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Plant Sale 2023!

Happy May and welcome to the 2023 growing season!

Our spring plant sale starts Saturday May 12th and Sunday 13th, from 9-2 pm. We’ll be open for the next 2 weekends.

“ What’s happening at Littlewood Farm?”
It’s the 33rd annual spring plant sale. We have selected varieties, chosen to best adapt to our changeable climate. We aim to have the right sized plant, growing vigorously, timed to set in your garden when the conditions are right. We might not have everything, but you will find most of you need to give your garden a jump start for the growing season. Joey and Betsy welcome your visit. A list of plants will be posted soon to this website and Facebook.

We’ll also have our famous rhubarb plants available. This is the strain selected by Ralph Persons of Williamstown. It is amazingly productive, if well fed. Call ahead if you want a few cuttings.

Please recycle your plastic trays. Bring them along to reuse or contribute to the farm supply.

We want to congratulate Kagen and Elise (dba Blackbird Organics) as they soon purchase a land-trusted farm in Marshfield. They’ll continue to lease our crop land and some greenhouses at Littlewood Farm for the next few years. They’ll also be selling Littlewood grown rhubarb and strawberries at the local coops this season.

Joey and Spencer Hardy, one of current farm helpers, have been busy in the raspberry patch; we plan to have both summer and fall crops available for Pick-your-own.

Spencer and Jackie Huettenmoser, our two farm helpers, have put a lot of effort into improving our orchard as well. They’ll soon be getting married and in November moving onto their own land-trusted farm. So Littlewood, which is a land-trusted farm, is looking for another individual or couple ready to get started on organic farming practices. Pass this on if you know of any potential farmers. And best wishes to Spencer and Jackie!

It’s always great to see the leaves coming out. This rainy spell will help sustain our forests and fields throughout the summer. Working with plants and soil is good for the soul. May our lives continue to be so blessed.

We’re always thankful that our community and the Vermont Land Trust have made it possible for us to preserve this special place for the future.

August

Sweet and ripe!

August seems to have barely arrived and we’re already looking to September.  Our wholesale orders for kale, chard, lettuce, peppers, eggplant, cherry tomatoes, corn and more continue steadily.  The unseasonably dry weather has meant that we’re lugging irrigation pipe all over the farm when we’re not harvesting.  We want to send a special thanks out to all our farmers’ market customers who join us every week in Barre and Plainfield, we’ve been having a great time at the markets and it’s so nice to share the joy of tasty, beautiful produce with you all.  Thanks!

 

Yum!

Fabulous colors!

Justin talking to customers in Plainfield

squash, daikon, potatoes, onions, carrots, beets and more!

Irrigation in the mid fields

 

Reports from the Field: the end of June

As you can probably tell from the lack of updating, these past couple of weeks have been very busy here at Littlewood.

PYO Strawberries have come and gone.  Thanks to everyone who come out to pick!  It took a lot of work to prepare and run PYO and the whole Klein family made it happen.  Strawberries coincided with a long, hot week of weeding as well.  We had great help from Emlyn, Elsa, Amanda and Annie with weeding, picking for orders and farmers’ markets and trellising in the greenhouses.

Lots of new veggies have started to ripen in the past couple of weeks.  We’ve been bringing early broccoli, garlic scapes as well as snap, snow and shell peas to market.  Soon our summer squash will be ready and new potatoes are coming down the line as well.  Tomatoes are green and getting bigger every day!  There are lots of little peppers in the field!

cherry tomatoes

and slicers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week has seen Littlewood ramping up its wholesale sales too.  Cases of kale, collards, and swiss chard have been heading out to Farm to Table, Hunger Mountain and Plainfield Coops.  Through Farm to Table, our produce is getting into the kitchens of Central Vermont Medical Center and onto the plates of patients and visitors there.

In the midst of all this production, we’re also seeding and transplanting our fall kales, broccoli, Bok Choi and other Asian greens and chard.  Weeding remains a never-ending task as we continue to care for our crops in the field.  On the docket for the coming weeks are trellising the tomatoes in the greenhouses, harvesting the rest of the garlic scapes, getting our field tomatoes staked and trellised, scouting for pests… etc.  July, here we come!

Greenhouse #4

 

berries, berries, berries

This week the folks here at Littlewood will be picking strawberries nonstop for Hunger Mountain Coop in Montpelier.  The field looks great; lots of nicely-shaped green berries that will ripen for pick-your-own.  We’ll open for pick-your-own around the 23rd but the exact date is still in the air.  If you can’t wait until then, remember you can find our berries at Hunger Mountain and at the Barre and Plainfield Farmers’ Markets!

STRAWBERRIES at the Plainfield Farmers’ Market TODAY!

First Berries of the Season!

Plainfield Farmers’ Market

TODAY, 4-7pm

We’re so excited to have early berries, especially because we’re also bringing rhubarb!  Crisp time!

Come on down to the Plainfield Farmers’ Market today and get these juicy treats before we sell out.  We’ll also have huge bunches of kale, rainbow chard, and collards, as well as asparagus and our organic plant seedlings.

Probably the last week for asparagus too!

*PYO strawberries will begin around the 23rd of June.  I’ll write the exact date as soon as we know!*

Plainfield Farmers’ Market begins this afternoon!

Our stand at Barre from last week

Come visit Littlewood Farm at the Plainfield Farmers’ Market TODAY!

4pm-7pm

We’ll have lettuce and salad mix, rhubarb and asparagus, black beans and mustard greens!  We’ll also bring a selection of our organically grown plant seedlings, for those of you who didn’t have time to plant last weekend or maybe discovered you had more room for hot peppers than you previously thought!

See you there!

Vendors at the Barre Farmers’ Market!

The great folks at the Barre Farmers’ Market have listed their 2012 vendors.  Check out the fabulous diversity of producers and our wares:

Amanda Peyerl~Pottery and Honey Products
Barre Congregational Church~Crafts
Creative Indulgence Hand painted crafts and baked goods
Creamery Meadow Farm~Produce
Ella Hilton VanOsdall~ Jewelry
Flora/Fauna Shee Grazers~ Wool Products
Graze and Gaze Farm~Meats
Garden of Seven Gables~ soaps and herbal oils
Highland Garden~ Plants and Annuals
Hot Tamale~Tamales, Tacos and Burritos
Kristin Ferry~ Breads and Rolls
Lepage Farm~ Produce
Lightfoot Farm~ Dried flowers crafts
Littlewood Farm~ Produce
Mint Magic~Mint cookies and brownies
Single Gate Farm~ Produce, flowers, crafts
Taproot Consulting~Herbal teas and tinctures
Woodchuck Hollow Farm~ Produce

Don’t forgot, the first market is:

May 16th, 3 – 6:30pm, at City Hall Park in Barre!