A small urban farm in Draper, Utah. We grow a variety of produce using low-till organic methods.
Red-leaf vegetable amaranth, aka Red Callaloo. Not only is it beautiful but it’s also a superfood that thrives in the heat - just like all the pigw**d (also an amaranth) that takes over your garden as a w**d in the summer.
I have a small amount of this available as part of our spring plant sale - but it’s exceptionally easy to grow from seed if you prefer! It’s great as a spinach substitute for when the weather gets hot.
Friends and neighbors, garden starts are now available for ordering on our website. Hope you’ll swing on by and reserve some seedlings for your very own modern-day victory garden.
Order any time until May 1st to reserve your plants, and we’ll continue to grow them out to be ready for pickup on May 4th (Star Wars Day!). Pickups will also be available the following Saturday, May 11th, at the farm in Draper.
Daikon radish fan? These beauties are incredible this time of year. So much crispy crunch, with nary a hint of the typical radish spice. I’ll have them Saturday at the final of the year.
These glowing cabbages are just one of the purple things we’ll have for you at the opening day of the winter market tomorrow.
We’ll also have plenty of green things, orange things, and other shades of vegetables, too. The spinach harvest this week is especially beautiful, and I’m also delighted to have plenty of winter squash and sweet potatoes for your autumn feasts.
The winter market has moved a block south this year, still in the Gateway at 110 South Rio Grande Street. Hope to see you there tomorrow, 10-1. You’ll find us at the first spot on the left as you enter.
The final summer is tomorrow! Despite it nearing the end of October, our little farm is bursting at the seams with vegetables, and I’ll bring as much as I can fit down to Pioneer Park for one last hurrah.
We’ll have piles of root vegetables, mountains of leafy greens, four or five types of kale, lettuce, bok choy, microgreens, quite a few apples, plenty of cabbages, and some other stuff I can’t even remember.
Last chance for local bounty! (For a few weeks at least, then I’ll be making this exact same post about the SLC Winter Market.)
Tomorrow is the much-hyped solar eclipse, and that means that end times are upon us.
That’s right, end times for the farmers market season! Saturday is the penultimate summer market, and Sunday will be the final Sunday market for the year!
Come on out and stock up! No need to put on your sun block, the moon will take care of that for us. We’re bringing everything we can, I’m concerned I might break the axles of my poor market trailer.
We’ll have tons of cabbage, kohlrabi, fennel, arugula, salad mix, lettuce heads, bok choy, microgreens, a huge pile of carrots, turnips, and radishes, never-sprayed apples, the last of the tomatoes and cucumbers, and more.
I set up the self-serve (self-help?) farm stand this morning, with some of the bonkers numbers of tomatoes from this week. Also microgreens, pears, and cucumbers. Come on by 12820 Fort street in Draper and take home some of the tomato bounty. Please?
You may have misheard me when you thought that I said I was only going to the Draper Saturday market this weekend.
What I actually said was, I’m going to pick a whole nother mess of pickling cucumbers and meet you at tomorrow.
They’re much smaller this picking so if you prefer petite pickles, come on down tomorrow 9-1 and get a load of them.
We’ll also have plentiful microgreens, spinach , kale, peaches, and more.
PSA - We have always used culinary/treated water to dunk/cool/rinse greens after harvest. (Technically, we’re not allowed to “wash” veggies without a commercial and inspected facility, so we don’t claim to wash anything and insist that you wash at home before eating).
However, with recent reports of E. Coli in Lehi secondary water (not in Draper’s water, so we remain unaffected), we’ll start to add a peroxyacetic acid disinfectant to our culinary rinse water for vegetables and greens. This is an industry-standard organic-allowed disinfectant that kills pathogens and also as a side effect increases shelf life of most vegetables.
But, you should continue to rinse all your farmers market purchases before consumption - as far as I’m aware no small farms in Utah sell produce that is washed-and-ready-to-eat.
I took the insect netting off one of our covered peach trees and we harvested a beautiful batch never-sprayed-with-anything juicy, sweet peaches. Naturally the tag fell off the tree so I’m not entirely sure what variety these are. But they’re pretty tasty!
I’ll have these along with plenty other goodies this weekend - we’ll only be at the Draper Market this weekend. I’ve been needing a break and a weekend with only 1 quiet market might be as close as I get to a weekend off this season. I hope you’ll come and see us Saturday 9-1 at the Ballard Arena in Draper. This will probably be our last time attending the Draper Market this season.
The following weekend is shaping up to be a big harvest so we’ll be back at our regular downtown market and Wheeler Farm then.
Farmily, warm up your pickle jars and dig out granny’s secret recipe - the pickling cucumbers are here.
We also have plenty of arugula, spicy salad mix, Roma/paste tomatoes, heirlooms, lettuce, tons of microgreens, carrots, salad turnips, collard greens, kale, and much more.
Find us and these cucumbers this weekend:
Saturday .utah 9-1
Sunday 9-1
I’m fortunate for this opportunity to plant a round of crops for late fall and winter in this newly constructed 24x96 high tunnel. My generous neighbor near the mouth of Little Cottwood Canyon just built this tunnel and I think he was so tired of the project after completing it that he was eager to have me deal with it for a while. He disappeared to Alaska and handed me the keys! I’ll fill it up with carrots, beets, and kale for the winter market.
Say hello to Tokyo Bekana - a very mild and vibrant Asian green - buttery leaves with a crunchy midrib. It’s like Napa cabbage, lettuce, and bok choy all at the same time. Great raw in salad, as a lettuce substitute, or as a cooked green.
Last week I had it bagged, this week we have bunches of full-grown, and the stem is crunchy and juicy - come try some this weekend, we’ll have a mountain of it!
Also on the fresh sheet for this weekend: hundreds of pounds of heirloom and cherry tomatoes, salad mix, cucumbers, shish*to peppers, some early apples, potatoes, a stack of arugula, an even bigger stack of spinach, and the biggest stack ever of carrots - and more!
Find us:
Saturday at Pioneer Park 8-2 for the
Sunday at Wheeler Farm 9-1
I’m happy with this addition to the farm infrastructure - this refrigerated trailer will enable me to keep the veggies at their best on scorching 🥵 market days.
Oops, I did it again. Another couple hundred pounds of big, juicy heirlooms harvested. These tomatoes have really turned it up to 11 in the past week. Anticipating that I’ll harvest this much again tomorrow, we’re not going to hold these for weekend markets. I’ll be headed over the mighty Wasatch range tomorrow and will have these heirlooms, cherry tomatoes, garlic, and cucumbers at the . Wednesday, 11-5 at the Canyons lower parking lot (right off Rt. 224). See you there! I promise that it will be 15 degrees cooler than SLC.
Farmily - without exaggeration or hyperbole, we have several hundred pounds of big & beautiful heirloom tomatoes coming to markets this weekend. All the tomatoes seem to have turned on at once and we’ve been picking every day this week. Come see us and take home these beauties. Saturday at 8-2, Sunday at 9-1. It’s not even going to be hot, only 105 or so.
Where we’ll be this weekend:
Saturday Pioneer Park 8-2
Sunday 9-1
These “Unagi” variety of Japanese cucumbers are something special! Thin and tender skin, sweet and crisp flesh, and tiny seeds. Plus, our good old dog of yesteryear was named Unagi, so they’re doubly special - he probably would have liked them too! First harvest of cucumbers for tomorrow at the .
We also have stacks of fresh onions, celery, salad mix, lettuce, beets, basil, herbs, fennel, kohlrabi, microgreens, and much more.
Hope to see you at the markets!
Where to find us this weekend!
Saturday (tomorrow): shiny new market alert! The brand spankin’ new Draper Farmer’s Market .utah opens tomorrow, and we’ll be there for our new local neighborhood market. Andy Ballard Arena (equestrian center) from 9-1. Hope to see all of our Draper neighbors there! No downtown for us this weekend, sorry!
Sunday: Wheeler Farm Market in our usual spot. Sunday 9-1 at Wheeler Park in Murray.
What we’re bringing: piles of the regular run-of-the-mill veggies like kohlrabi, garlic scapes, bulb fennel, and green sorrel. Also some exotic and delicious items that you may not have heard of before: kale, green onions, and - get this - lettuce! Always grown organically with great care right here in Draper.
Farm friends! We’re planning to be at tomorrow but will probably skip Wheeler Farm on Sunday for kid birthday reasons.
Please come on down and see us at the northwest side of Pioneer Park, tomorrow 8-2. We have a mountain of goodies for you, including:
Fragrant baby fennel, cabbage, kohlrabi, celery, salad mix, giant romaine lettuces, spinach, kale, basil, arugula, scallions and scapes, radishes, chard, sweet salad turnips - are you still reading? And more!
Draper neighbors, take a peek out your window - do you know what that means? These cozy and warm leeks know what it means: it’s gardening season!
Our annual plant sale is ON. Online pre-orders are available now, and we’ll have a pop-up plant sale the first two Saturdays in May at the farm. We’ll set up out front, come rain or…flood. www.finetilth.farm.
Cold and rainy, seems like a great time to harvest for the first weekend of the Winter Market! Come see us this Saturday from 10-2 at the Gateway- we’ll be bringing a slew of early winter goodies, fresh from the garden - including broccoli, radicchio, plenty of carrots, radish, and turnips, various mild mustards such as mizuna and Tokyo Bekana, microgreens, lettuce, and a comically huge pile of spinach. See you there!
Hey kid, come over here and pose holding this kohlrabi. If this kid doesn’t discover how delicious kohlrabi is before the weekend, we’ll have it for you at the markets.
Happy to be bringing spinach back to markets after a heat hiatus. Spinach won’t germinate in the summer heat but we took advantage of the brief cool spell a few weeks ago to get some planted - it looks great! tomorrow and market Sunday. See you there, Popeye.
30 pounds of Shish*to peppers headed to and Sunday market. It took 3 hours to pick this beautiful stash!
My dad has grown a row of to***co every year for 40 years back East, just because it’s such a beautiful plant. Thought I’d keep the tradition alive out here on the frontier.
Evening sunflower pick for Sunday Market tomorrow. See you there 9-1!
Love
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“There's the wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
And the love of a staunch true man,
And the love of a baby that's unafraid-
All have existed since time began.
But the most wonderful love, the Love of all loves,
Even greater than the love for Mother,
Is the infinite, tenderest, passionate love
Of one dead drunk for another.”
Clearly this poet never pulled carrots from the garden - because intertwined carrots is the true greatest love. And we’ll have them in plentiful supply this weekend at the on Saturday and the Sunday Market
This week we have limited amounts of this Kamonasu, or Kamo eggplant - “the queen of eggplants”. This highly regarded variety from Kyoto, Japan is prized for its creamy, dense flesh and sweet flavor. Git yerself some this Sunday at the Sunday Market.
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Draper-neighbors-who-don’t-like-to-go-to-the-downtown-market (most of you?) - rejoice! This Saturday we will be at the new @sandycityfarmersmarket, at the amphitheater/splash pad/senior center. Just 5 minutes from the farm, right up 13th east! Come see Whitney there from 9-1. We’ll also be at our regular digs at the @slcfarmersmarket on Saturday and @wheelerhistoricfarm on Sunday, with heaps upon heaps of fresh, healthy, lovingly grown goodies. As always, come early for easy parking and best selection!
POV, pea picking party. Piles of pretty peas picked, plucked, portioned, and prepared to be ported to Pioneer Park, hope you come purchase and proceed to partake in these pretty petite peas! Phew! @slcfarmersmarket
Oops, we did it again! Another massive pile of these gorgeous rainbow carrots headed to the Wheeler Sunday Market. We have twice as many as last week so I’m hopeful they’ll last longer than 30 minutes! We’ll also have a ton of greens, microgreens, and more. See you Sunday 9-1! We won’t be setting up the farm stand here in Draper on Saturday - it’s calling for rain and if I get wet I’ll melt!
Here we go again! This Sunday is the start of our summer market season, and we’ve been as busy as a beaver in a beehive harvesting, rinsing, and packaging heaps of garden goodies. Find us in our usual spot at the first Wheeler Farm Market of the season, this Sunday from 9-1. We’re bringing more carrots than we’ve ever brought to any market, scores of gigantic butter lettuce heads, salad mix, kales, turnips, radishes, and more. But wait, there’s more - we have so much stuff that we’ll also be setting up in front of the farm in Draper on Saturday (tomorrow) morning, starting at 9. Neighbors, hope you come on over - 12820 South Fort Street. We will only be doing a farm stand in Draper for a couple of weekends until the Salt Lake City market starts on June 1st. Hope to see you tomorrow or Sunday so I can share some of these lovingly grown veggies with you!
Peas look good! Re: tomorrow - we will be out on Fort Street with the last of our plants starting at 9. No produce this week but if you need a couple extra tomatoes or peppers, stop on by!
I’m so tired of shuffling these hundreds of trays of plants around, I need you all to come get them out of my way and take them home! Plant sale and pre-order pickup starts tomorrow at 9! We’ll stay out until about two, so come anytime to get your order. Didn’t pre-order? Not to worry, we have hundreds of extra plants and boxes for you to tote them home in. Now the bad news: you won’t want to plant out your warm weather plants (tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, basil) until this forecast cold storm passes. Keep them safe and warm until middle of next week! In addition to plants, we’ll have plenty of spring greens, so even if you don’t have space or inclination to garden, I hope you’ll come out to the farm stand and get some fresh spring greens!
Can you tell which lettuce was planted over top of where I removed a very large willow tree last November? The soil here is non-existent, mostly just stump grindings. Just a foot away, the same lettuce is thriving. I’ll get it fixed in a year or two.
I had clouds of these tiny aphid-attacking wasps last year when they showed up on their own and saved a couple crops of lettuce. They haven’t arrived yet this year so I’m trying to jump-start the bio warfare by introducing them into the greenhouse. Go get ‘em, little friends!
Red-leaf vegetable amaranth, aka Red Callaloo. Not only is it beautiful but it’s also a superfood that thrives in the heat - just like all the pigweed (also an amaranth) that takes over your garden as a weed in the summer. I have a small amount of this available as part of our spring plant sale - but it’s exceptionally easy to grow from seed if you prefer! It’s great as a spinach substitute for when the weather gets hot.
We have a pile of early plants ready to go. Lettuces and brassicas (kales, cabbage, cauliflower, etc.) If you want to get a jump on your garden before our May 4 plant sale, shoot me a message here and you can stop by to grab some. Or, I’ll have these at the @slcfarmersmarket for the next (and final) two Saturdays of the winter market. All of these are also available for preorders for our May 4 plant sale if you’re like me and just not quite ready yet.
Nice haul of of these very sweet overwintered carrots! We will bring these to the @slcfarmersmarket this Saturday, along with a few greens. Hope to see you there!
Gearing up for a spring garden seedling sale on the first two Saturdays in May. Website pre-orders will open soon! As always, we’re limited in how much we can offer by our small space, but this year I should have more variety and plants than ever. Get those garden spots ready and we will have the plants for you to fill them with in a few short weeks!
What a treat to stay warm and dry while preparing these amazing greens for market in our mostly-completed new greenhouse/farm command center. We’ll see you tomorrow at the @slcfarmersmarket 10-2, or come find us Sunday at the @wheelerhistoricfarm Winter Market inside the education center at Wheeler Farm.
We won’t be at the @slcfarmersmarket tomorrow, because Krampus brought us this large pile of metal to kick off our holiday season, and we want to take time to enjoy it. This is pile of metal destined to be our new heated seed starting, winter veggie washing, and early tomato greenhouse. We plan to be back with plenty of vegetables next weekend, the 16th!
No markets for us this weekend, I’m taking my first weekend off of the season. Except not really, I’ll have the self serve stand set up in Draper tomorrow morning at 12820 South Fort Street. Stop by for microgreens, cucumbers, and the last tomatoes. I’ll be spending the day tearing out all of our tomato plants and hauling them off to someplace peaceful and quiet where they can finally rest. So long tomatoes, and thank you!
I set up the self-serve (self-help?) farm stand this morning, with some of the bonkers numbers of tomatoes from this week. Also microgreens, pears, and cucumbers. Come on by 12820 Fort street in Draper and take home some of the tomato bounty. Please?
I reeeeeally wanted to take the whole weekend off from markets but the tomatoes must have heard me say so - because they went bonkers this week. We’ve harvested 500 pounds of heirloom and cherry tomatoes and will have them all for you tomorrow at the @slcfarmersmarket. It’s going to be a glorious first day of autumn! We’ll also have a pile of chard, grapes, microgreens, kale, carrots, and - you guessed it, more cucumbers than a pickle factory. Hope to see you out tomorrow morning! It’ll be coat weather and I’m pretty excited about that.
This green butter lettuce has really held up in the heat where many lettuce varieties struggle. Of course, I’ve pampered it with thrice daily mistings and shade. Each one also has a name and its own unique personality. What, you don’t do that with your lettuces? This weekend we’ll only be at the @slcfarmersmarket, Pioneer Park Saturday 8-2. Me and my lettuce friends will see you there.
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