Thorn Tree Ranch: Feeding the Future

06/11/2022

Super cool vendors today.🪴

06/11/2022

The best place to be at 6 AM is watching the garden wake up. Amazing.
We’ll be at a pop up shop at Smoothin’ & Groovin’ today from 10-3. I cut the lettuce and Swiss chard today. Zucchini and squash are ready to go. Only thing sprayed on them was rain. We have blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries…well, we will see if they get there without being eaten first.

05/29/2022

What’s for breakfast, lunch, and supper, and every hour in between.

08/26/2021

Look at these beautiful local flowers that were just dropped off!!

Come get a bouquet to freshen up any space and put a smile on your face!

Get one before we sell out!

08/05/2021

For the sake of saving time during the busy season, you get 4 different things in one post. 🤷🏼‍♀️
1) My bodyguard. Kid likes to take care of his momma.❤️ Ok, it’s really bc he’s scared of the neighbor dogs, but I don’t want to embarrass him.
2) We have organic-fed chicken eggs for farm pick up again.🎉
3) Our flowers are gorgeous this year and we are considering a upick. Interested?🌸
4) Have you met Mr. Thomas? I know, the name is super original.🙄 But, if you say it like “Mr. Thomas” from Narnia, it sounds cool.🦃

07/21/2021

I can’t fit my breakfast at the table for all the bouquets…but it is a pretty awesome view.🌻

Today we are delivering to a sweet friend and also to Smoothin’ & Groovin’ from 2-3-ish. Visit us there!

07/15/2021

Searcy friends, I think we know this girl!❤️

We have some exciting news!

Introducing Flower Fridays! 💐

Come see us between 11-2 & get a beautiful local bouquet from our friends at Thorn Tree Ranch:!

$15 a bouquet!

Come get some beautiful local flowers and lunch!

07/08/2021

Pretty sure he views the first watermelon of the year as the very best food on the planet.🍉

07/05/2021

It’s a beautiful Monday. ❤️ Happy to share the love!

06/29/2021

In for breakfast at 7:57 after cutting his flowers for local florists. 🌸
Know that if you support local Beebe florists, you are also supporting local flower farmers.❤️

06/24/2021

🌸Parenting tip...don’t talk to hardworking teens that set their alarms for 6 AM so they can cut flowers before the heat. Evidently they don’t like early morning chatter.
(but not at the crack of dawn)

06/23/2021

My coffee pot beeped that my miracle drink was ready and a nano-second later I heard feet hit the floor as the little boys jumped out of bed. Drawers opened and slid shut as they found clothes in the dark, then always the first question of the day, “where’s Dad?” Typically the answer is, “in the garden.” If that’s the case they grab their boots and run to get the day started.
If you ever see a farmer that’s wore out by 2 PM, now you know why.🐂🐓🌸🍐🍇🍉🫐🍅🥦🌶

06/22/2021

When the little boys show up in the early mornings, look for their boots, and head to the garden...that makes me think we are doing pretty ok with this parenting gig.

06/21/2021

Gardens and children need the same things- patience, love, and someone who will never give up on them. ~ Nicolette Sowder 🌸

06/17/2021

FB is letting me back in to our farm page! Yaaaay! Buckle up & enjoy the catch up pics.🫐

06/13/2021

First in a series of pics titled, “101 Ways to Use Insane Amounts of Squash and Zucchini”. 😳

#1 Sauté in olive oil for breakfast 🥒

🥒Recipes accepted. Link them in comments.🥒

05/18/2021

❤️Do you know how to tell if a farm kid had a good day?
👖The answer is in the laundry.

05/16/2021

The photographer needs to work on her angle...😬🥕

05/15/2021

Welp. Just hit “place order” on 717 of these babies! My conscience won’t let me buy that much plastic, and paper fiber recycles, so paper fiber it is!♻️ So, who is ready for the summer bounty?☀️🫐🍅 What garden yummies are you most looking forward to eating?

04/15/2021

Can you imagine the ego of the 5 pound rooster whose crow terrifies the 50 pound doodle? Poor Mudge doesn’t know that HE is supposed to be the man.

02/25/2021

The little boys collect eggs and place the basket in the kitchen floor before running back out to play. Looks like we need a new location for the basket...🐓🐓🐓

02/16/2021

Ever ask a hen what she thinks of -8 degrees? I did. She said it’s stupid and have you ever birthed a frozen popsicle?! She added a few explicit words but I won’t publicly say those.

12/27/2020

The 2021 Garden Planning meeting is underway! Ricky is all professional by setting everything up in Excel, and Sarah Katherine is very scientific using “Iny, Miny, Miney, Moe” to pick our pepper variety. I’ve learned not to mention flowers to Sophia Grace unless her chores are done...the queen of procrastination can pin “gorgeous” varieties to her flower board for hours upon hours.

11/05/2020

Chicken farming at it's best...
Wife: I think we have a critter. We should be getting more eggs than this.
Husband: No, it's because we are getting less day light.
30 MINUTES LATER
Husband runs inside from closing up chicken coop for the night and tells wife, "There is a big *** possum by the coop". Husband runs with gun, wife runs in her bathrobe to hold the flashlight over his shoulder.
2 MINUTES LATER
One dead, big *** possum.
Wife: You should learn to listen to your wife.😁

07/31/2020

Mocha (AKA Bob Ross when she’s late to get into the beauty parlor) will NOT take her eyes off her girl while she cuts flowers. Doggy BFF & security system in 1!
If you buy our flowers locally, today is a good day to get a weekend bouquet. The zinnias are GORGEOUS!

07/30/2020

This handful of a cowboy picked sungold tomatoes for Blooming Bee today! $2.5/pint. He took 2 pints.😉

07/27/2020

Twenty minutes in the garden yields all these beautiful colors.

07/25/2020

A raccoon is carving scoops out of our cantaloupe and a skunk is staying in our shop. Good times, good times.

07/14/2020

Looks peaceful, doesn’t it?

This is actually mother/daughter bonding while we laugh about the raindrops running off our noses! The garden was LOADED this morning and we kept on cutting, choosing to find joy in our wet situation.

These beauties are headed to , Grandma, and Natasha at .🌺

07/09/2020

If our teenage daughter starts with one of those lovely moods, I'm going to remind her that I voluntarily helped her cut these in the pouring rain this morning. Can't say I don't love her! We picked the biggest and best blooms...in the rain. Go grab some at Blooming Bee and $5 goes to ACH!

These zinnias were grown by the kids of Thorn Tree Ranch. My daughter Willow who is an ambassador for children’s hospital put them in vases....and today these kids will help make a difference in the life of another child fighting a hard battle 💛

07/02/2020

It’s super humid after today's rain shower, but he picked you some tomatoes Mrs. Cindy! Brother picked the rest, and I promise I told them to wash their hands first!

06/23/2020

These beauties went to Blooming Bee today. Honestly though, it’s hard to let all that sunshine go! So.many.colors.

06/18/2020

Sarah Katherine, 10, picking blueberries at 7 AM to put a couple dollars in her cow fund. She is blessed to be a hard worker by nature.

06/16/2020

Beebe folks, you can get our eggs, squash, flowers, and blueberries at Blooming Bee, in with Downtown Dreamer on Main Street. Take home one of Brittany's fabulous (and super affordable) bouquets for your dining table too! Yumminess in one stop and support local!

Zephr squash, organic soy free eggs & beautiful zinnias in shop from Thorn Tree Ranch

06/09/2020

I spy with my little eye...

3 TTR products that we ❤️. Can you spot them?

Today we have head lettuce $3.00
Leaks $3.00
Cucumbers 2 for $1.00
Olympian and white cucumber-easier on digestion
Canning cucumbers 2 for $1.00
Italian Romano green beans quart $4.00
Desk squash 3 for $2.00
Squash bundles $3.00
Organic soy free eggs dozen $5.00

All locally grown from Dripping Springs Farm
& Thorn Tree Ranch

And as flowers 💛

06/08/2020

Look at these beautiful colors! Go get yourself a gorgeous bouquet from Brittany at Blooming Bee on Beebe’s Main Street!

Look what Thorn Tree Ranch just brought in for use in this weeks bouquets 😍

Tomorrow we will have yellow squash from Thorn Tree Ranch as well.