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Farm Happenings at Joy Haven Farm
Week #7 Farm Stand Offering
We have started harvesting beautiful Beatrice eggplants! Baba Ganoush dip, eggplant parmesan, stir fry, and grilled rounds added to a hamburger are some of my favorite ways to use them. Also ready this week is cucumbers, one of my favorite summer vegetables! Im sad to say the tomatoes are ripening1 read more »
Week #6 Farm Stand Order
Mortgage Lifter is a new variety of slicer tomato we are trying this year. A few have started ripening and we had our first BLT of 2023 and I have to say it is a very beautiful and tasty variety! They are just beginning to size up and ripen so we will have a few available. Last week for green beans1 read more »
Farm Stand Offer #5
Fennel and green garlic are the stars this week and the walk-in smells so good every time I go in it! While harvesting squash I spotted a tiny eggplant forming in the next row. I was pretty excited because I had started thinking the eggplants had become a trap crop. If you're not familiar with this1 read more »
Farm Stand Offering #4
Nothing says summer more than tomatoes, green beans, summer squash, and of course high temperatures, humidity and insects!
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Spring/Summer Farm Stand Offering #3
Cauliflower is the star this week! If you got cauliflower from us last fall they were very large, however Spring grown cauliflower is always a bit small but just as yummy! We will be selling them in 1 1/2# portions.
Cherry tomatoes are just starting to ripen and hope to have them for the next1 read more »
Spring/Summer Farm Stand Offer #2
A few of this new variety of mini-cabbage called Tiara will be available in this weeks offering. We started growing mini-cabbage heads last year and really love the sweet taste and the smaller size and this variety is a keeper. Lots of them not quit ready so look for these next offering as we1 read more »
Spring/Summer 2023 Farm Stand Offering #1
It's been a crazy spring weather ride so far but we are working around the cool weather, hot weather, rain and severe storms and getting all the seedlings planted! read more »
Fall Farm Stand Offering #5
Hoping everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, we had a nice break with great food and family! It's hard to believe its December already but the weather has been very pleasant and even cooled off a bit to make those winter crops even sweeter!
Coming up this week is our Caraflex cabbage (smalle1 read more »
Special Thanksgiving Offering
Special Thanksgiving Produce Offering this week! Sweet potatoes, lettuce mix, winter squash, onions, citrus, potatoes and persimmons and more will be in offering! We even got a surprise during the field walk today that some of the cauliflower is ready to harvest! My granddaughter and I had a great1 read more »
About the farm
Joy Haven Farm is a small Certified Naturally Grown market farm located in Shorter, AL, just north of Montgomery. We are entering our ninth growing season and strive for sustainability. We are currently offering Spring/Summer and Fall Farm Stand Session that includes our fresh seasonal vegetables and fruit. Add-ons such as eggs, yogurt, granola, coffee and meat from a neighboring sustainable farm can be delivered with each weeks share. We also provide seasonal vegetables to a number of local restaurants. We are thankful for what we have been entrusted with and will never use pesticides, insecticides, synthetic fertilizers or gmo seeds. Our goal is to leave our little piece of this world better than we found it.
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