PondeRosie Farms

06/01/2026

Liam wanted to help his LaLa give the squash "a baff." Lala is thankful for the help!

We picked over 80 lbs of squash at the farm yesterday, and that's a lot of "baffs" to get through.

05/31/2026

These girls just needed a little sunshine☀️🌸🏵🌻🌼

05/31/2026

Today, we weed🌱🌱🌱🌱😮‍💨 And, it's just about as terrible as you would imagine after six days of rain.

05/30/2026

05/28/2026

Our grandmother Rosa bought produce for many years from Samuel and John Mark's father Mr. Sawyer. We're happy to know and support his sons. Their commitment to innovation and community is inspiring🍄🥬🌱

Less than one acre. Endless innovation.

At Aquality Farms in Anniston, fresh food is being grown in a sustainable way. Inside a 6,000-square-foot warehouse, they produce gourmet mushrooms, hydroponic lettuce and microgreens that nourish grocery stores, restaurants, farmers markets and their local community every single week.

Learn more about how Aquality Farms is redefining local agriculture and why community remains at the heart of everything they do on the Sweet Grown Alabama blog: https://www.sweetgrownalabama.org/posts/2026/05/04/positive-produce

05/28/2026

Farm update:

The blueberries are MASSIVE🫐🫐🫐

Stacey picked 10 gallons of squash but didn't take any pics because she is a baby and acts like she can't tote two five gallon buckets and an iPhone at the same time🫢 I mean, dang, Stace...think of the media team (your sister.) You picked 75 squash while she was up the hill eating all those giant blueberries and didn't take a single photo? It's like it didn't happen.

Meanwhile, the flowers are flowering while they dream of the sun after 5 days of rain🌧🌧🌧 The first ranunculus have bloomed, and they're beautiful😍

After the blueberry feast, Michelle transplanted some black beauty eggplant🍆🍆🍆 and secured 200 feet of cucumber vines to fencing in an experiment to have the cucumbers grow vertically this season 🥒🥒🥒 Then, she weeded a row of pink-eye purple-hull peas. Stacey spent the last part of the evening gleefully pointing out all the cucumber tendrils Michelle had missed.

Afterward, the girls hosed the mud off of each other, gossiped until sunset, and adjourned🐷

05/25/2026

05/23/2026

Our first cut flowers headed to market in the a.m.☀️🌸🏵🌱😍

We supplemented our zinnias, cosmos, roses, and black-eyed Susans with hydrangea, petunia, purple bee balm and fern from our friend Marilyn of Swan Cottage in Alexandria to make these beautiful arrangements!

Market hours for Saturday, May 23rd are 8 a.m. until noon at 501 Alexandria Road, SW.

Hope to see you there!

05/17/2026

Farm update: the blueberries look great and are our closest produce to harvesting time🫐🫐🫐

We also have baby squash coming on🌱🌱🌱.

More cosmos have bloomed, along with a few zinnias in our raised beds🏵🌸🏵🌸

It's beginning to look like summer😍☀️

05/15/2026

Market info for Saturday, May 16th, 8 a.m. until noon, Jacksonville Farmers Market, 501 Alexandria Road, SW, Jacksonville, Alabama:

While we didn't open for casserole preorders this week, we will be offering our Spinach & Strawberry Salads with your choice of honey mustard or raspberry vinaigrette dressing (in side and entree sizes, with or without an add-on of chicken salad.) These can be reserved here if you haven't yet preordered. We will have a limited number of extras on hand at market.

We will also have a few Chicken Pot Pie, Shepherd's Pie, and Chicken & Rice casseroles available along with bacon jam, chicken salad and pimento cheese.