The 2012 crop was primarily baking pumpkins, & squash. Approx. 1400 lbs. Our secondary crop was tomatoes, 4 varieties with yields of 23 bushel. Peppers, both sweet and hot variety's - the third primary crop, with a yield of approx 11 bushel. Our onion crop , green bean, wax bean, and pea crop suffered from the extreme heat and drought and were lost. (The drought greatly reduced all production)
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| Hand planting specialty crops |
Farm market and at the farm sales were $372.00 Approx $1600.00 of our crop was made available to local food assistance/meal programs. This was accomplished by both direct delivery & poster at outreach programs that invited families with children to "help themselves" to produce picked fresh daily and displayed at the farm. and web postings on our children's farm website Blubearsgarden.blogspot.com/ Additionally, approx (4) 72 cell flats of peppers and tomato plants were grown for low income families or the elderly . Some of these were given away in 6" pots or patio containers. (for the elderly)
Seed stock was grown and collected from some of our most productive varieties, and are now in inventory.
Report compiled by Bobbi Urban & Randall Nalett
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