Octagon Acres

06/20/2026

🌱First Conneaut Farmers’ Market of the Season🌱! 9-1 at the Moose 🫎. 280 Park Ave, Conneaut, Ohio on the bluff. Visit Patrick and friends there. Sign the 🚫🐝NO Data Center Petitions🐝🚫. Find a few more cool seedlings for your garden. 🌱🌱🌱

06/19/2026

⚡️Newsflash ⚡️ the Conneaut Farmers’ Market starts tomorrow! 9-1 at the Moose Lodge (280 Park Ave) in Conneaut on the bluff!

Patrick will be there with 🌱certified organic 🌱 seedlings, including
🍅cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, shosh*to peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, golden berries, sunflowers 🌻 and new this year 🥒Cucamelons 🍈! He will also have some culinary herbs and edible flowers like calendula and nasturtium!

All seedlings are buy one get one free and grown with love at Octagon Acres 😘🫣🍅

06/14/2026

We are looking forward to the market today and thankful for the lovely breeze this morning!

We will have certified organic asparagus ($6/ #) and a seedling sale!! (buy one get one)- that’s 2 🌱🌱organic garden starts for $3!!

We will ALSO have petitions to sign for those CONCERNED about DATA CENTER development in our county.

Headed out to pick more asparagus🥬 now and we will see you shortly on beautiful Bridge Street!

The opening day of the 2025 farmers market season starts this Sunday, June 8th, from 10-2. The rundown of vendors is as follows: A&D Gardens, Sassys Sourdough, Farm 153, Modular Mushrooms, Grand River Blooms, Bucks Poultry, Coltman Apiary, Grandmas Jams, Jellies and Fudge, Windy Hill Farm, and Valley View Farm. Stop and see some of your favorite farmers and new members.

06/06/2026

This rainbow joined us just as we headed out to pick up the square bales this afternoon! Beautiful! 🏳️‍🌈🌈💜

05/31/2026

Farm kids have a lot of responsibility. They also have a lot of freedom.

05/28/2026

Certified organic seedlings available at the farm for your gardening delight!

Please see previous post for a list of cool and funky varieties. 🤓

All plants are $3 each.
If we are home and available we are happy to help. If not, please do your thing!

Happy growing! 🌱🌱🌱🌱

05/28/2026

Happy chicks checking out their pasture.

05/26/2026

Octagon Acres certified organic seedlings are available multiple places for your gardening pleasure:

🌱Erie Co+op in Erie
🌱Orlando Brothers Golden Dawn in Conneaut
🌱Octagon Acres - 6312 Hatches Corners Rd in Monroe Township just south of Conneaut,
🌱Harbor Gardens in the Ashtabeautiful Harbor

Prices at the farm are $3 each. If we’re here and available we’re happy to walk you through the varieties. If not- self-serve set-up is available.

Lots of the following are available:
🍅Tomatoes- LOtS of variety! heirlooms, hi-looms, and a few old school hybrids
🌱Cherry tomatoes- sungold, white cherry, Black cherry, sweetie cherry
☀️ Ground cherries and golden berries!
🥒Cucumbers- lemon, silver slicer, spacemaster DMR, marketmore
🥬Kale- lacinato
🌱Culinary herbs- basil, Thai basil, sage, dill, cilantro
🫑Peppers- King of the North, Beaver dam, Early Jalapeño, Shosh*to
🌻Flowers- sunflowers (sonneblume, lemon queen, red, teddy bear), Hollyhock (black and Chattermix double), strawberry calendula, calendula, marigolds for integrated pest management (and beauty)

Weather looks good and if you’re like us, you are more than ready. Happy growing! Here’s to a bountiful season. 🍅🥒🌱🫑🥬🌻🌻🌻

05/24/2026

Spring into summer! We have plant starts and this is the weekend to do it!

05/24/2026

My young assistant and I are at Fat Sally’s Warehouse on Laird St. in Ashtabeautiful today until 3pm. We have a wide variety of organic seedlings for your garden!! 🌱🌻🌱🌻🌱