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providing pesticide free fresh local produce for over 30 years Fresh local produce grown within Iowa City limits.

You may place an order by phone or email and pick up by appt. We will try to have farm stand on Fridays in pm, also will be at most Saturday Farmer's Markets in Iowa City. Our produce is sold at New Pioneer and featured at Waterfront Hyvee. However we sell to various local markets and restaurants throughout the season depending on what we have available and what is needed.

30/06/2025

Everyone open the door and look inside... have a good look ... don't be scared... its a vast universe and we are part of it! YES that in it self is miraculous... Take care of yourself and enjoy your part in this neck of the universe. Yes it's Monday so deliveries made of kale and herb and flower bouquets 💐 to New Pioneer in Iowa City and Coralville. Thanks for your support.
Divination of the First Light: A Cosmic Poem for the Vera Rubin Observatory by Maria Popova
we are
the matter of tomorrow
pulsating in today
children of a billion explosions
alone together
In the swarm of change
each a system of mysteries
built to focus
the golden nebula of now
in the vast dark sky of never
our mission
to make our passing light
known to each other
comets of the possible

28/06/2025

Each day is a gift 🎁 ☺ . Sometimes it is good to focus on that and realize it is not a sprint but a marathon. Deliveries of kale and herb and flower bouquets and sunflowers made yesterday to New Pioneer in Coralville and Iowa City. ENJOY!

Gardening

Pruning the rosebush

the ache of the summer heat

on my shoulders,

the feel of the living stalk

between fingers,

petals - one, another,

then another

seek ground, life

not strong enough to hold on.

Whether it's blood

or petals, the gift

of time is a thread

I stand on,

feet covered

in the soft

broken soil,

shears meet

the slight resistance

of a living thing.

~ Jonathan Bohnr

24/06/2025

Guess what just got delivered to New Pioneer in Iowa City... yup 12 herb and flower bouquets... hope you can smell the difference... Also dropped off the last of the lettuce and some kale to both Iowa City and Coralville New Pioneer. Enjoy your week and as always we appreciate your business 🙂.

Carl Dennis: "Still Life"

Now's a good time, before the night comes on,
To praise the loyalty of the vase of flowers
Gracing the parlor table, and the bowl of oranges,
And the book with freckled pages resting on the tablecloth.
To remark how these items aren't conspiring
To pack their bags and move to a place
Where stillness appears to more advantage.
No plan for a heaven above, beyond, or within,
Whose ever-blooming bushes are rustling
In a sea breeze at this very moment.
These things are focusing all their attention
On holding fast as time washes around them.
The flowers in the vase won't come again.
The page of the book beside it, the edge turned down,
Will never be read again for the first time.
The light from the window's angled.
The sun's moving on. That's why the people
Who live in the house are missing.
They're all outside enjoying the light that's left them.
Lucky for them to find when they return
These silent things just as they were.
Night's coming on and they haven't been frightened off.
They haven't once dreamed of going anywhere.

21/06/2025

( in time of rising hate, fear and division, a moment of contemplation)
happy summer solstice by David Rendle

Surging through veils,
to enhance, to heal,
recharge, renew, reveal,
time to celebrate,
through spirit, mind, and heart,
the turning of the seasonal wheel,
under the influence,
of a full strawberry moon,
swirl in peace for awhile,
solitary or in company,
kiss goodbye to the last shades of spring,
pay homage to forces of nature we trust,
as earth's darkness returns to light,
and summertime is reborn.
☀️🔥

18/06/2025

"If one day you become sick of words, as happens to us all, and you grow tired of hearing them, of saying them; if whichever you choose seems worn out, dull, disabled; if you feel nauseated when you hear 'horrible' or 'divine' for some everyday occurrence - you'll not be cured, obviously, by alphabet soup.

You must do the following: cook a plate of al dente spaghetti dressed with the simplest seasoning - garlic, oil and chili. Over the pasta toss in this mixture, grate a layer of Parmesan cheese. To the right of the deep plate full of the spaghetti thus prepared, place an open book. To the left, place an open book. In front of it a full glass of red wine. Any other company is not recommended. Turn the pages of each book at random, but they must both be poetry. Only good poets cure us of an overindulgence in words. Only simple essential food cures us of gluttony."
- Héctor Abad Faciolince

17/06/2025

We delivered yesterday to New Pioneer in Iowa City and Coralville. Yup it was hot and muggy but we got her done... won't have lettuce for much longer with this heat so enjoy it while you can. Doesn't a cool crispy salad sound like a treat on days like this. So enjoy 😉 our romaine, green leaf, red leaf lettuce while you can along with kale for the rest of the season.. Flower bouquets will be coming soon. 💐

Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely- make that miraculously- fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you
~ Bill Bryson
ourself

14/06/2025

BLOOM NOT BOOM

I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings

I am a parcel of vain strivings tied

By a chance bond together,

Dangling this way and that, their links

Were made so loose and wide,

Methinks,

For milder weather.

A bunch of violets without their roots,

And sorrel intermixed,

Encircled by a wisp of straw

Once coiled about their shoots,

The law

By which I'm fixed.

A nosegay which Time clutched from out

Those fair Elysian fields,

With weeds and broken stems, in haste,

Doth make the rabble rout

That waste

The day he yields.

And here I bloom for a short hour unseen,

Drinking my juices up,

With no root in the land

To keep my branches green,

But stand

In a bare cup.

Some tender buds were left upon my stem

In mimicry of life,

But ah! the children will not know,

Till time has withered them,

The woe

With which they're rife.

But now I see I was not plucked for naught,

And after in life's vase

Of glass set while I might survive,

But by a kind hand brought

Alive

To a strange place.

That stock thus thinned will soon redeem its hours,

And by another year,

Such as God knows, with freer air,

More fruits and fairer flowers

Will bear,

While I droop here.

~ Henry David Thoreau

14/06/2025

Serving up! Order out!
Delivering now to New Pi Coop.
Lettuce and Kale.

Thanks for your support!

11/06/2025

Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry. — J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye.

10/06/2025

Everyday magic for everyday people....
All boxed up and delivered to New Pioneer in Iowa City and Coralville yesterday. Love yourself some lettuce . We appreciate you.

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.

Charles de Lint

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