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Daisy's Little Acre Daisy's Little Acre grows and sells high quality flowers and vegetable plants. No pesticides or growth regulators used.

10/14/2026

Just a heads up! Due to the forecasted freeze Saturday and Sunday nights I will be closing Saturday afternoon and reopening Tuesday morning after everything is put back out.

A friend of mine wished me a happy National Farmers Day this morning. I didn't know it existed till today and it happens...
10/12/2026

A friend of mine wished me a happy National Farmers Day this morning. I didn't know it existed till today and it happens to coenside with Indigenous Peoples Day. The Indigenous People were the original farmers of this land and they taught us how to farm and stay alive when we arrived here in America. Upon further research it turns out that 2026 is the year of the Woman Farmer!! So as were winding down and putting the farms to bed for the winter I want to take a moment to send a shout out to my fellow friends and woman farmers Evelyn Hatch at Breezy Acres and Tammy Sapowsky at Sapowsky's (McKinstry Market at Sapowsky's). I hope you've had a great season.

Hanging mums and hanging mum bags $15. 2 Carver St, Granby MA. I have a good selection of late season mum hangers that a...
10/11/2026

Hanging mums and hanging mum bags $15. 2 Carver St, Granby MA. I have a good selection of late season mum hangers that are just starting to open.

10/10/2026

People who never farmed a mountain hillside think a field gets cleared of rocks once. Ask anybody who grew up on one, and they will tell you the rocks grew back every spring. šŸŖØ

They were not imagining it. Look at what is happening under that field. Every winter, water in the soil freezes, and ice tends to form underneath the stones, because rock lets the cold travel down through it faster than soil does. Water expands as it freezes, and as that ice grows it pushes up on the rock above it. When the thaw comes, loose soil and water slump into the gap left underneath, so the rock never settles all the way back down. Freeze, push, thaw, fill. Over many winters, a stone buried a foot deep slowly ratchets its way to the surface. Scientists call it frost heave. Mountain farmers just called it spring. ā„ļø

So every year, before the plowing could start, families picked rock. Children walked the rows with buckets and sacks. Fathers pried out the big ones with a mattock and rolled them onto a sled. And all of it went to the edge of the field, onto a pile that got bigger every single year for as long as the family worked that ground.

That is why, if you walk up an old hollow today, deep in what is now woods, you can still find long rock piles and rough stone rows running through the trees. They are not walls anybody planned. They are generations of springtime labor, stacked up one armload at a time, marking where a family once had a field. šŸŒ²

Every one of those rocks was lifted by somebody's hands.

If you ever picked rock as a child, you were doing the same work your people had done on that ground for a hundred years.

10/09/2026

Is the big maple shading your yard a sugar maple, or the tree that only looks like one? This is a good week to find out, while the leaves are still on.

Pick a leaf and snap its stem. John Woodmansee of Purdue Extension says a Norway maple oozes a milky latex sap when the leaf stem is pinched or broken, while native maples like the sugar maple have clear sap. UConn Extension calls that white sap the trait that sets Norway maple apart from the native maples, and lists Norway maple as an invasive tree.

The leaves give a second clue later this fall. UConn says Norway maple leaves turn yellow and often hang on longer than those of native maples. šŸ

10/08/2026

Before anybody could buy a tomato in December, mountain women had already worked out how to have fresh ones at Thanksgiving. It started on the night the frost was coming. šŸ…

Everybody knew the signs. A still, clear evening in October, the stars sharp, the air going cold fast after sundown. That was the night the garden got stripped. Every tomato left on the vines, no matter how hard and green, got picked into baskets before the frost could turn the plants black.

Then came the newspaper. Each green tomato was wrapped on its own in a square of old newsprint and packed in a single layer in a crate or a box, then carried down to the cellar, under a bed, or into some cool, dark corner of the house. And there, slowly, over weeks, they ripened. A few at a time they would turn orange and then red, and every few days somebody would go through the crate, unwrap the ones that were ready, and pull out any that had gone soft before they spoiled the rest.

It works because a ripening tomato gives off a gas called ethylene that hurries along its neighbors, and the paper holds a little of it close while keeping each tomato from bruising or rotting against the next. Nobody in those kitchens knew the word ethylene. They knew it worked, and that was enough. šŸ“°

Those November tomatoes were never as good as one off the vine in August. But a red tomato sliced on the table at Thanksgiving, in a house with no electricity and no store nearby, felt like a small miracle.

Children were often put in charge of checking the crate, and finding the first red one under the paper was a small event worth announcing to the whole house.

Somebody in your family stood in a cold garden in the dark, racing the frost. That is how you ended up remembering tomatoes in November.

09/23/2026

Luna moths spend the winter tucked inside cocoons wrapped in fallen leaves. When we rake, shred, blow, or remove every leaf, we may unknowingly remove them too.

Leave a layer of leaves in garden beds and quiet cornersā€”it could be sheltering next seasonā€™s moths.

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6in Hardy Mums $2.50ea! Hangers and hanging bags $15ea! 2 Carver St, Granby, MA. Quantities and colors are limited, shop...
09/20/2026

6in Hardy Mums $2.50ea! Hangers and hanging bags $15ea! 2 Carver St, Granby, MA. Quantities and colors are limited, shop early for best selection.

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