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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.

Report from the Farm

It’s just a fabulous time to be on the farm these days.  Our seedling sale is going well and allowing Justin and I to meet so many of our wonderful neighbors.  We’ve moved our watermelons and muskmelons out to the retail greenhouse and have added more flowers, tomatoes and lettuces on the benches.  We’ve got lots of Sun Golds for everyone!

Beyond the Seedling Sale there are lots of other exciting things growing on.  Look for our delicious pink rhubarb at Hunger Mountain Coop in Montpelier!  We’re preparing to transplant our cherry tomatoes into one of the greenhouses and next week we’ll be clearing greenhouse #4 of all the spinach in preparation for more tomatoes!  As I write Justin is out seeding two beds of carrots.

Tomatoes getting ready in #5

Goodbye spinach house!

Justin seeding carrots with the Planet Jr

 

 

 

 

 

The sunny weather these past two days has been perfect for many people’s least favorite task: weeding.  Often maligned, still more often ignored, weeding is actually a great opportunity to walk the fields and look closely at your crops and your soil.  If you have the right tools for your body and your style, weeding can be fun!  Justin and I got our hoes from Johnny’s just in time to try them out in the swiss chard and new carrots.

Top Field looking great

Elsewhere, the peas have been trellised and my little garbanzo bean plants have been thinned and weeded.   And the strawberries have tons of white flowers!

Peas (sugar snaps, shellies, snows)

Black Garbanzos

Strawberry flowers!

Great weekend

Our first weekend of the Seedling Sale went fabulously, thanks to all the great gardening folks who came out to the farm!  Justin and I enjoyed meeting members of the community and it was great to see people getting excited about all the veggies.  Some especially popular plants were Sun Gold cherry tomatoes, Gourmet sweet peppers, mixed-pack eggplants, and brussels sprouts.  We still have lots of everything!  Remember that Littlewood has lots of warm-loving seedlings like melons, winter squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant and peppers for planting in your gardens later in May (or June, if you’re very cautious!)  Some of these were just popping out last weekend; they’ll be perfect for planting time!

We’re open:

Wednesday – Friday, 4pm-6pm

Saturday – Sunday, 9am-2pm

You can also give us a call if these times don’t work for you and we’ll make sure to have someone around when you come.  Or you can just swing on by!

Thanks, folks!

on the plant horizon

 

 

 

Gearing up for the Seedling Sale!

Littlewood Farm’s Seedling Sale Begins Saturday!

Saturdays and Sundays, 9am – 2pm

Wednesday- Friday, 4pm – 6pm

 

We are positively swimming in plant starts and getting them labeled and organized for the beginning of the sale on Saturday.  Cool-loving crops like broccoli, cauliflower, red and green cabbage, onions, leeks, pansies, and lettuce have already moved outside.  They’re ready to plant now!

Inside the greenhouse are our warm-loving crops like tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, winter squash, cucumbers, and pumpkins; as well as flowers like cosmos, marigolds, calendula and the next round of cabbages, kales, and lettuce.

 

Don’t forget, we have Variety Descriptions for all the eggplant (traditional Italian, mini, Asian) , melons (red, yellows, multicolored, large, small) , tomatoes (cherry, grape, slicer, hybrid, heirloom, paste) and peppers (bell, horn-shaped, green, red, orange, sweet, hot).  There are a lot of choices!  We’ll also be around to answer any specific questions you may have.  See you at the sale!

 

we label because we care!


Seedling Sale Begins Saturday, May 12!

SEEDLING SALE:

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Hours:

Wednesday-Friday, 4-6pm

Saturdays and Sundays, 9am – 2pm

also by chance or appointment

Heirloom and hybrid tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, eggplants, rainbow chard, kales, brussels sprouts, red and green cabbage, broccoli, onions, muskmelons and watermelons, squash, herbs, hanging flower baskets, annual flowers…and more!

For descriptions of our eggplant, melon, tomato and pepper varieties, click “2012 Seedling Sale Varieties”.

See you at the farm!