independent producers and buy fresh, quality produce with lots of variety to choose from.

See you on Sunday October 3rd, from 10:30-4:30pm
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25/09/2021

With these beautiful Roma Tomato Sauce box - brimming with toms, onions, garlic and Rosemary. Also fully stocked with your vege, salad, salad and cherry tomato and herbs! See you till 3pm

11/09/2021

Another great day about to happen, with loads of chemical free goodness, Skerries Mills Farmers Market 10-3pm today. We look forward to seeing you

04/09/2021

at 10am-3pm.
Pop on down and check out all our freshly harvested vibrant vegetables, herbs and salads.

🍅Tomato
🥒Cucumbers
🥬Kale
🧅Onions
🧄Garlic
🎈Beetroot
🥕Carrots
🍆 Aubergines
🍯Honey
🪴Herbs
And do much more

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04/09/2021

Preorder is now open for week 3 of the .ie and fab collab.
Find the preorder link in .ie bio.

We have been so humbled by the incredible support and positive feedback from the and communities.
🙏 We really appreciate it. 🙏

This week our next succession of carrots will be headlining the Seasonal Vege Box offering along with mixed bunches of onions, garlic, tomatoes, kale and more. Preorder is also available for our Mixed Selection Tomato box and our Raw Summer Flower Honey.
We also have a limited number of Perfectly Imperfect Tomato boxes available. This box is full of overripe and if marked toms - ideal for small batches of soup, sauces and chutneys.
And of course .ie delicious pasture raised eggs are not to be missed. Preorder so as to avoid a last minute scramble 🤪

Collection is Tuesday evening 👉Malahide (6-7pm)and Port Marnock (7.30-8.30pm) train stations

🍅 we’d love it if you could share this news with others. 🍅
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*photos are of previous weeks vege boxes*

30/08/2021

School is back so new faces (more mature😜 faces) will be manning The Farm Stand @ Apple Tree Cottage Mon-Sat 10-6pm.
A massive thanks to Raj’s amazing daughters Lara and Janhavi, our nephew Murt and family friendly Connor for all they have done for our rather quaint farm stand (and market garden) over the summer. They all work tirelessly, doing some fun jobs and lots of back breaking job, and our market garden is better for it. Wishing you all a really fantastic year back at school.

Back to that farm stand … When Peter first fashioned a trailer into a farm stand, Raj and I kindly(😱) suggested that it wasn’t the image we were going for. However we had a load of farm fresh, chemical free produce to sell and it was all we had.
Well over the summer the farm stand has proved to be a bit of “rustic charm” you have all been looking for. You have loved it and our produce. We are so appreciative of the support you have all shown. A massive thank you.
As summer turns to autumn our produce will also start to reflect the change in season - more hearty goodness as well as our infamous pumpkin patch will appear just before Halloween. Keep an eye out for it all.

27/08/2021

And don’t forget us … the good food stalls!! Fresh vege, drinks, milk, eggs, cheese, breads, sweet treats and so much more!

...and these are our foody stalls on Saturday:
Bare Necessities Ireland Primal Produce Clonanny Farm Feisty Ferments cheese with Gerard, milk&eggs with John, MONSIEUR MACARON The Gluten Free Bakery Hella's Kitchen Sal Y Sol Producers Importers

The Mill cafe and gift shop are open too, fresh brown breads and scones sold in the foyer.
See you there!

27/08/2021

There is something for everyone at Skerries Mills Farmers Market. We’ll worth a visit!

24/08/2021

Well that was one of the best ways to spend an evening.
To all who came out tonight to and to collect their preordered vege and tomato boxes, raw summer flower honey + Cluck & Collect] pastured raised eggs thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
The interest and enthusiasm for fresh, wholesome, seasonal, chemical free produce was so heartwarming.
It’s such a pleasure to be part of this incredible community that James from Cluck & Collect is establishing.
Thanks again to you all and we’ll be back again next.
(Keep an eye out towards the end of the week for updates on what will be in next week’s veg boxes and how you can preorder them).

21/08/2021

So excited to share good food collab!

21/08/2021

Our egg and veg collab with cracking egg producer .ie has taken flight (sorry, all puns are intended🐣).
This week alongside their eggcellent pastured raised eggs you have the new option to preorder a seasonal vege box, a mixed selection tomato box and/or raw summer flower honey.
Available for Tuesday collection at Malahide or Port Marnock only.
Head over to .ie and click on the link in their bio to preorder and get info on collection points.
We are super excited to bring our chemical free vegetables, tomatoes and raw honey to the .ie family. See you on Tuesday.

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19/08/2021

We are super excited to share that our collaboration with ethical egg producer Cluck & Collect] .ie is expanding.
Cluck and Collect offer a preorder and collection point service that we’ll be joining for a soft start next Tuesday evening in Malahide and Port Marnock.
We will have a seasonal vege box (with an option to add our raw honey) and/or tomato box available for preorder.
More details to follow tomorrow on both ours and Cluck & Collect] .ie pages.
Who’s excited? … let the veg and egg fest begin.
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18/08/2021

A little farm stand jingle from our singing farmer, Pete ‘Pavarotti’. 😜 featuring ‘dancing queen’ Janhavi.
The Farm Stand (A92PK53) is open Mon - Sat 9-5am stocked with our fresh daily harvested, chemical free , , , and .ie pasture raised eggs!
You’ll find us on the Old Dublin -Belfast Rd, Julianstown, Meath.