Feed-Me Farms

21/08/2023

The heirloom tomatoes are prolific these days!

If you would like to try out HOPKINS GROWN veggie varieties you can't find in the grocery store, I'm offering FREE DELIVERY to Hopkins residents. Order a la carte from the online farm store at www.feedmefarms.co

- Farmer Jake

15/08/2023

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
our online farm store is ready for orders. Order whatever you want from our inventory, pickup Tuesdays in Hopkins, or $10 delivery fee... EXCEPT Hopkins residents get free delivery!

The next two months are PRIME TIME for the best garden flavors we wait patiently for all season. Order at your own conceive and try our hyperlocal, chemical free fresh veggies.

Shop for your own local veggies, online! Pickup orders will be fulfilled Tuesdays 4:30-6:30 at our Hopkins garden at 1609 Mainstreet. free delivery in Hopkins $10 delivery fee outside of Hopkins

26/05/2023

ANNOUNCEMENT:

YARD TO FARM COURSE
HOPKINS
3 WEEKEND MORNINGS 6/4, 6/10, 6/17

Only $20 a session or $50 for all three. Learn everything you need to know to turn your yard into a mini-farm, with ecology and production in mind.

Urban Farm

23/04/2023

Happy Earth Day!
Do you give a hoot about the environment? What about yourself? Do you eat food? If so, you may be a perfect candidate for our veggie box subscription program! Support your health, your carbon footprint, and local business by signing up (AND SAVING) on groceries this year with a subscription to Feed Me Farms! www.feedmefarms.co

12/04/2023

You may have noticed that we skipped Spring and went straight to Summer today--- but don't worry because I created my own Spring indoors and all these green babies can't wait to see the real sun and soil soon!

What's your favorite crop you look forward to this season?!

29/03/2023

Sign up today to secure your weekly (or bi-weekly) veggie box!
www.feedmefarms.co

31/01/2023

Spring is just around the corner!
We are going ALL IN this season to make sure our suburban-farmed veggies make it directly from our neighborhood gardens to our neighbor's refrigerators (and tummies)!

No schlepping to the farmers market across town. CONTACTLESS DELIVERY is available this season AND we are expanding our Veggie Box (CSA) program to include 30 weeks of farm fresh goodness (20 weeks of produce and 10 weeks of pizzas, soups, pestos, and more!)

Payment plans, scholarships, delivery, donation options and PIZZAS are some of our big additions this season. Take a look below and sign up now to lock in your spot!

Feed-Me Farms is a suburban farm located in the Western Suburbs of Minneapolis. The mission of Feed-Me Farms is to eliminate the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides on lawns by converting...

03/11/2022

Come eat at Smile Tea Bar 811 Mainstreet tonight from 7-9!
$22/pie
$4/ slice
Multiple combos available
Cash/ card/ or pre order by texting Farmer Jake at 612-356-2411

26/10/2022

Pizza tonight Flying Dutchman Spirits in EP!
5- 10pm

20/10/2022

PIZZA IS BACK! TONIGHT (Thursday) at 811 Mainstreet back patio Smile Tea Bar !!
7-9pm

$4/ slice or $22/pie.

Text ordering available!

612-365-2411

19/10/2022

PIZZA from 5-10 at Flying Dutchman Spirits

Come eat and drink locally tonight!

14/10/2022

Hot pizza! 430- sold out! Come thru for!

09/10/2022

These yellow carrots are going to be an X chromosome for Halloween. (Great couples costume idea.)

07/10/2022

A pre-Halloween spooky post, featuring the scariest rainbow I can think of: One made of peppers so hot they'd melt my face off from an embarrassing distance away. (This is Farmer Emily, obv.) Those orange habaneros look pretty but many of the most dangerous things in the world are like that, aren't they? Blue-ringed octopuses, golden poison dart frog, ostriches, etc.

If you aren't afraid of heat like me, you'll be happy to know that we've started our Great Hot Pepper Harvest. Soon, we'll have some fresh new batches of Minnesota Mean Hot Sauce fermenting!

17/09/2022

It's Farmy Pizza time at Flying Dutchman Spirits Flying Dutchman Spirits on Flying Cloud Dr! Here til we sell out! Get local drinks and local pizza over here folks!

16/09/2022

Farmer Emily here with a hot take on radishes.

I hate radishes and have just been assuming my whole adult life that most other people do too. I bought my first bag of radishes at a farmers market in college because they were pretty and the farmer was cute and I thought buying his radishes was flirting. I took my bag of radishes off to the river and tried to eat them but their weird bitter heat made me feel sick. I felt betrayed by their beauty, and the farmer went off and married someone else (who presumably liked his radishes), and, ten years later, radishes remain the one vegetable I can't stand. (The radishes are being bitter, not me.)

Farmer Jake is a huge fan of radishes. They're easy and fast to plant, they turn over quick, and their profit margin is decent. And he likes the taste so much that he got a big tattoo of a radish on his arm. When I started working for Feed-Me Farms this year, I thought Jake was leaning pretty hard on his love of radishes and I was pretty sure people would get real sick of radishes in their CSA shares real quick, and that the mounds of radishes we brought to market would be ogled for their beauty but never actually purchased because everyone knows they taste like heartbreak and bad wasabi.

I was wrong. People love radishes. I'm bad at conversation so I like to ask people what their least favorite vegetables are, and it's usually beets or hot peppers or something but it's never radishes. I even prompt them, like "Oh you don't like beets? Did you forget that radishes exist? Aren't they awful?" But no, not only are they not awful, they're "great with a little salt", or "excellent in a salad" or "I just love them raw". Whatever, weirdos. I can hold down the radishes-are-the-worst-vegetable-fort all by myself.

Anyway, stop by our market stall at this weekend's Richfield Farmers Market (Sat) or Linden Hills Market (Sun) for some lovely and delicious radishes!
PS Kale is the best vegetable, fight me

15/09/2022

Pizza Thursday is back folks! Come support your friend Farmer Jake and bring a date for hot slices of farmy pizza 7-9pm TONIGHT at in downtown Hopkins. If you're feeling lucky, pop downstairs for the poker game that starts at 8

Convenient pickup and delivery options every day in Hopkins/ Minnetonka. That's right- our locally grown chemical-free, fresh veggies, flowers, and pizzas available in YOUR neighborhood!

05/09/2022

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!

In an effort to make our hyper-local produce available CONVENIENTLY to our friends and neighbors, we are now offering a-la-carte ordering for your own Veggie Boxes, any day of the week. Available for pickup in Hopkins or free delivery in the Avenues!

Simply place your order and we'll contact you to schedule pickup the same day at our Hopkins plot OR delivery for our neighbors in town.

Check out the offerings here:
https://www.feedmefarms.co/shop.html #/

Cheers,
Farmer Jake

Choose from our inventory of freshly harvested, hyper-local, chemical-free veggies. Available for weekly pickup SUNDAYS 5-7PM at our farm plot at 1609 Mainstreet, Hopkins 55343

09/08/2022

Growing carrots is an exercise in patience and hope. Easy enough to admire the gorgeous fronds as the weeks go by, but the farmer wonders - are they growing nice long roots? Are they getting enough water down there? Are there nematodes chewing through them? Are there gophers inhaling everything just below the surface? Will the roots be too hairy or crooked? Will they be R-rated carrots, twisted and vulgar and inappropriate for family-friendly farmers markets and saleable only at adult grocery stores that we don't have proper licensing for?

It's always exciting to dig into the first carrot bed of the year. 🥕

01/08/2022

Farmer Emily and farmcat Zorba here! Zorba moved with me from our previous farm. At 16+ years old and just having had seven teeth out, she usually comes with the introduction of 'retired' farmcat. She's been living the cushy indoor-cat life since our move... but she's still a farmcat at heart. Zorba just had her first visit to our base farm plot. She was on the prowl immediately for grasshoppers, rabbits, and whatever little scurrying thing is nibbling on our beets.

Just our small base plot provides so much for so many: veggies for humans, nectar and pollen for pollinators, beets and kale and lettuce for pests, and pests for the periodic visiting cat. There's more than one reason it's called "Feed-Me Farms"!

21/07/2022

Farmer nerds story: This morning, Farmer Emily stops by the Hopkins farm plot and sees tiny eggplants forming. Delighted, she takes a pic to send to Farmer Jake, assuming he'd be excited too. She leaves. Later that day, Farmer Jake stops by the Hopkins farm plot and sees tiny eggplants forming. Delighted, he takes a pic to send to Farmer Emily, assuming she'd be excited too.

Here are the two eggplant pics that farmers Emily and Jake took, and now we're sharing them with YOU!

(If you can guess who took which pic, we'll name an eggplant after you.)

15/07/2022

Farmer Jake's Escarole White Bean Tomato Soup

Ingredients:
Scallions (six or seven)
Scapes (whatever you've got - pointy ends trimmed off)
Olive oil
Escarole (leaves separated and rinsed)
Two cans tomatoes (diced, pureed, chopped, minced, whatever)
Two cans white beans (Great Northern White Beans work great!)
Two quarts stock (chicken, veggie, etc)
Noodles (Jake used penne)
Big handful shredded parmesan cheese

(Need veggie ingredients? Come visit us at the Linden Hills Farmers Market this Sunday between 10am - 1pm! It's not just anywhere you can get escarole, after all...)

-Take a couple scallions and any leftover scapes you've got. Trim, coarsely chop, and throw them all into a food processor to get all minced up.

-Toss the minced scapes/scallions into a pot on medium, with a little olive oil

-Saute this stuff up. While it's cooking, take your entire escarole head and coarsely chop. Throw that in with the scapes/scallions and saute a bit longer until the leaves wilt down.

-Throw in your canned tomatoes

-Throw in your white beans

-saute everything together for a little longer!

-Add chicken/veg stock

-Simmer for 20 to 30 minutes

-During the last ten minutes, add penne or whatever noodle type

-Throw in a big handful of shredded parm

-Salt/pepper/spices/fresh parsley to taste-Serve with a piece of sourdough toast w/garlic scape butter or radish spread

-Take a photo and post it, and share it with us on social media!

04/07/2022

This radish has seen things...

(potentially its future as delicious radish dip)

If YOU want to see more fresh veggies like this, you can sign up for our Summer CSA Program - half or full shares. Find details on our website at www.feedmefarms.co/shop

18/06/2022

Farmer Emily here, letting you know that the best thing about my mornings is getting to harvest these gorgeous matthiola (stock) flowers! Believe it or not, they smell even better than they look. Tomorrow is our first Flower CSA day: our flower CSA customers will come on over and pick up a fresh scented bouquet. Then they'll be able to wake up to these beauties every morning too!

We still have space for you in our Flower CSA program - visit our website at feedmefarms.co/shop to check out our CSA options. This is a great gift for yourself, for a loved one in a care facility, a favorite teacher, or as the weekly armament you'll need to spread cheer to whomever in your life needs it.

15/06/2022

We are so excited about these colorful veggies!! Rad rads, Swiss chard, gorgeous collard greens and fresh-as-can-be Italian parsley - those are just a few of the veggies we'll be packing up this weekend for our Summer CSA Share members! You can still sign up for a full or half Summer CSA share - just scoot on over to our website at feedmefarms.co/shop to check out the options.

07/06/2022

It's a brocc stock bouq! TIME FOR FACTS: This is a bunch of broccolini and stock (Matthiola) flowers harvested from our high tunnel. Both broccolini and stocks are in the cabbage family. Stock flowers are edible. Stock flowers smell like cloves and taste like radishes. Radishes are also in the cabbage family. This broccolini is super tender and sweet. Broccolini, stocks, and radishes (and more) are all going into next weekend's summer/flower CSA shares.

Last fact: There's still time to sign up for summer and/or flower shares!

Visit our website to learn more and sign up today: https://www.feedmefarms.co/shop

04/06/2022

Thank you, ! This week, 19 energetic, hard-working, question-asking, up-for-anything students from Minnetonka High School's VANTAGE program came to Feed-Me Farms to rescue (up-pot) just about 400 little tomato, pepper, and basil plants. What would have taken us several hours took this team maybe 20 minutes. It was amazing to see, and we feel so grateful that the Vantage team has made Feed-Me Farms a regular part of their annual activities. They've made a huge difference for us and we can't wait to see them again this fall!

26/05/2022

The latest and best from Farmer Jake: beautiful bags of purple mizuna! Our spring CSA members will receive this gorgeous veggie in their boxes this week. If you’re feeling green (or purple) with jealousy, we still have space in our summer CSA and flower CSA programs - there’s still time for you to get in on the veggie/flower action!

Check out our CSA options on our website here: https://www.feedmefarms.co/shop

23/05/2022

Do y'all know Steph from LTD? She's one of our happy Spring CSA customers!

This is Spring CSA week 2 and she's got a few bags of shoots and microgreens, some bok choi, adorable head lettuce, and a bundle of broccolini. We love sitting down with a pint and learning how she's using her veggies.

The west metro area is packed with unique local producers and there's endless opportunity to find some local salad dressing, local marinades, other local growers - and of course, local brewers! Steph has all the recommendations. Stop in and say hi to her at LTD! (Say hi to us too if we're there...)

09/05/2022

Our first high tunnel tulips have popped! 💐 This is the first bunch, and hundreds more are coming along very nicely. We have a dozen or so varieties and I can't wait to see them all bloom. Come say hi and ogle these blossoms at THIS SATURDAY'S Richfield Farmers Market; it's our first Farmers Market of the season and we hope to see you there!

https://www.facebook.com/RichfieldFarmersMarket/

(Mom, what kind of tulip are the rose pink ones?!)