Frecker Farms

Frecker Farms is an organic farm offering fresh produce to Santa Barbara county and surrounding areas for CSA members, local companies and Farmers' Markets
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Frecker Farms was founded by Alex Frecker in 2013. We are an 18 acre certified organic row crop farm located in beautiful Carpinteria, CA.

10/23/2024

Blossoms staying a little more closed these mornings until the sun coaxes them out of their slumber.

10/17/2024

Thank you thank you thank you for the opportunity to grow organic vegetables. I am so grateful to every individual who supports local, organic, hand crafted, small business, etc. etc. You allow ALL of US to do what we love to do every. single. day.

Looking forward to continued growth, learning, and fostering new and old relationships! Onward and upward!!

08/28/2024

Mountain magic on the vine, Sarah’s choice melon, squash blossoms with baby zucchini, and the seasons first passion fruit. Stoked to see y’all tomorrow

07/10/2024

We’ll have a limited amount of these ‘Valentine’ grape tomatoes tomorrow morning. I encourage you to come try one if you like tomatoes! The flavor is exceptional and unique! Might be the sweetest tomato I’ve ever had! 🍅 🍇 ☀️

07/03/2024

Wednesday morning art class.

07/02/2024

6th grade meditations. Thanks Jim Carrey for the early inspiration! 🤙🏽👉🏽

06/16/2024

First of the season heirlooms are the most coveted…clearly. Sharing tonight’s haul with a squirrel or mouse. Grateful for a piece of the ‘early season’ pie! 🍅🍅🍅

06/12/2024

Thank you all so much for finding us at the markets! We love having the opportunity to sell directly to the communities we live in and love! 💚🥕🍅🍓🥬

06/07/2024

It was a pleasure getting the opportunity to chat with of last Wednesday at the . Go check out Good Food (link in bio) to listen to the newest episode online airing later today or tune in live to KCRW tomorrow morning at 10AM! Yeww! 🤙🏽 🥕🥒🍅🍓

05/23/2024

Today felt like we made it to the big league…
The Santa Monica Wednesday farmers market is a retail venue coveted by any and all California producers. It’s a market that I have watched from a distance for over a decade. The energy is truly frenetic. Once 6:30AM rolls around, you better be ready to offload your product, present it properly, and prepare for the barrage of restaurateurs, wholesalers, and early birds. The interactions are quick and intentional. Everyone is vying for their prerogative to acquire that which is most in season or exclusive. It’s a beautiful thing to watch…and it’s an even more beautiful thing to be a part of. Thank you for your confidence in our farm. Thank you Santa Monica for your support. We are looking forward to becoming an integral part of the community!

05/21/2024

Lil’ haircut…

Pruning out greenhouse tomatoes helps increase airflow below the plant canopy, which reduces the ambient humidity near the plants root zone. This in turn helps mitigate the potential for powdery mildew, botrytis, and even blight. Happy plant environment = happy tomatoes. Who else is looking forward to tomato season?! 🍅 🍅

05/12/2024

I’m super excited and grateful to announce our entry into the . Today we attended the for our first Saturday and it was a beautiful thing. A huge thank you to the Santa Monica community for supporting local and organic…you guys rock! And a heartfelt thank you to the managers and employees that make the what it is. It takes an army.

Friends, keep aiming upward. Hard work really does pay off. And it may not look linear…and that’s ok. All I know is that when I work hard for something, it changes my perspective of what “hard” means to me. And then I realize that my perspective is often times what dictates my reality. Life seems to get easier in a weird way as the challenges surmount; but only if we learn to navigate them.

An ever changing perspective encourages an ever growing reality. Keep aiming upward! 🙃💚

05/09/2024

May things.

05/04/2024

116 flats this morning. It took 10 of us a little over an hour to harvest these strawberries.

If there was such a thing as “Farm Wars,” I’d like to nominate this crew. Looking at you 👀 🍓 💪🏾

04/28/2024

Personal fav.
Every year.
Hands down.

04/21/2024

Friends, California strawberry season is upon us. These strawberries were certified organically grown in the Carpinteria valley. Grateful for the opportunity, grateful the season, grateful for the support. Thank you! 🍓

03/09/2024

I’ve been getting excited this last week walking through our strawberry fields.

We have been fertilizing, cultivating, pulling flowers, and broadcasting beneficial mites for the last four months to get to this point in the crops maturity, and are just seeing the first fruit.

All indications point towards the potential for a good harvest. The plants seem well established and are ready for a productive season.

That all being said, there will of course be problems to solve, which ultimately leads me to this realization:

Every year I am looking forward to the challenges that each season brings, as they are opportunities for growth, experience, and a better fundamental understanding of what exactly we are attempting to accomplish over here.

Strawberry season is upon us. Challenge accepted.

12/02/2023

Afternoon delight.

Certified organic strawberries, bananas and passion fruit from the farm, alongside some beautiful dragonfruit grown by our friend Ben VDK. Doesn’t get much better.

11/22/2023

Farm stand open tomorrow from 10AM-2PM. If you like supporting organic farms and need some goodies for Thanksgiving come check us out tomorrow! Lots of:

Green beans (and French green beans)
Celery
Italian parsley
Leeks
Carrots
Cauliflower
Lettuces
Strawberries
Tomatoes
Etc, etc!

6701 Casitas Pass. Use the entrance with the ‘Farm Stand’ sign.

We are a self service farm stand, thank you for the support! 💚💚💚

11/16/2023

All morning ☁️ ☁️ ☁️ Happy first rain.

08/11/2023

Rainy day tomato harvest in August

06/30/2023

Ready for the weekend. Certified organic French beans on the menu for your 4th of July festivities! Come visit us at the markets! 🇺🇸

06/29/2023

Mountain Magic tomatoes. This variety is a winner any way you look at it. It feels good to finally incorporate tomatoes again into the daily routine. Who else is ready for tomato season? 🍅 🍅 🍅

06/21/2023

Round 2. No name yet, any suggestions?!

06/16/2023

It’s pretty hard to believe that it’s essentially the middle of June and we still haven’t seen any sunshine this season.

That being said, you can find a bit of sunshine and the taste of summer in the form of our cherry, grape and heirloom tomatoes at all of our farmers market locations this weekend. Who else is ready for a bit of sun and organic summer goodness?! ☀️ 🍅 🥒 🍆 🌶️

Address

6701 Casitas Pass Road
Carpinteria, CA
93013

Website

http://www.freckerfarms.com/

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Harvest time. Acorn squash getting binned up. @kikincharro showing you how to do it with ease... Lots of harvesting, transplanting, direct seeding, getting ground ready for 60,000 more 🍓’s. Always busy, but even more busy these days. It felt like fall this morning. #freckerfarms #organicfarming #harvesttime #acornsquashharvest #fall #planting #seeding #transplanting #busy #prepping #knowyourfarmer #supportsmallbusiness #supportorganicfarming #eatlocal #buylocal #eatorganic #buyorganic #acornsquash #wintersquash #october #efficient #santabarbara #carpinteria #certifiedorganic @kikincharro

A goat was born today at the farm. The birth was quick and discreet, and I wasn’t present for it. @kikincharro was and I am grateful for that. I am also grateful that I had the opportunity to witness and help a newborn goat learn how to feed and walk. Perspective is wonderful. . . . . . . . . . #freckerfarms #organicfarming #eatlocal #buylocal #supportorganicagriculture #supportorganicfarming #eatwhatyougrow #goats #sheep #bbs #placenta #goatmilk #getthatmilkgoat

Cada granja necesita algunos animales... @kikincharro . . . . . . . . . #freckerfarms #organicfarming #eatlocal #buylocal #supportorganicagriculture #supportorganicfarming #eatwhatyougrow #farmersmarket #supportsmallbusiness #certifiedorganic #supportlocalagriculture #wholesale #farming #chiva #borrega #goats #lamb #fullcircle

Super grateful for the rain and all that it provides. It is an essential resource. @kikincharro . . . . . . . . . #freckerfarms #organicfarming #eatlocal #buylocal #supportorganicagriculture #supportorganicfarming #eatwhatyougrow# #rain #rainfall #farmersmarket #supportsmallbusiness #certifiedorganic #supportlocalagriculture #farmersmarket #wholesale #spring #springshowers

Spring equinox post market with the cherry blossoms. No doubt one of my favorite times of year and a time during the season when the natural environment around me instigates a feeling of inspiration as well as obligation to do my job to the best of my abilities. I am very much looking forward to the season that awaits us! . . . . . . . . . . @kikincharro #freckerfarms #organicfarming #eatlocal #buylocal #supportorganicagriculture #supportorganicfarming #eatwhatyougrow# #cherryblossoms #farmersmarket #supportsmallbusiness #certifiedorganic #supportlocalagriculture #farmersmarket #wholesale #californiacherries #springequinox

If you ever want to feel some sincere love and connection with your community please go visit @penngitomer at any of the markets that he manages for us, you will be soooooo stoked, guaranteed! Just listen to the man do his thing! Santa Barbara Tuesday State Street Ojai Community Market Thursday Saturday La Canada Sunday Larchmont - # #freckerfarms #organicfarming #eatlocal #buylocal #farmersmarket #directmarketing #carpinteria #santabarbara #ojai #community #supportlocalbusiness #supportorganicagriculture

Swelter sesh in one of the greenhouses yesterday afternoon. Who needs a sauna when you have a 100 degree greenhouse to sweat in? Tomatoes getting staked and ready to string. #freckerfarms #greenhouseedition #organicfarming #eatlocal #winterfarming #organictomatoes #sweltersesh #sweating #sauna #smallbusiness #supportsmallbusiness #supportorganicfarming #supportlocalagriculture #directmarketing #farmersmarket #earlyseason #carpinteria #santabarbara @kikincharro

Battling the two spotted mite in our organic 2022 strawberries to ensure an abundant crop. We are using fallacis mites (beneficial mites) from @biotactics , and at this point in the season we have released 200,000 predatory mites. Let the biological warfare begin! #freckerfarms #organicfarming #strawberries #organicstrawberries #2022season #smallbusiness #supportsmallbusiness #supportorganicfarming #directmarketing #farmersmarket #biological #fallacis #twospottedmite #pmi #carpinteria #santabarbara #farmer @kikincharro

High speed cilantro harvest this morning! #freckerfarms #organicfarming #cilantro #certifiedorganic #eatlocal #buylocal #farmersmarket #directmarketing #csa #carpinteria #santabarbarafarmersmarket #santabarbara #greenhouses #winterharvest #supportsmallbusiness #smallbusiness #supportorganicfarming #knowyourfarmer @farmcartorganics

Merry Christmas y’all! Best Christmas present I could ask for! 🌧 🌧 #freckerfarms #organicfarming #californiachristmas #carpinteria #rain #resevoir #recharge #christmas #bestpresentever @kikincharro

Happy holidays Instagram friends and family! First of all, we want to thank you so much for all your support this last year! We couldn’t be the small scale organic farm that we are without all of your constant support week to week. Secondly, we wanted to inform you that our local Carpinteria farmers market will unfortunately be closed today due to the rain. That being said , we want to highlight that we will be at the Ojai farmers market this afternoon from 3pm - 7pm. RAIN OR SHINE. This is our last farmers market before the holiday! Please come support all all your local crafters, farmers, etc. We all work super hard to make these direct market opportunities happen each week. Many of these small businesses depend on this last boost of holiday sales, regardless of the weather. Penn will be holding down our stand today with the enthusiasm and spirit only this man can bring! We look forward to seeing y’all there! #freckerfarms #organicfarming #farmersmarket #directmarketing #supportlocal #getwet #ojai @ojaicommunityfm @mercadoocfm @penngitomer

It’s not always roses and unicorns over here. As organic farmers, we often times have to deal with pests. Currently, we are battling Thrips in our juvenile greenhouse cucumbers and sugar snap peas. Here is what the damage looks like on a young cucumber plant. Upon removing the infested leaf, you can see the tiny insects in the palm of my hand. In order to organically control this pest, we use Spinosad; which is a natural substance made by a soil bacterium. It is effective, safe, and of course, organically derived. We’ll keep ya posted on our battle against this voracious critter! #freckerfarms #greenhouseedition #organicfarming #pestmanagement #thrips #organic #cucumbers

That greenhouse magic y’all! Soooo fired up on our newest venture into greenhouse growing as the daylight wanes and the nights grow colder. It was so rad to be in greenhouses all day tending to these healthy plants as water fell from the sky today. Feeling stoked and reminded that diversity is where it’s at. In plants, people, animals, thoughts, actions…the list goes on and on. Here are some cucumber plants that are just about to reach maturity to brighten your day! #freckerfarms #organicfarming #greenhouseedition @kikincharro