The Farm on 7th

09/28/2025

FALL PLANT SALE ADVANCE ORDERS AVAILABLE THROUGH 10/4/25 | WHAT IS A SOIL BLOCK?
A reminder the Fall Plant Sale preorder form is open for advance orders through Saturday, October 4th. Unlike the Spring plant sale, plants for Fall/Winter are grown according to customers' advance orders. As plants become ready, we will contact customers about picking up their order. After 10/4/25, orders placed online will be based on remaining inventory.

We are offering the following plant starts: Beets, bok choy, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, cilantro, collards (just added!), garlic, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, green onions, bulbing onions, strawberry, sugar snap peas, radish and Swiss chard.

We also wanted to share some information about soil blocks since we realized some people won’t know what we're referring to when we say we are selling plants in "soil blocks" this year. Watch the first 4 minutes of this short video to learn a little about them.
https://youtu.be/PEvKpxQWbDo?si=FU3K3daEVGOVsonl

Since we had a few questions about growing, we wanted to let you know instruction sheets will be provided for orders of onion starts, garlic seed and bare root strawberry plants. Greg will also be around on pick-up days for those of you with questions about any of the plants you are purchasing.

2025 Fall Plant Sale Preorder: https://form.jotform.com/240058795813160
2025 Bare Root Strawberry Preorder Form: https://form.jotform.com/203466202164144

09/21/2025

FALL PLANT SALE PREORDER NOW AVAILABLE
In keeping with the idea of selling the right plants to you at the right time of the year, we are doing a Fall plant sale once again using a preorder process.

This year, we are selling ALL plants - except strawberries, onion starts and garlic seed - in soil blocks (multiples of five) as we have found soil blocks to produce superior quality starts.

Onion starts are sold in bundles of approximately 50. We sell the correct type of onions for Southern California (short day and intermediate day varieties) that will produce large onion bulbs in late Spring/early Summer.

Garlic seed is sold by the pound.

To more accurately gauge how much to plant, we are requesting preorders be placed by October 4th, with starts available roughly 6 to 8 weeks from the date you place your order.

Timing will vary depending on the plant and we will contact you with your options as plants become available.

Onion starts will be available around November/December.

Bare root Fronteras strawberry plants will be available in late October.

2025 Fall Plant Sale Preorder
https://form.jotform.com/240058795813160

2025 Bare Root Strawberry Preorder Form
https://form.jotform.com/203466202164144

09/02/2025

Here are photos from another customer who won First and Second Place this year for her insanely large onions. (She grew these from the starts we sold last December.) 3 lbs, 7.5 oz and 3 lbs, 1.2 oz. And she told us she had one that was even larger that she'd given away!

We hope others will consider entering into next year's Norco Fair Community competition. (Entries for homegrown fruits & vegetables are free! 🍉🍅🍆🥒🌶🫑🧄🧅🍠)

A huge thank you to the Norco Fair volunteers! We know this takes a huge amount of work and the volunteers are AWESOME! ❤️💚

07/23/2025

Hi all! I know this is odd to post a message relating to something other than gardening/farming, but since this was an unusual request that came our way and I know there are lots of horse keepers and horse lovers in this area I wanted to share the request as far and wide as we can.

Melissa from CIEE, a nonprofit that places international high school exchange students with volunteer host families across the U.S., reached out to see if we might help them find a welcoming California home for Josefine, a 15-year-old student from Germany arriving this August for the 2025–26 school year.

Melissa notes Josefine is a bright, caring teen who lives and breathes horses. She’s been riding since she was little, attends riding school weekly, and spends most of her free time at the stable. Her dream is to live with a host family where she can continue her connection to horses while experiencing everyday life in the U.S. She would thrive with a family involved in horse care, riding, 4-H, FFA, or farm life in general.

Please send us a direct message if you'd like more details.

06/10/2025

“If you are not killing a few plants hither and thither, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener. You see our beautiful tables of plants in the front. Believe me, I kill more than a few during each growing season! The important thing is that we grow and become a little better each year." -Greg, Farm on 7th

Thanks for another year of memories! What a privilege to share the garden experience with so many of you. We also appreciate the privilege of hearing the joyous laughter and seeing the ear-to-ear grins of the children (and seniors too!) when they see and hand feed the ducks and ducklings.

We hope you enjoy this gardening season! Happy gardening from the Farm on 7th!

06/10/2025

05/21/2025

Just 3 weeks left for this year's Home Food Production Spring Plant Sale! Sweet potatoes (orange, purple and white) are finally ready for those of you who have been waiting. :-)

We're open Thursday, Friday & Saturday from 9AM to 6PM through June 7th.

Prices: 4" pots - $3 | 6-pack container - $6 | 1 gallon - $6

A reminder we encourage recycling so you may want to bring a box/container to take your plants home. We also will happily take any pots you would like to return once you’ve gotten your plants in the ground (including from other nurseries)!

Learn more: https://www.farmon7th.com/plant-catalog

05/02/2025

FREE/GRATIS: EAT! Small-Farm Apprenticeship Program/Programa de Aprendizaje de Pequeñas Granjas
**START THE PROGRAM AT ANY TIME DURING THE YEAR!**
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[ENGLISH] EAT! Small-Farm Apprenticeship Program | Mondays and Wednesdays 7:00-9:00 pm https://bit.ly/2025-EAT-Program

[ESPAÑOL] EAT! Programa de Aprendizaje de Pequeñas Granjas | Martes y Viernes 5:30-7:30 pm https://bit.ly/3YlWhB4

04/29/2025

The EAT Small Farm Apprenticeship program is available in Spanish on Tuesday and Friday nights from 5:30-7:30 pm. Join any time during the year! Contact Areli for more information [email protected]. Signup: https://bit.ly/3YlWhB4

03/31/2025

OPENING WEEKEND (APRIL 3-5)
It’s almost here! We’re busily preparing for the opening weekend of this year’s Home Food Production Spring Plant Sale which starts this Thursday, April 3rd. The sale will run through June 7th every Thursday, Friday & Saturday from 9AM to 6PM.

For those of you who may be first timers, we sell open-pollinated, heirloom and premium hybrid plants that are all grown here in Norco. We have 140+ varieties of plants available along with free advice and instruction to help with success in your gardening pursuits.

We encourage recycling so you may want to bring a box/container to take your plants home. We also will happily take any pots you would like to return once you’ve gotten your plants in the ground (including from other nurseries).

Click the link for the online catalog where you will also find a printable shopping list and a PDF version of the catalog. (Catalog is for reference only - availability is dependent on weather conditions): https://www.farmon7th.com/plant-catalog

We look forward to seeing everyone!

03/20/2025

We received a question about whether any of the plants can be grown in pots, which reminded us it's a good time to do a re-post of last year's container garden test video!

We had quite a successful garden and all the plants shown in the video are available again this year. The containers are all 10-gallon fabric pots which breathe and help make the soil less hot in the summer heat.

Different pot types can be used, but you should use something light colored to reduce the impact of the sun on heating the container and the soil.

Regardless of what type of container you use, some type of reservoir is required to hold water since you don’t ever want the plant to be stressed for water. As long as the reservoir does not run dry, the plant will be able to wick up water from there.

Remember, it’s important to regularly fertilize in container gardens for good production.

Yes! It is possible to have a complete garden in containers.The tables from our 2024 Home Food Production Spring Plant Sale became the platform for our conta...

03/12/2025

The 2025 online catalog is now ready to review! We’ll do some highlights in future posts but for now we invite you to review what we’ve been up to since December! We’ve added several new varieties of the “Everleaf” basil series (Genovese, Lemon and Thai Towers), Roselle Hibiscus and some new peppers along with a few other new items. We look forward to seeing everyone in April!
https://www.farmon7th.com/plant-catalog