Farm Updates

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June 3rd - Our greenhouses are now closed for the season.  For our remaining plants and our produce, please visit us at our JFK stand, open daily 9am-1pm.  Produce that is available: asparagus (almost done for the season), radishes, kohlrabi, spring onions, cherry tomatoes (just started), greenhouse tomatoes, broccoli, and South Carolina peaches.  Strawberries just started!  Snow peas are starting soon.   In the second half of June, we will also have beans, new potatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini.  Pick-your-own strawberries usually starts sometime in the third week of June, date to be determined.  We are anticipating that sweet corn will begin around July 4th or 5th.  We will finalize the exact date by around the beginning of July.  Estimating the growth rate of plants is not so easy, as we have to rely on the weather for proper growing conditions.  

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.