Hunters Farm & Produce

08/26/2024

First day of kindergarten!

08/24/2024

Not hanging our hats up yet, off to Anne arundel county fair!

08/22/2024

Good luck to all our Howard County Friends who will be exhibiting at the Maryland State Fair over the next three weekends. Whether you’re exhibiting livestock, baked goods, flowers, vegetables, photography, etc —— BRING HOME LOTS OF PURPLE RIBBONS!
The State Fair runs from August 24-27,
August 31-September 4 & September 7-10.
Make a trip to Timonium & cheer on our exhibitors!

08/18/2024

We are headed to the state fair tomorrow!

08/17/2024

We are open for honey sales until 2:00 today.

Singles are reduced to $15.00 per lb $1.00 off
2lbs for $28.00 5lbs for $65.00

08/17/2024

Click on the links below to check out the results in the various divisions. Congratulations to all our exhibitors!

FARM CROPS
https://showorks.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?file=755891_2024_Open_Farm_Crops_Results

FRUIT & VEGETABLE
https://showorks.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?file=755891_2024_Open_Fruit_and_Veg_Results

HONEY & BEESWAX
https://showorks.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?file=755891_2024_Open_Honey_and_Beeswax_Results

WOOL, FLEECE & FIBER
https://showorks.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?file=755891_2024_Open_Wool_Fleece_and_Fiber_Results

08/16/2024

You can leave the farm for a few days but I promise farming will follow you, Hunter in Michigan at a local dairy farm near his grandparents.

Did you know Michigan has over 1,100 dairy farms? That’s more than 430,000 cows producing milk daily.

Maryland has roughly 300 dairy farms still producing today, which hold roughly 40,000 heads in total.

08/12/2024

Fair week special!

Combless extracted
$16.00 per lb for single

Special 🍯
2lbs $28.00
5lbs $72.00!

Comb in
$18.00 per lb for singles

Special 🍯
2lbs $33.00
5lbs for $82.00

Give us a shout for pick up!

08/12/2024

08/12/2024

From Howard County Fair to Montgomery County Ag Fair, MD then off to the Maryland State Fair, 5 ribbons, 2 fairs so far & many more to come.

It’s been a busy week here at the house but we’re not stopping yet, Hunter & I both had a pleasure of shaking hands with Governor Larry Hogan Saturday, another great man supporting howard county’s local farmers.

08/05/2024

What does a honey judge look for when judging?

Honey should be clear from streakiness or solid air scum or fermentation.
It must have a good aroma and taste.
The honey should have a butter texture with no movement in the jar.
There must be uniformity of colour, cream to white with no air spaces or bubbles at the sides of the jars also there should be a clean dry surface with no sign of scum or fermentation and undue shrinkage from the sides of the honey jars or honey frosting. The honey should have a good aroma and taste.

Judging points & what they judge.

1. Container: appearance
10 points
2. Density
20 points
a. Water content above 18.6%: Disqualified
b. No upgrading below 16% water content
3. Freedom from crystals
10 points
4. Cleanliness and freedom from foam
30 points
5. Flavor
20 points
a. Downgrade for objectionable flavor or overheating
b. Disqualify for fermentation
6. Accuracy of filling
10 points
a. Product to the fill line just below the jar cap. In absence of a fill line, the product level with the bottom of the jar cap with no visible air gap.
b. If multiple entries: uniformity of filling

08/05/2024

08/05/2024

We have freshly picked peppers, tomatoes, squash & fresh extracted honey.

We are open until 3 today.

08/04/2024

1st place in catagory 14 forfarm crop & vegtables, We let the judges decide who offers the best in howard county yesterday.

08/04/2024

08/02/2024

We are officially closed until Monday

Hunter & I want to wish everyone good luck & a safe week at the fair, we are excited to see what this county has to offer this year & how hard the 4H has worked to maintain farm crops & livestock this year, we are happy to display what we’ve worked hard all summer on.

See everyone at the fair!

08/01/2024

We’ve got some people wonderful people under our stars!

07/25/2024

Most People Don't Know How Important is This Plant 🌿
Full guide in the first comment 💬👀

07/25/2024

We are sold out of our big tomatoes until hunter figures out which ones we are picking & showing at the fair but we will have plenty of regular sized sandwich tomatoes.

Local Howard county corn $0.75 an ear

07/20/2024

3 dozen egg special for $13.00! Today only.

07/19/2024

We are open!

Will we have honey this weekend? Yes, I will be there extracting this weekend!

07/18/2024

It’s not much but we have a little available

Big beefs

Peaches
Cucumbers
Squash

We will have white corn available tomorrow.

We are open until 9!

07/18/2024

We’re ready for the Howard County Fair, see you all in a few days!

07/17/2024

2024 LIVESTOCK, DAIRY & BREEDING ANIMAL JUDGES are ANNOUNCED!!

With opening day of the 78th ANNUAL HOWARD COUNTY FAIR less than 20 days away, exhibitors are excited to be making their last-minute preparations for the fair competitions. Check the fair website - howardcountyfairmd.com for a detailed schedule of events for the specific dates & times of each show.
SEE YOU AT THE FAIR - August 3-10!!

07/16/2024

How do we maintain our small crops here? We cultivate the ground regularly, water 4 hours every evening & go through every plant to make sure every plant is getting what they are suppose to get to be healthy!

We will have tomato’s soon, we are just waiting for the heat to drop a little for ripening!

Tomato’s will be $2.50 per lb for beefsteaks, big reds & other sandwich tomato’s!

Cherry quarts will be $4.50

Local peaches will be available this weekend for $4.50 per container

07/14/2024

We had fun at the beach for sure! The rain held off for the most part while we know most of you guys back home here got a good bit of rain which was well needed!

These are our new shirts! If anyones interested in supporting us at the Howard county fair give us a shout!

07/05/2024

Specials!
1 dozen eggs/half dozen white or bicolor corn for $8.00!
2 dozen eggs with a dozen corn for $15!
Local corn & local eggs.

06/27/2024

Keep the blue on your collar & keep the sweat on your dollar

06/23/2024

Extracted some more honey yesterday, these are comb in jars!

06/21/2024

Fun fact about honey bees! Bees, are mostly attracted to flowers that have white, yellow, blue, or ultra-violet blooms, these little guys show a preference to visit flowers of just one species during a foraging trip.

How is nectar turned into honey? Nectar is stored within their stomachs & is passed from one worker to the next until the water within it diminishes. At this point, the nectar becomes honey, which workers store in the cells of the honeycomb.