Farm Updates

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July 7th- Current produce offerings: Fincel's sweet corn, greenhouse tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cabbage, kohlrabi, pickling size cucumbers, fresh dill, green beans, cucumbers, yellow and green zucchini, mixed hot peppers and sweet banana peppers, beets, carrots, and red and Yukon Gold new potatoes.  Bell peppers are just starting, and eggplant is coming soon.  Yellow beans will make a few appearances throughout our season, but we don't have as many planted of these as we do with green beans.  We have had a few issues recently with South Carolina peaches, and we are working with our supplier to ensure we receive good quality peaches before we will sell any again.  We have just started picking muskmelons.  These begin slowly, only harvesting a few per day in the beginning.  By roughly the middle of the month, we should have large amounts available.  Watermelons start sometime in the second half of July.  New this year we will have a limited amount of honeydew melons.  

2024 Sweet Corn began on July 5th and ended on September 30th. 2024 was one of our more challenging years.  We experienced heavy rains with high winds in the first half of our season, which caused flash flooding, erosion, fertilizer reduction, and other problems.  Mid-season we experienced a derecho which flattened one of our plantings.  Late season we had a lack of rain and dealt with many critters that wanted to feast on our corn.  We are hoping to have more stable weather conditions in 2025.

During the last 10 years, our sweet corn has begun between July 3rd and July 14.  Our earliest ever start to our sweet corn season was on June 24, 2012.  The timing of our first sweet corn date depends completely on the weather in the early growing season.  Our sweet corn typically ends in mid-late September, all weather dependent.  We have typically planted our first sweet corn between April 1st - April 22th.