Question of the Day - Start of American Supermarkets

 

I recently asked someone in the agriculture field why they thought people would rather go the grocery store (aka supermarket) rather than purchase from a local farmers' market, farm, grow their own, etc. The answer I received was one I hadn't thought of:  It began as a matter of status after the depression, you were a better person if you were seen in a grocery store rather than in a field, a farm or someone's garden.  After the depression folks somehow through television, radio, magazines, thought it to be more "in style", almost like it bettered themselves if they were to go and shop rather than grow, sew, bake, build.  The trouble with that is most of us would not know how to survive if we had a depression today.  How many local farms, farmers' markets, do you know of should this happen today?  Who of us can sew our own clothes, bake or cook our own foods? Grow our own food?  How about make our own medicine?  Things to think about.  If/when that happened now, who would be an overnight master of these things?  

Anole Lizard Shedding

Our little Garden Helper. His name is George and all his coworkers are also named George. Him's cute!

Little Eden's Farm Stand Re-Opens - Cooler weather!

Our Little Eden Farm Stand reopens!!

Nearly every time we go to Crawfordville someone asks if we are going to open up our Farm Stand again. Thank you for asking!  It's cooling down so we are reopening our Farm Stand every day from daylight to dark Sunday - Friday, closed Friday evenings and all day Saturdays. It's self service, prices are on the containers, baskets, coolers, etc., place payment in the metal mail box by the gate. Grab a bag, fill it up with delicious fresh produce-your neighborhood almost drive-thru produce stand, organic farm with critters that provide a lot of mostly laughter with their Barnyard Politics. Our Farm Stand offerings vary from day to day depending on what we are harvesting, baking, networking with neighbors that love to grow but just have more than they need, and other produce you have asked for. 

Location: Balloons are blowing in the breeze at the mailbox! We are located three miles east of the Wakulla County Court House at 1067 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Road (Lower Bridge Road), Crawfordville, Florida

Thank you so much for supporting our Farm and our Mission.

At the Farm Stand: 


Acorn squash - $3 each
Farm fresh organic free range eggs - $5 dozen
Onions - $1 each
Oranges - .75 each
Purple Molokai sweet potatoes (completely purple, highest in antioxidants - $1 each
Sweet potatoes, Orange 4 for $3
Tangerines - .50 each or 3 for $1
Vine ripened tomatoes - $1 each or 4 for $3

Pre-Order: Call or text us at 850/274-7690 or send us an email at littleedenheirloomfarm@zoho.com and we'll have your order packed and ready for pickup

Available but not at the Farm Stand: 
Chickweed - $3 bag - great fresh, salads, stir-fry, steamed, stews, etc.,
Romaine lettuce - $3 - $4 head
Shiitake mushrooms - $7 bowl (avg. 1/2 lb)
Turnip greens (no roots) - $3 bunch

Please call, text or email with any questions, thank you so much!

Ron and Annette Layton
Little Eden Heirloom Farm
850/274-7690
Email: littleedenheirloomfarm@zoho.com

Barnyard Politics - Snakes

Our FIRST Little Eden's Barnyard Politics episode:

This was part of the welcome party that greeted us last night after dark. As I drove through the gate and about 20 feet from the front door I saw our cats in a half circle. A 2 foot 6 inch cottonmouth water moccasin. A beautiful but very deadly snake. We also found an oak snake in the aviary. Many more Barnyard Politics episodes to come hopefully on a much lighter note. With our menagerie, there's never a dull moment!