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Oak Spring Farm Growing organic produce that nourishes. Delivering weekly produce subscriptions (CSA) to Baltimore County and City. Visit the farm stand on Tuesdays from 1-5pm.

Oak Spring Farm delivers the freshest, organic vegetables and humanely-raised eggs to the Baltimore area in a weekly subscription (CSA) and at the Hereford farmers markets. Our Vision is to educate and inspire our community to spend their food dollars locally to nourish their families, our community and our environment. Our CSA includes a wide variety of delicious Certified Organic produce and truly pastured eggs from happy chickens. Our Farm Fresh produce and pastured ‘handcrafted’ eggs are unmatched; far healthier and tastier than any store bought product. Know your farmer. Know your food.

10/16/2026

Beautiful day to harvest the first of the broccoli! 🥦

Parsley Plant: Final Boss.🌿One plant. Five beautiful, abundant bunches!A little parsley harvesting revelation:Until this...
10/16/2026

Parsley Plant: Final Boss.🌿

One plant. Five beautiful, abundant bunches!

A little parsley harvesting revelation:

Until this year, we’d go through and pick the biggest stalks off each plant, one at a time.

This year? Cross-cut, baby!

It’s worked like a charm. The plants come back more vigorous than before, and harvesting is a breeze. Just cut, shake, and tie.

We plant plenty so we don’t have to struggle for supply in the shoulder seasons. That means a cut-and-drop maintenance harvest from time to time, but that was true with the stalk-by-stalk method as well. Cross-cut just seems to mean each harvest takes half the time.

Next year I think we’ll try wider spacing. We did our usual 4 rows at 6” this year, but the plants really hit their stride after about half of them sloughed off. Apparently parsley loves a little elbow room.

I’m thinking 3 rows at 8” next year. We’ll see if the extra space makes them happier from the jump.

We’ll return to stalk-by-stalk harvesting in the winter, when conserving every little bit of growth the plants work so hard for makes more sense. The rest of the year? Time is our main constraint, so that’s what we’re always trying to conserve, whenever and wherever possible.

Fall finds. Some beautiful shiitakes from some old mushroom logs. 🍄‍🟫 🪵 + a neato leaf 🍁
10/15/2026

Fall finds. Some beautiful shiitakes from some old mushroom logs. 🍄‍🟫 🪵

+ a neato leaf 🍁

10/07/2026

Needed more bins for sweet potato harvest! 🍠 🍠 🍠

09/28/2026

Our greens spinner (converted washing machine) kept getting unbalanced and walking away on us. 🌪️ We swapped the inner tub for an orange basket. Hasn’t budged since! Winter project is getting a new spinner. This one has served us well but is ready for retirement!.

CRITTERS OF THE WEEK - Vol 31. 🐢 Eastern Box Turtle: FRIENDFound cruising through the farm looking extremely autumnal an...
09/24/2026

CRITTERS OF THE WEEK - Vol 3

1. 🐢 Eastern Box Turtle: FRIEND
Found cruising through the farm looking extremely autumnal and minding its own business. Box turtles eat slugs, insects, berries, mushrooms, and all sorts of other things, so we’re happy to have this little tank around.

2. 🐈 Florence: FRIEND / PROFESSIONAL VOLE CONTROL
Very vocal, very opinionated, and very good at hunting. Her specialty is voles, which earns her a permanent place on the friend list. She also seems to believe every field walk Erika takes requires close supervision.

3. 🐛 Celery Looper: FOE
Very cute. Unfortunately, also very interested in our parsley. Celery loopers feed on a pretty wide range of vegetables but I found this one on its namesake.

4. 🐛 Parsnip Webworm: FOE
A very cheerful-looking little caterpillar with less cheerful intentions. Parsnip webworms feed on plants in the carrot family and are especially fond of flower heads and stems. This one was hanging out in the parsley, where it was decidedly unwelcome.

5. 🥚 Leaf-footed Bug Eggs: FOE
That suspiciously perfect little brown line is a row of eggs. Leaf-footed bugs can feed on fruits and vegetables, and finding the eggs before they hatch feels a little like catching somebody in the planning stages of a crime.

6. 🐌 Leopard Slug: FOE
Huge, dramatic, and..unlike some of the other slugs we’ve met..seemingly not very interested in our crops. Leopard slugs eat fungi, decaying organic matter, and living plants too, so we keep an eye on them.

7. 🦟 Crane Flies: MOSTLY NEUTRAL
Two crane flies engaged in important crane fly business on the window screen. Adults generally aren’t much of a concern to crops. We left them to it.

No Hereford Farm Market this Saturday, so we’re bringing the market home.🏡 Come shop with us at Oak Spring Farm this Sat...
09/24/2026

No Hereford Farm Market this Saturday, so we’re bringing the market home.🏡

Come shop with us at Oak Spring Farm this Saturday, Sept. 26 from 9am–1pm. We’ll have plenty of fresh, certified organic vegetables straight from the farm.
LOTS of beautiful greens.

📍 20633 Mount Zion Rd., Freeland, MD 20633

We’d love to see some familiar market faces at the farm!

You can stroll the property. Even snag a raspberry if Adam doesn’t get to them first (he often does). We had a lovely stroll this evening. The first of many perfect fall days! Come join us for another this Saturday!

09/20/2026

Felt like I harvested more swallowtails than parsley. A few of them were molting! 🐛

09/18/2026

I can’t believe this butter! 🧈 🥬
So pretty!

A few snaps of our snips! 🤍🥕We only grew 100 feet of parsnips this year, so they’ll go fast! They’re currently in our 33...
09/18/2026

A few snaps of our snips! 🤍🥕

We only grew 100 feet of parsnips this year, so they’ll go fast! They’re currently in our 33°F cooler, getting a little sweeter before they make their way into CSA shares and to market.

⚠️ Viewer discretion advised on the fourth photo! ⚠️

Parsnip greens should be handled with care. Their sap contains compounds called furanocoumarins that can cause phytophotodermatitis (a skin reaction triggered by exposure to sunlight).

I learned that lesson a few years ago while repairing a hole in the drip tape. I hadn’t bothered with long sleeves or washed up afterward, and ended up with some impressive blisters.

A little reminder that even the sweetest vegetables have a mean streak. 🤍🥕

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20633 Mount Zion Road
Freeland, MD
21053

Opening Hours

Tuesday 1pm - 5pm
Thursday 1pm - 5pm

Telephone

+14436053063

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