A few things coming up
• We will be planting fruit trees on Sunday, Jan. 20 and Monday, Jan 21 and volunteers are welcome. If you want to learn how to plant a tree or work in a garden let us know through the contacts page. We will start each day around 9:00 and work until dark, so come when you can, but please let us know when that is.
• We will have a few fruit trees available at the market this weekend. Plums, figs, blackberries, blueberries, and persimmons.
• We will teach a permaculture gardening class at the farm on February 24, and another on March 24. tickets
• Our next farm dinner will be Sunday, March 3 and tickets are now on sale. All dinners have recently sold out early. We will have March, April, May and June dinners. So mark down March 3 as the next Sunday afternoon farm to table dinner. Tickets
• We will have another farm to table dinner on April 7 in conjunction with Slow Foods Houston. Tickets will go on sale Dec 30.
• Our CSA is available. Sign up for 10 weeks of vegetable box. Pickup available at the market on Saturday or the farm on Fridays. Register
Our next farm tour will not be until March because we cannot park cars in the winter pasture.
Please contact us for information about private parties, wedding, etc.
We are a small permaculture farm in northern Waller County, Texas near Hempstead.
We grow for direct sales at farmer markets, offer a CSA, deliver to restaurants, have farm dinners, and have other on-farm events.
We grow everything with no synthetic fertilizers, fungicides, pesticides, or herbicides. We follow organic rules, using permaculture and biodynamic farming principles. We raise produce, fish (aquaponics), chickens for eggs, broiler chickens, Gulf Coast Native Sheep..
Our plants are grown very different from the rest.
We currently sell at the Urban Harvest Farmers Market on the corner of Westheimer and Buffalo Speedway in Houston most Saturdays from 8:00 to 12:00.
Chemical farming should be certified. Organic farming should be normal.
NRCS high tunnel kits available locally
Glen, your This Week statement (3/10) is one of the most articulate and persuasive I have seen on the subject of sustainable agriculture, earth stewardship and the nature of our food supply. I really respect what you do and how you do it. Thanks.
Congratulations on Kenan’s retirement–excited for your increase in staff!
Hello iam a new small veggie and strawberry farmer iam trying to go organic. I have 8000 strawberries half aren’t doing as well as my test batch several years ago. The other half are different variety they look good. Can u suggest an organic something to boost the production of the strawberrys. I have many people waiting to do the u pic and I am desparately trying to kick it off. Any suggestions would help. Thanks. Jana saxton. 936 444 5209
Im looking to buy a few organic fruit trees. Oranges and apples. Maybe a few others. My cell is 5046157518
Part of a growing movement, commendable. In Europe I see more and more sustainable farmers struggling because regulations allow GMO planting close to e.g. organic-certified farms which then get cross-pollinated and eventually lose their license or have to curtail their operations to put more free space between their core fields and the GMO pollinators. I understand the US has a bit more space than the EU farms as a rule but on the other hand I understand your GMO lobbyists to be far more aggressive. Have you gotten any problems yet?
We are luckily surrounded by non-farming land holders. This is a big problem in much of the farming community. It is about one mile from our farm to the nearest GMO field and that is usually corn.
I am highly interested in your backyard aquaponics workshop. When will you offer your next class?
I will be offering it again in January and each month in the spring. Check back in about two weeks and I will have the spring schedule up. Glen
I’m very intersted in coming to work on your farm as an intern. Could you point me in the right direction.
We are not set up for interns at this point. We do have public volunteer work days and you can come help and learn.
Good Morging glen, Cath Conlon here. If I want to come and visit you, is that possible ? How do I do it?
Hope you are well,
Cath
Can your processed chickens be picked up closer to Magnolia?
We are at 38238 Wiggins Rd in Hempstead, but only by appointment. 713-542-6615
I am going to be out of pocket most of this week but will be available the next week.
Where is your farm located? I am very interested in visiting/purchasing.
We are in Hempstead Texas. We are not open to the public at any regular times. We will have a open house in October. We sell out products at the Eastside Farmers Market in Houston, Tx.
Do you have any wwoof opportunities at your farm?
not at this time.
Will you have any young ewe’s and(or) a ram available for purchase this year? I am interested in starting my own flock!
Thanks,
Colby
I see that you can’t do WWOOFing or internship opportunities, but do you know of anyone in the Houston area that does long-term options? Or even the Austin area?
I am interested in WWOOFing (or even better interning) for a few months at least!
Our issue is housing. At present we do not have any available housing. We would love to get some more living space soon.
Glen
Thanks for the reply Glen. Do you know of any farms in the Houston or Austin area that like to take interns or WWOOFers?
Hi I am interested in purchasing lambs . My cell is: 361-701-0510.thank you
I am searching for Texas grown plums of any variety. Do you know of anyone who will have them available this year. Need at least a gallon. Also, figs later in the year. Many thanks.
Dear Glen,
I left the Farmers Market without returning to pick up the tulsi. If you have any left, could I pick up 2 next Saturday?
Thank you,
Denise