Mater Matters

Even though the summer heat is already cranking up....we really like this time of year because we have tomatoes. Been looking for to a fresh tomato sandwich since last October.

There isn't anything better than a tomato sandwich. Big slice of tomato, mayo, salt and pepper.....love it. We have several varieties of slicing tomatoes currently, Cherokee purples, big beef, pink girls and small sun golds on the way. We also have basil. Some olive oil, tomatoes, onions, little garlic and fresh basil over pasta.... in fact, that is what we are having for dinner tonight.

Speaking of onions, we have some beautiful white and red candy varieties.
And if for some crazy reason the tomatoes don't sell at market....it is not a problem as that just means more for me!

Farm To Fork

Wild Hare Farm is excited to be participating in the 2010 Farm To Fork Picnic. We are honored to be paired with Amy Tornquist of Watts Grocery as well as Sage and Swift catering. The New York Times recently ran an article on Amy's exceptional culinary talents and Watts Grocery. She has been more credits than I have space to blog in.

For more about Farm To Fork: http://www.farmtoforknc.com/

For more on Amy and Watts Grocery: http://www.wattsgrocery.com/

Say hello to my "lily" friends

If you didn't see Scarface then the play on words will be lost.


















Our first calla lilies of the season are starting to come on. I am not much of a photographer so this picture doesn't do them justice. These guys are cool and we'll have several different colors available.



















Asiatic Lilies. Over the course of the summer we will have these in white, yellow, red, pink and orange.



















We also will have oriental lilies in red, white and pinks on and off through out the summer.

All of these flowers have a great vase life. The orientals have a strong sweet fragrance, the callas and asiatic are not fragrant, they are just eye candy.

Mother's Day

OMG ! It's almost Mother's Day and the conundrum of what to give mom.

Not to worry, WHF will have you covered.

What mom doesn't love beautiful flowers?









For Mother's Day we will have several varieties of flowers available: fragrant stock, tall delphinium, bachelor buttons, agrostemma, poppies, dutch iris, lilies and last but certainly not least tulips.





This is our last planting of tulips and we'll have red parrots, a neat red fringe, along with multiple varieties of regular long stem tulips in pink, yellow, red and orange.






To ensure you stay in mom's good graces and score extra bonus points we have delicious strawberries to compliment the flowers. Or you can eat the strawberries yourself and your secret will be safe with us.



Merle ensuring the bachelor buttons meet WHF quality standards.

Photos from around the farm

Strawberries ready for market.
















Hoop House tomatoes.



















Onions. We have 3 varieties this year.















Bee hive from Cedar Grove Bee Works.











Crimson Clover cover crop. Bees are happy.














Delphiniums.













Sunset at Wild Hare Farm.

Farm Tour April 24 and 25

Wild Hare Farm is excited to be participating for our 7th straight year in the Carolina Farm Stewardship Associations North Carolina Piedmont Farm Tour. Visit this link for more information on how to participate. http://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/

Farm Tour is a great opportunity for folks to visit area farms, see where their food
is grown, get ideas and meet the farmers.



We have tomatoes growing in our Hoop Houses, multiple varieties of flowers, our field strawberries are just starting to ripen and other goodies growing such as lettuce, radishes, carrots, etc.


Hope to see you all on the tour and that everyone enjoys all of the great local farms.

Where's Tom Sawyer when you need him

Recently a proclamation was made at WHF, that the pretty flowers didn't look so pretty on the ugly market tables. It was a fair statement. Being dearth of Tom Sawyer's powers of persuasion meant a mini-project painting the market tables was in my immediate future. Our market tables are of the home made variety and serve double duty. They are handy for several things around the farm and as such catch a fair amount of abuse. An antique table from Smith and Hawken (while very cool) is not really required for the farmers market, but having your market hardware distract from your product is not smart for business either.

Painting our tables is really no big deal, other than there is nothing about painting I like. Some people state they don't mind painting, it is the prep or clean up they don't care for. Not me, I loathe it all. The only thing I can find redeeming about painting is I can usually have an adult beverage during the process.

The brush strokes I employee can be best described as: sling, glob, dribble, pool and puddle. And if I have to paint it, then you can have any color you want as long as it is white. The word "Trim" is not part of my vocabulary.

The final paint job doesn't look too bad all things considering and achieves the goal of not distracting from this bucket of ranunculus. Now I have somewhere to place my beverage. Wonder if I'll be required to use a coaster?