Two Pony Gardens

05/22/2024

THE NEWS YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR: The BIG Two Pony Plant Sale is ON this weekend!

WHERE: The Two Pony Greenhouse - 1700 Deer Hill Road, Long Lake , MN 55356

Please be respectful of neighbors and animals on Deer Hill-drive slowly and be careful on the Two Pony driveway- there are some blind turns and a family of turkeys has been hanging out in the road. Gobble Gobble.

WHEN: This Thursday, Friday & Saturday 11AM - 4PM!

We will have limited number of boxes for carting plants so bring a box if you have one handy/come early if you have your heart set on a specific variety.
WHAT: Hyper-local, super healthy plants grown by hand with love and the highest of standards! Two Pony pre-started dahlias, all the tomatoes one could ever dream of: organic, heirloom varieties and dependable organic hybrids started in the best and most thoughtfully mixed soil, lots of pictures and written descriptions to help you make your garden dreams a reality. There will also be herbs to boot! We will also have limited quantities of Two Pony’s Favorite Honey from our beekeeper friends at Stray Pine Apiaries.
HOW to PAY: Who doesn’t love cash!? But we understand it’s 2024 (!?) so we also accept Venmo

05/19/2024

Asparagus harvest last night. Come visit the farm tomorrow, Sunday 5/19 from 11am - 4pm. Soft Opening of the Two Pony Plant Sale - this weekend Tomatoes and Herbs only! Payment accepted: cash and VENMO ()!
NO DAHLIAS FOR SALE UNTIL 5/23 when we will be opening the Greenhouse doors and making everything available. No sneaking in the greenhouse!!! We won’t be selling dahlias this weekend, so if that is what you are after save yourself a trip and we will see you 5/23 or 24th or 25th! More details on that will be shared from The Foundry next week! We love you Two Pony People!

05/18/2024

Today!! Saturday 5/18 & Sunday 5/19 from 11M - 4PM Soft Opening of the Two Pony Plant Sale - this weekend Tomatoes and Herbs only!

NO DAHLIAS FOR SALE UNTIL 5/23 when we will be opening the Greenhouse doors and making everything available. Make sure you are signed up for the The Foundry Home Goods emails in order to get the details on all things Two Pony these days!

If you are so kind as to join us this weekend please remember that the greenhouse is OFF LIMITS and we’re accepting cash and VENMO ()!

Our boundaries around the sale of dahlias this weekend is hard so if that is what you are after save yourself a trip and we will see you 5/23 or 24th or 25th! More details on that will be shared from The Foundry next week! We love you Two Pony People!

05/11/2024

Lisa went a little bit overboard this year with seed starting. We think she may be a bit sad about the other ways in which we've minimized the "business" part of Two Pony, as part of her processing and coping mechanism she grew a bunch of enormous tomato plants. WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE THIS WEEKEND AT at their NEW LOCATION :
905 N 5th St, Minneapolis, MN 55401

NOON - 6PM
FRIDAY / SATURDAY / SUNDAY
Sunday - Mothers Day Celebrity Appearance
by Lisa Ringer (Anna's Real Life Mom)

TYPES OF TOMATOES AVAILABLE :

Amish Paste - Heirloom Paste Type, Great for Sauces!
Cherokee Purple - Mid/Late Heirloom, Crowd Fav, Green Shoulders/Dusky Brown Purple
Defiant - Hybrid, Resistant to Blight! Classic Red and Early!
Hungarian Heart - Heirloom, Huge, Beautiful, Beefsteak, Two Pony Favorite
Jaune Flamme - Mid/Early Heirloom, Apricot colored, delicious, 2 - 4 oz fruits, prolific!
Jubilee - Orange! Heirloom, Great for Juicing!
Tasmanian Chocolate - Patio/Container variety, 8-12 oz fruits, red
Striped German - Beefsteak Heirloom, Huge!
Sungold - Sunny orange cherry, early! Hybrid and prolific
Super Bush - Patio/Container Variety, Full Slicer!

The plants we've rehomed to The Foundry Home Goods are the best, the biggest, a great representative of our favorite varieties, these plants are huge and ready to go home with seasoned gardeners or newbies to growing your own! Thanks for helping us make some space in the greenhouse because we are hoping that you'll want to come out at the of the month when our entire stock is ready to be adopted. Please use the provided sheets to track your tomato purchase and bring just the paper to the counter when you are ready to check out, so you don't have to schlep plants back and forth, making it easier for the limited shop staff.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING US MAKE ROOM IN THE GREEN HOUSE :) See you soon for our later in May plant sale! :)

11/23/2023

*Not a “holiday” post, but here to show gratitude none-the-less.
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Shown:
1: Lisa and Arthur the goose 🤍
2: Oak and Turnip
3: Dahlias, our ’s bread and butter.
4: Robyn w baby goat and Lisa with baby chick! 🫶🏽
5: Great niece Suzie and friend w toy baby pigs!
6: Lisa and Arthur playing in a puddle with a friend.
7: Lisa and Katherine with a Southside School bus load of kiddos!
8: Pizza Crew circa 2016 🍕
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We know that there is a lot of fear in the world, enormous amounts of pain, horrific histories and yet all we can do is be grateful for the things that we do have, the memories we’ve banked and the idea of ENOUGH.
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11/20/2023

Our daughter brand, The Foundry Home Goods, is the brainchild of our farm matriarch Lisa’s daughter — > Anna. And to us, here at the farm, TFHG is also, sort of, a mother brand, in-that Anna has been inspiring Lisa++ with her business prowess for over a decade.
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Anna opened her dreamy paradise to provide utilitarian yet beautiful products that make domesticity feel luxurious and worthy of doing well. Her store contains things only made with the highest ethical standards, if a product is harmful for you, the producer or the planet you can be sure not to find it at TFHG.
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Right now our🤍 ‘daughter’ 🤍needs your assistance! Please follow because TFHG’s main account is currently a captive for ransom. We kid not. And during this, the most important season for a small business, it is no joke how important each platform can be to a business. A lot of you already know our Anna and TFHG so you’ll be glad to know of this update for those new to her store, it’s right off of St. Anthony Main!
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Each and every dollar you spend this season we hope you are spending from the perspective of a Two Pony Person. I know deep down that all of us want what is good for the collective. is not just a slogan but it is the investment that allows your neighbors to thrive and in turn the whole neighborhood thrives.
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Spending at big box stores where products have outsourced their labor to nations with human rights violations isn’t up-to-par with who we know you all to be. Spending your hard earned money to support consumption without standards is not what we are doing in 2023 or 2024. So even though we have ended an era at our farm we want you to know that Two Pony People prevail and we aren’t going any where. The farms work will continue and we will be here to continue to remind you all who you are and what you care about. More important than a ‘like’ or a ‘follow’ this season is a dollar spent; This holiday season show up for your community however you can! We thank you and love you all!
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10/18/2023

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It was incredibly delicious and not at all scary to put ’s kraut on our pizzas this weekend! Ferments can be whacky but spooky season is the perfect time to bravely bring some new things into the kitchen- especially such a nourishing batch of products from our neighbors in Wisconsin. Viroqua to be exact!
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We are proud to know this small company and support their mission to provide healthful fermented food and supporting farmers by sourcing their b-grade produce and “upcycling” it- if you will. If you see their stuff at or or wherever definitely give ‘em a try. Your gut will thank you later!
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Two Pony Gardens has routinely worked with local partners to bring amazing pizza recipes to you at our events for almost two decades now. Keep following along to find out how we’ll live-on past our ‘End of an Era’ season. It is our goal to continue to support our regional food system in our own unique ways.
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02/13/2023

02/07/2023

We are now taking applications for Farm Camp 2023! link below in comments :)⁣⁣⁣⁣

02/07/2023

Our beautiful, hardworking beasts were up north this weekend pulling their weight in ice. What an amazing tradition that we are so lucky to be a part of!

Happy horses.

02/07/2023

https://www.twoponygardens.com/camp-two-pony.html

Two Pony Gardens Farm Camp 2023 | Now Taking Applications

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It is with many emotions that we announce -- ​ SUMMER 2023 is the { END OF AN ERA } here at Two Pony Gardens After dedicating the better part of the last decade to Two...

10/19/2022

Another amazing photo from the shoot - Lisa and the dahlias, what Two Pony magic is made of.

10/18/2022

came to visit us a few weeks ago, to see how we do mornings - You can read up about the visit in the ‘Morning Mug’ section of their website! 📷 Photo courtesy of their team.

10/15/2022

Next Friday and Sunday are the last opportunities for fun in 2022! Tomato sauce, sausage and even a dessert pizza option! Check the website.

10/03/2022

😍🥰Took this shot over the farm house driveway yesterday morning as we were lighting the brick oven around 7AM. Thankful doesn’t describe how we feel to be Two Pony People doing the work of stewardship and land, human connection awareness work. Because in a sense that is the work we do, as we grow food, as we host, as we teach, as we learn. Thoughts around a sunset, our hope is that on this fall Monday you can look at your life’s work with hearts in your eyes.

10/01/2022

Farm cat taking a cat nap in a farm truck.

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09/26/2022

When cooking with the freshest food, hand picked the morning of use, in our outdoor brick-oven— you can count on deliciousness; although our flavors and recipes change with the season our standards remain the same.
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From the outside, at times, we might look like it but we are not a pizza restaurant. First and foremost we steward the land, we farm with Mother Nature to feed our community and we invite humans to come share in the glory of the land we are in community with here in the west metro area of . We are thankful for the opportunity our earth gives us to be surrounded by such a wonderful group of Two Pony People! Reservations for Oct 1/2 & 8/9 on the website now! ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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09/20/2022

It is officially still summer for another few days but the moody, autumnal colors are in season and all the rage at TPG!

09/17/2022

We might be sold out for this weekend but reservations for Oct 1/2 are on sale now! We are going to get crazy and out apples on a pizza! 🍎🍕🥰✌🏽💛

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09/14/2022

The garage at the farm gets used for a lot of things but storing garlic is one of the best uses we can think of! It takes a significant amount of garlic to make all of the pizza sauce and pesto that you Two Pony Pizza Lovers eat. We have been growing our own for two seasons now and we are excited to keep developing a four part rotation in our ‘Tailgater’s Meadow’ field. Small farming is about creating a regional farm system that nourishes, we are so lucky to be a part of that. #⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

09/12/2022

Fall vibes are coming in strong but we hope that hangs around for a few more weeks so we can keep bringing these beauties to for you to bring home! ⁣⁣⁣
We are so appreciative of the different ways people support our small farm! Being in community with all of you through this platform, farming, our mini CSA concept with TFHG, Farm Camp and Pizza Events means the world to us! Seasonality means that we don’t see each other all the time but the loyalty and faith you have all shown us is what brings us back every year despite the many uphill battles of small scale organic and stewardship minded agriculture. ⁣⁣
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09/11/2022

Pizza weekends are a lot of work that is incredibly worth it; we love sharing what we do with our Two Pony Pizza Loving People! ⁣Small farms fed people, that is the reality of our food system. We grow food, we cook pizzas, we invite you to come eat on the farm sometimes! Check out twoponygardens.com to see upcoming reservations opportunities or to get on our email list! 🍕🍕🍕💛🍅✌🏽⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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09/02/2022

Flowers, Rocket and the Moon… these are a few of our favorite things.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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08/06/2022

Having kids on the farm is a labor of true love and a seed of connection to the land that we are honored to be able to plant. Thank you so much to all of the Two Pony families, we could not do what we love without your support. Kiddos or Camp Two Pony, we love you, we believe in and TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. Six three day camps of 2022 are done and in the books! DM us your email address to be put on a list for 2023 interested families!

08/03/2022

We’ve been quieter than normal, a lot quieter. Eerie right? Our apologies, you guys didn’t do anything wrong. We didn’t intentionally abandon our sharing journey but instead this seasons endless struggles have forced us to juggle too many things for this platform to make our list. We took the long days of problem mitigation to really lean in, let life and refocus. Our Two Pony mission is not ONE thing, our place in the community is not simply to grow tomatoes or provide a “reliable service” that looks the same every year. We are a farm and that is inherently complicated.
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We are all nature, and nature adapts.
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After forging through the trials of nutrient deficient starts, an herbicide drift issue, a fungal disease, death, bad weather, hail and any number of additional mundane things we are exhausted but not defeated.
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There is a very real possibility that we won’t have huge harvests to heap upon Farm Stand this year. Are we disappointed? Yes. Are we bad farmers? Maybe 🤷🏼‍♀️ but becoming better and better ESPECIALLY (it turns out) during years full of real struggle. Is it possible we won’t open the farm stand this season? Yes. Is that ok? Of course. We are not one thing. This is an amazing opportunity for us to support other local farmers, to spread the word about them to our Two Pony People. Stay tuned for how we are going to do that!
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Lastly, we just want to share the most amazing lesson we’ve learned this spring. Plants are resilient and thus WE are resilient. We encourage you to take a moment to touch your feet to the earth and meditate on that last sentence.
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Thanks for being here!

07/21/2022

Meet Devy and Paige

Our Fantastic Farm Hand and our Camp Two Pony Director; these two are the foundation of our summer squad and we are so thankful to have them on the team!

Both enthusiastic about the outdoors, about climate action, about the power of well balanced ecosystems, about . With their help we are able to have a fully immersive camp experience for our 7-11 year old friends while also managing the rest of the farm. They are supporting our regional food system in this small way. By building a team we ensure that each of us, who steward this land are sustained through collaboration and collective efforts.

06/21/2022

We beat the heat on the first day of Camp Two Pony with lots of hydration, some time running through the sprinkler and a super long story time with Camp Director Paige!

06/10/2022

Eggs✅ Shiitakes✅ Basil✅ Chives✅ Bread❎ Avocado❎ 4/6 lunch ingredients fresh from the farm!

05/30/2022

Tastes and colors of late spring, early summer. (Disclaimer: never taste/eat daffodils)