Grateful Farms is a 100% all natural vegetable farm. Our passion is to grow food the way God intende
(2)
Hi everyone! Sorry I have totally forgotten about this page. Been a little crazy around here. Rick our farmer has had a total knee replacement at the peak of our garden production. I'm starting to think he planned that. lol. Anyway things are coming in strong and as long as I have energy we will offer what I have time to pick and get ready. Here's our first big box of the season.
Have a blessed week!
Who loves kale chips? I could eat them all…so good!
Fresh kale, torn from stalks. Break in bite size pieces. Put in gallon zip-lock bag with a little olive oil, sea salt & garlic powder. Shake to coat. Dump on cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake at 300 degrees, 15 minutes at a time till crunchy.
Note: started with 2 huge cookie sheets covered with kale, end product a little over a quart sized bag.
Get your greens on!!! 🥬
ARUGULA, KALES, MUSTARD GREENS & TATSOI
OKRA, BABY CARROTS, EGGPLANT 🥕🍆
Always chemical free!
Tomorrow at the Victoria Farmers Market
Get here early before they are all sold.
9:00am - 1:00pm, Patty Dodson Health Center
Praying you have your best Christmas season ever!!!
🎄❄️☃️
Join us at the Victoria FARMERS MARKET THIS WEDNESDAY!
9:00 - 1:00pm
We will have baby carrots, super greens salad mix, kale, mustard greens, eggplant, okra, pickled okra and late season pumpkins.
Hope to see you there. :)
EGGPLANT GONE WILD SALE! $2 per lb.
I am trying a new recipe with it today, Garlic Parmesan Baked Eggplant. recipe: https://www.crunchycreamysweet.com/baked-eggplant/
I was determined to find some way to cook eggplant that Rick would like. He loves veggies, but not eggplant. lol. I noticed we had some Zatarains Fish Fry and so I came up with the following:
Fish Fried Eggplant: Cut eggplant in 1/8 - 1/4" slices, then dip it straight into your favorite fish fry batter, and pan fry it in a little olive oil. So VERY easy and so AMAZING!!! Even farmer Rick loved it!
Text 361-649-9961 to get your eggplant today.
Also, most important, remember to SMILE! The world needs lots of love now, and a smile is an easy way to spread some.
OKRA gone wild!!! We have some outstanding okra. ON SALE now $5 lb.
Also have some small stuffing size pumpkins 6-8 for $5 and pumpkin pie pumpkins $3-4 each in orange and white.
Text 361-649-9961 to get yours.
COMING SOON - 🥦🥬🍆🍠
Happy FALL y’all! My favorite time of the year.
Lots of goodies in the ground doing their thing, can’t wait till harvest time.
We do still have some amazing okra and our first harvest of tiny pumpkins with larger ones still on the vine. Text me at 361-649-9961 to order yours.
Okra - tender not tough - $6 lb.
Pumpkins - $1 each or 6 for $5
Good afternoon! Hope you are having a fantastic week!
Just wanted to say hi and that we have more...
PICKLED OKRA!!! Yumm.
Okra is coming in strong now!! :) Pickling as fast as I can. lol
Have about 38 quarts. $12.00 quart.
Text 361-649-9961 to get yours.
Sweet potatoes and pumpkins coming along nicely!
Did you know sweet potato greens are edible and very good for you?
Hi everyone! Hope you are doing well. While we are transitioning from a summer to fall garden, I will be testing out some recipes and thinking of all things pumpkin! We are going to try growing some pumpkins. It may be too hot here, but we are giving it a try. We have purchased a variety of different kinds and they are already in the ground.
Pumpkin scones are one of my favorites, and pumpkin pie is Rick's absolute favorite dessert - no crust! Those may be coming your way soon, if all goes well. :)
Eggplant Caponata! Don't let the eggplant part scare you off. This is a sweet and spicy relish with olives and capers, great on crackers or toasted garlic crisps. $8 - 8oz.
Available: Only 6 jars.
To order text 361-649-9961 for porch pick up, or $5 delivery.
Sassy Salsa (Med.) and NOW Sassier Salsa (hot)!!!
Made with our beyond organic tomatoes and peppers.
$8 - pint
AVAILABLE:
Sassy Salsa - 4 jars
Sassier Salsa - 8 jars
To order text 361-649-9961 for porch pick up, or $5 delivery.
Bodacious Beets! This is a mixture of Red Ace and Chioggia beets, with lots of cinnamon and love. $8 each, 16 oz.
To order text 361-649-9961 for porch pick up, or $5 delivery.
Fredericksburg Peach Jams!!! These are full of some of the best peaches we have found in years. $10 each, 8 oz.
Available:
Cinnamon Peach - 8 jars left
Jalapeno Peach - 5 jars left
Basil Peach - 10 jars left
To order text 361-649-9961 for porch pick up, or $5 delivery.
We are at the end of our canning season for this summer, but our Okra is coming in strong now.
Neat story: This okra is from the same okra seed that Rick's granny found growing in their cotton fields as a little girl, back in 1929. We hope you love it as much as we do!
Pickled Okra NOW AVAILABLE! $12 quart.
To order text 361-649-9961 for porch pick up, or $5 delivery.
We are at the end of our canning season for this summer. Made another 28 quarts of Dolly's Dill Pickles. Get them while you can!!
$10 quart, whole, spears or slices available.
To order text 361-649-9961 for porch pick up, or $5 delivery.
What vegetables would you like to see us grow this fall?
Hi everyone! Hope you are doing well. We are great! In our posts, we want to keep you informed of what's going on at the farm. I will try to be more consistent with the posting. :/ Been knee deep in canning veggies. lol. We still have some tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers, and our okra crop is getting more and more productive. I plan on pickling some okra soon, if I can find dill and pickling salt at the same time. During Covid canning has become a big hit, making items harder to find now.
Rick has been slowly transitioning from our spring/summer garden to our fall garden. He has sweet potatoes planted, and will be planting lots of other things, as soon as we get some w**ds (thanks to all the rain) under control. Between working full time and with all of this rain, it's been a little crazy, but we LOVE IT! After all...what's life without a little adventure?
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
What vegetables would you like to see us grow this fall?
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Want to help get the w**ds under control? We will trade you time for veggies! Text me at 361-649-9961. :)
Check out these gorgeous peppers!! Have you ever made Eggplant Caponata (ka•puh•naa•tuh)?
I had a friend serve it at a party years ago, nothing in it I liked, yet I fell in love with it!!! It’s a Sicilian eggplant salad or relish, with eggplant, peppers, onions, olives, capers, honey, red wine vinegar, raisins and herbs. The way all the flavors blend is yummy. We have the eggplant, these peppers, and tomatoes, you add the rest. I may be canning some soon. Love colorful food!!!! 🍆🫑🍅
Hey friends we are back in town and ready to take your orders. Check out our new Market items and get them while they last. Have a blessed day!!!
Text orders to 361-649-9961. 🍅🥒🍊🍆🫑
Hope to see you!!! We will have tomatoes, basil, eggplant, and lots more!!
The TOMATOES are going crazy!!
Rick picked buckets of vine ripened maters today.
Baby Roma’s, red and yellow cherry tomatoes, Italian tomatoes, and a lot of the large slicers.
Want to offer them to you while they are good and fresh. If you want any text me at 361-649-9961.
The tomatoes are coming in strong now. Slicers - great for burgers, or sandwiches. Amazing on a BLT!! Order yours today, text 361-649-9961.
Know your farmer...trust your food!
PICKLES • PICKLES • PICKLES!!!
Sold out of the first batch, so I made some more. Get them while you can.
Bread & Butter $6 pint
Dolly's Dill $10 quart
Text 361-649-9961
It’s time for this week’s basket. We will be doing these since it is getting hotter and until our crops last. We are constantly replanting new things too.
Orders will be filled as we receive them,until we run out. Some items may need a substitution. If that happens, I’ll text or message you.
$20 for the basket.
Pickles - $6 pint for Bread & Butter Pickles
$10 qt. for Dolly’s Dill Pickles
Porch pick-ups this Saturday 8-noon.
Text orders to 361-649-9961.
We are an all natural, no chemical garden!! 🤗
Have a great day!!
Hey!!! Did you know that today is.....
National Eat Your Vegetables Day??
Coming soon, we will have Carrots!!! Had a great germination thanks to all the rain, just waiting on them to grow.
Also planted Sweet Potatoes this week along with Basil. So much more to come!
What’s your favorite veggie? What would you like to see us grow in the fall?
Basket announcement will post soon!!!
Have a great day!!! 🤗🥒☀️🍅
This carrot may not look like anything special but it's special to us. Sharon has named it the unity carrot.
Back in October of last year we started this venture known as Grateful Farms. We leased the land, had 100 cubic yards of organic compost delivered and started the journey to plant a market garden early this spring. November and December was spent laying the groundwork for a business that would provide nutrient rich, chemical free vegetables to our family, friends and community. Everything seemed great until December 30th when we were both diagnosed with Covid and we were very sick for about 3 weeks.
On the first day where I felt good enough to get back to work I severely broke a finger building my deer fence and that sidelined me for another couple weeks. Next was the great freeze of 2021 and even though we didn't have anything planted yet, the freeze caused me to be stuck at work for most of the next three weeks and got further behind. The fourth setback came when all of our starter plants being shipped from North Carolina took 11 days to be delivered rather than the three days as promised. Needless to say, plants that spend that much time in a box with no light or water will die.
Thankfully, Sharon's brother, David Heiser, came on board to help me get back on track. He and I basically spent every spare moment available to get the garden going. We were a bit late but we finally had it growing very well. The last couple months have seen larger and larger harvests and we've been working tirelessly to get all of this beautiful produce to market. For the last month I've been working about 90 hours a week on straight nights for a shutdown at work and spending every spare minute trying to keep up with the garden. Sharon has been picking up the slack and doing an amazing job at cleaning, packaging, processing and marketing lots of veggies for our weekly farmer's market and online orders. She and her mom spent most of a weekend making some amazing pickles that have been wildly popular. This week was really crazy trying to get back to a normal schedule and getting ready for the weekend market. We barely got any sleep last night and today's market was a huge success despite being extremely hot and humid. We got home exhausted and spent.
Just as we were winding down for the evening the phone rang and David told us we had to come to the garden right now. It's been raining for most of the last month and the farm was starting to look more like a jungle. We pulled up to the gate and to our amazement David and his wife, Liz had spent the entire day, in the heat and humidity, mowing, w**d eating, laying w**d barrier, moving rocks, cleaning up and making the place look awesome. We were at a loss for words and Sharon was in tears.
When you go to the market and all of your customers, many of whom are already regulars, rave about your vegetables, your parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and friends stop by and show their appreciation, and then this. Wow, just wow!! This really takes a community and we are blown away by all the support. So yes, this twisted carrot is the unity carrot and we are proud to do our part to make this community a little better. We'll keep growing it and we are really truly Grateful!
Rick's Box Special available at the Farmer's Market tomorrow, includes: Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Potatoes, Pepper Assortment THEN you choose the next 2 items from Eggplant, Beets, Turnips, Radishes, Kale and Squash. $20.
Pickles available also!
Hope to see you there - 9-1 pm Victoria Farmers Market :)
Come meet our farmer, Rick! We will have tomatoes, eggplant, corn, potatoes, green beans, beets, turnips, radishes, peppers, squash and zucchini. 🌽🌶🫑🍆🍅🌽🌶🫑🍆🍅🌽🫑🌶
Homemade Dill Pickles and Bread & Butter Pickles while they last! 🥒
This weekend at the Victoria Farmers Market, 2805 N. Navarro 9am - 1pm.
FREE T-SHIRT to first person to mention this post!
W O W!!! What a great response! Thank you everyone for purchasing the boxes. Sold out almost immediately! Woohoo! 🙂
You are awesome Victoria!
We do still have a few of the add ons available:
This is what we have left, text me if you want any, 361-649-9961.
Available to pick up tomorrow between 10am and 12:00pm.
5 bunches of Red Russian Kale - $5 a bunch
5 bunches of Breakfast Radishes - $3 each
4 small boxes of Arugula - $3 each
6 tubs of shucked Sweet Corn - $5each
6 Hakurei turnips - $5 tub
And a few eggplant
No Chemicals - All Naturally Grown
BOXES AVAILABLE TODAY!!
Hello everyone!! Are y’all getting as tired of this rain as we are? If we diasappear the mosquitos may have carried us off while harvesting your veggies. There are some monster-sized ones out there. 🦟
With the current weather forecast and uncertainty of getting rained out at the Farmers Market this weekend, we are starting up our boxed orders this week!!!
RICK’S BOX- tomato variety pack, yellow squash, zucchini, pepper pack (bell pepper, jalepenos , serranos ), cucumbers, potatoes - $20
ADD ONS: after purchase of a box
(limited quantities available while they last)
Egg Plant $3 each
Arugula - $3 sm. clamshell
Mustard Greens - $3 sm. clamshell
Kale bunches - $5
Sweet Corn shucked - $5 large clamshell
Green Beans - $5 bag
French Breakfast Radishes - $3 bunch
Purple top turnips - $5 bunch
Hakurei Turnips (sweeter & milder) - $5 container
with sage & recipe card - $8
forgot to put BEETS - $3 bunch - Chioggia or Red Ace
Delivery - $5 (Thursday & Friday, 6-3,4-21)
Pickups today (Thursday & Friday, 6-3,4-21)
Text orders to: 361-649-9961
All produce naturally grown, no chemicals!
Victoria Farmers Market tomorrow!!! We will be there, hope to see you!!! Yellow squash, zucchini, turnips, beets, potatoes, peppers, sweet corn, lettuces, cucumbers and kale 9am - 1pm, 2805 N. Navarro.
This is what I do with my mustard greens or argula.
I am not a fan of eggs but I do like them when I sauté some baby yellow squash in EVOO with a little garlic powder and sea salt, add 2 egg whites (or whole eggs if you like). Once the eggs are cooked I cut off the burner and throw in a huge handfull of greens, stir to let them wilt. I top with nutritional yeast. So good!!!
Turnip Greens with Red Onion, Serrano and bacon sautéed in a little EVOO. What do you do with your greens?
Wow our first market in the books, and it was great - SOLD OUT!!! Thank you so very much to everyone for your support!! We honestly weren’t sure we had enough to sell until Wednesday night when Rick told me the garden just had a sudden growing spurt. A little hard to pull off but thanks to our friends and family we did it. Wendy Hardin Foster and Ron Foster y’all are the bomb!! Hope all of you are loving the veggies you purchased! 🙌🏻😘
Getting ready for the Farmers Market this Saturday!! We will have a great Spring Mix, and more Lettuce , Red Russian Kale, Arugula, Mustard Greens that are amazing, Radishes, baby yellow squash ( we don’t like it big and seedy), red potatoes, cucumbers, zucchini and beets!
Come see us!! 9-1pm at the Patty Dodson Health Center lot. All fresh picked and full of flavor and NO chemicals. 🙌🏻🙌🏻💕🥒🥬🥔🥬☀️🐞
It's an exciting time at Grateful Farms. We are gearing up for our FIRST FARMERS MARKET, this Saturday with some of our first picks. We will have Dark Red New Potatoes, Yellow Summer Squash, Dunja Zucchini, lots of types of Greens and Lettuces, Red Ace Beets and Boldor Golden Beets. All Naturally Grown with NO Chemicals!
••Saturday 9:00 -1:00 2805 N. Navarro @ the Patty Dodson Health Center••
• First two- people to stop by our booth and mention this post, will get a free t-shirt.
Our very first veg from the garden ~ some lettuces and kale. Salad for supper!
You CARROT live without this shirt!
•
The winners for our t-shirt contest have been announced! If you didn't win, don't feel down about it. You can still get one of our soft and stylish shirts for only $18 plus tax. We have olive green and black, available in adult sizes S-3X.
•
DM me to place your order and arrange for pickup. Accepting Venmo, Apple Pay and good ole cash.
Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Grateful Farms TX posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Send a message to Grateful Farms TX:
Want your business to be the top-listed Pet Store/pet Service?
