Category Archives: Around the Farm

Sweetwater Plants Eyes!

Cut the eye, chuck it, and cover it up…It’s potato planting time! First, we get our seed potatoes,yes they are different from the potatoes on your plate, from Wood Prairie Farm.  Then we chop up each potato into 1.5 ounce … Continue reading →

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Certified Organic Who?

Meet Farm Apprentice Jess: Hey what’s up? I’m Jess. Long story, short. Graduated high school up in CT and went straight to college. Got my bachelors in Exercise Science and realized that I wasn’t feeling it anymore. Took two years … Continue reading →

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The Cover Up

Tuesday, the Sunday of the week at Sweetwater, the farmers and the Associate Director, Yvette, got called in to quickly cover up some veggies.  Even though we didn’t have a “hard freeze” some crops are not tolerant of colder temperatures … Continue reading →

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Do you know her?

Who’s Your Farmer? Farmer Jenise Greetings Farmily! I am so excited to be here at Sweetwater. It is my pleasure to serve such a wonderful community of people nestled smack dab in the middle of Town N Country. I have … Continue reading →

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Let’s Call it a Party

We’ve got short rads, pink rads, long rads, white rads, and black rads.  Even watermelon rads.  Its a radish party over here and they are so good to us. Radishes are a good source of of vitamin C, Potassium, Folate, … Continue reading →

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Torrid Tropics in Wintertime

  Yes, you are probably over talking about the 80 degree weather in December. But in agriculture we gotta talk about it. Even some of our heat tolerant winter crops are succumbing to bolting. We have more successions of crops … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Celery

Our celery is growing up! While it won’t be ready for a little while yet, we thought you’d like to see how it’s coming along. The farmers always get a little tear in their eye when their babies are growing … Continue reading →

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Not Bolting into Winter

Broccoli, cabbage and kohlrabi (all in the Brassica family) are starting to take shape and be ready for harvest.  These plants prefer the cooler winters in Central Florida. Many of the winter crop seed varieties grown at the farm are … Continue reading →

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The Choi-ful Season

With the abundance of various Choi’s this season here are some facts to ponder as it sits on your plate: -Joi Choi as well as Pak Choi, Pak Choy, Bok Choy are all the same crop as Bok Choi (just … Continue reading →

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Lousy with Lettuces

This time of the year vegetables feel the neglect. With cookies, key lime pie, kugel, monkey bread, lasagna, and holiday parties vegetables tend to get kicked to the curb for a month.  Try to stay inspired to keep up your … Continue reading →

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