Blue Ridge Pepper Patch

17/08/2024

Find us this morning from 8-12 at CrossFit Youngsville ! We will be there with fresh tomatoes, microgreens and more! We will also be rolling out our new Microgreens+eggs weekly subscription!

02/08/2024

We got it! Huitlacoche (aka Mexican truffles, corn mushrooms) is on our farm (despite corn not having been planted here in probably decades) We expect to have at least a few dozen ears like this. If you're in the triangle area and you've been seeking fresh huitlacoche or have been wanting to try it, send us a message and we can set you up!

25/07/2024

Don't worry about markets getting rained out, pre-order for easy pickup at two locations this weekend! Microgreens (pea, broccoli and radish), summer squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic, sweet and hot peppers, oh my! Also new farm and garden themed embroidered kitchen gear! Spicy jams and condiments too!!

Saturday from 9-12 at The Family Bee's-ness LLC
Sunday from 4-5 for Wake Forest Local Food Collaborative

No chemicals, local produce, from our farm to your table.

https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/pages/localorder

04/07/2024

You don't have to search far and wide for superfoods, and they're not always rare tropical ingredients. You can get superfoods at your local farmers market!
Visit us this Saturday at The Family Bee's-ness LLC

Amaranth leaves are extremely nutritious and tasty, and are eaten in many parts of the world but the United States seems to forget about them. Very high in vitamins, phytonutrients, it can be eaten raw or cooked just like you would eat spinach, like stirred into scrambled eggs! We will have samples available!

Microgreens are the tiny plants of different vegetables eaten whole, and in this tiny stage they have a lot of nutrients in a small package! Use them to garnish your meals or add to smoothies for an extra bioavailable nutrient boost. We sell our microgreens on a soilless h**p mat, so they stay alive and with maximum nutrients right until the moment you eat them.

You can't even pre-order to make sure you reserve yours https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/pages/localorder

21/06/2024

Have you ever had amaranth leaves? This tasty, leafy green is extremely nutritious and is more common in other parts of the world's cuisines, but is very underutilized in the US. It has a flavor similar to green beans, but with way more vitamins, and even protein! Use it like spinach, either raw or cooked. You can pick some up from us at two locations this weekend, Saturday at the The Family Bee's-ness LLC on-farm market from nine to noon, and Sunday at the wake forest, local food collaborative pick up from 4 to 5. We also have wild blackberries, the last of the spring onions, as well as sweet potato slips, and more!

16/06/2024

Need a last minute gift for dad? Get him what he really wants, the gift of spicy! Send a Blue Ridge Pepper Patch gift card, and let him choose from spicy condiments or wait until late summer to get fresh peppers! Gift cards can also be used for local-pickup produce!
https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/collections/gift-cards

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15/06/2024

We had to change our schedule around, but you can still find our produce at The Family Bee's-ness LLC market tomorrow from 9:00 to 12:00! The last of the spring onions and green garlic, but the first of the wild blackberries and summer squash! Microgreens and Rooted sweet potato slips also available!

11/06/2024

Our daikon radish microgreens over top of handmade bagels from Sourdough Delites makes an awesome a little lunch!

10/06/2024

It's awesome when individuals decide to start supporting small farms by shopping directly from farmers, but what they don't realize is that they are changing their own lives for the better. The quality of the products is often better with fewer chemicals and additives, and the local area retains more economic value rather than money working its way to CEOs and shareholders. Even reducing your time spent in grocery stores can elevate your emotional and mental health: you are exchanging fluorescent lights and optimized advertising designed to transfer your emotional energy to store profit, for time spent outdoors interacting with the actual people who grow and make your food (which can often boost your mental health).

09/06/2024

It's time! The first of the wild blackberries are in! Wasn't sure if I would have enough for the drop at the Wake Forest local food collaborative today, but I sure do! If you haven't checked out the drop yet, come see us outside of Vitality chiropractic in Wake Forest from 4:00 to 5:00!

06/06/2024

Well, there it is, my hundredth dozen eggs from our first flock of chickens! One of the hens laid a honker with double yolk to celebrate!

04/06/2024

It's definitely not too late to add plants to your summer garden! We still have a few seedlings available, mostly heirloom varieties. We offer local pickup in the Louisburg vicinity, but can ship Peppers and Tomatoes throughout the state.

Peppers: reapers, ghosts, habaneros, Thai, cayenne, Anaheim, ancho, cayenne, yellow bell, jalapeno, lemon spice jalapeno, puma, sangria, and a few others
tomatoes: Yellow pear, Cherokee purple and Queen of the night (a beautiful tomato! - I pulled a stock photo since this is our first year growing it)
Melons/squash: Dixie queen watermelon, royal golden watermelon, Sweet Glo watermelon, Boston Marrow squash

Order for local pickup/delivery:
https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/pages/localproduce
Order for Pepper and Tomato shipping:
https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/collections/plants

03/06/2024

What an awesome local dinner! The Family Bee's-ness LLC kelibasa, handmade perogis from Taste Of Poland Apex and our own green garlic and spring onions!

30/05/2024

Catch us at The Family Bee's-ness LLC in Franklinton this Saturday from 9:00 to noon! We will have.....

Plants for your garden
Eggs
Loose lettuce
Wild lettuce
Spicy jams and condiments
Microgreens
Garlic leaf
Green garlic
Baby spring onions
Swiss chard

And of course you can get more at the market from the other great vendors, like fresh baked sourdough meats and milk!

23/05/2024

This Saturday the 25th you can find us back at the Holly Springs Farmers Market ! We will have pepper and vegetable seedlings for your garden, as well as spicy condiments including hot mustard, pepper jelly, spicy fruit jams, and even Carolina reaper apple butter!

https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/

08/05/2024

This Saturday the 11th you can find us back at the Holly Springs Farmers Market ! We will have pepper and vegetable seedlings for your garden, as well as spicy condiments including hot mustard, pepper jelly, and even Carolina reaper apple butter!

https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/collections/plants

02/05/2024

We will be back at the The Family Bee's-ness LLC this Saturday the 4th! We're mostly in-between winter and summer produce at the moment, but we will have plants to stock your gardens with! You can even pre-order to reserve yours for pickup at the market!
https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/collections/plants

We'll also have jars of various spicy goodness courtesy of OuttaHouse Creations !

02/05/2024

Introducing our summer 2024 CSA! If you know what a CSA is, we hope you will be excited to join ours! If you're new to the CSA, it stands for community supported agriculture. Think of it as Kickstarter for farms! You pay one fee at the beginning of the season, it helps us to purchase needed beginning season inputs like compost, seeds, equipment. Then, every week between June 22 to Sept 7th, you get a fresh batch of amazing, chemical-free, local produce.

Visit our info page for more information!
https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/pages/csa-2024-information
On this page is a link to the order form. We hope you will join us for an amazing summer full of fresh produce!

Choose from large or small sizes, and subscribe for the full 12 weeks, or choose a half share for six weeks. Two pick up points, Wake Forest and Franklinton.
Share prices: (refer a friend and you both get a $15 discount when they choose their share!)
Full small: $300/Full large: $420
Half small: $175/Half large: $225

11/04/2024

You can find us this Saturday (the 13th) at the The Family Bee's-ness LLC opening, and Sunday through the Wake Forest Local Food collaborative!
This will be the last week for some produce until spring crops grow, so if you want to snag your favorites, pre-order for pickup at either location!
https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/collections/produce-for-local-delivery

WE WANT YOUR EGG CARTONS AND MASON JARS! As we continue selling eggs and flower bouquets, we'll need more supplies. Earn 25 cents for each carton and 75 cents for each quart-size mason jar toward any purchase!

Last week for Chickweed - this is a cool season wild edible, and warm weather signals it to die off. Try it now, or wait until winter!

Last week for a while for collards/cabbage/etc.. fall planted brassicas are ending, and we won't have more until spring-planted ones are yielding (roughly May)

BUT

Salad mix is back! - in wild form! A flavorful mix of wild lettuce, dandelion greens, sheep's sorrel, bitter dock and arugula! All you need is some simple dressing and some croutons!

Garlic won't be ready for a few more months, but snag some garlic leaves! yes, the tops of the plant are edible too, and harvestable while the bulb is still growing. Great for salads when you want a punch of flavor, or in cooked dishes to replace bulb garlic.

Some plant seedlings are ready! Get onions and edible flowers; (pepper and other plants ready soon!)

And of course, edible flowers, eggs, wild onions, flower bouquets are available!

08/04/2024

My "bouquet" of collard flowers! THEY'RE EDIBLE!! When cabbage, collard greens, kale, all of that, starts to bolt and set flowers, just eat them! After all, broccoli is the flower of that plant group and we eat it on purpose. In my opinion, collard flowers are SUPER tasty, raw or cooked! Conventional agriculture and the national food system waste so much of the plant that can otherwise be eaten, simply because it doesn't have long storage times on the shelf or grocery fridge. Normalize eating the "unusual parts"!

14/03/2024

Place your orders for convenient pickup The Family Bee's-ness LLC this Saturday from 9:00 to noon! We have more cabbages back in stock, as well as arugula flowers! The flowers of the plant have a slightly milder flavor than the leaves, and make a very pretty garnish for any meal! Cut flowers are also available!

https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/collections/produce-for-local-delivery

06/03/2024

Update: cabbages already sold out!

Two convenient pickup locations this weekend! We have microgreens available, as well as microgreen growing kits, collards, radishes, landcress, wild onions, and other wild foraged leafy greens.
Pick up Saturday morning The Family Bee's-ness LLC
Pick up Sunday afternoon in Wake Forest for the Wake Forest local Food Collaborative

https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/collections/produce-for-local-delivery

24/02/2024

16/02/2024

Black Spanish radishes over landcress and romaine, a perfect side salad for any Italian dinner
https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/collections/produce-for-local-delivery

08/02/2024

Two convenient pickup locations this weekend! We have microgreens available, as well as microgreen growing kits, collards, radishes, landcress and other wild foraged leafy greens.
Pick up Saturday morning The Family Bee's-ness LLC
Pick up Sunday afternoon in Wake Forest for the Wake Forest local Food Collaborative

https://www.blueridgepepperpatch.com/collections/produce-for-local-delivery