Rudy’s Roots

03/05/2025

Join our exciting seed staring class April 12th. Hands on learning growing 18 organic plants you start yourself!!! Leave your seedlings here to grow with love in our heated space and pick them up when your ready to plant.

08/16/2024

You can’t win ‘em all 🫣🫠 🍅

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08/14/2024

Farm stand will be out today at 5376 Irish Rd, Grand Blanc 🤗 come get your vegetables!

08/07/2024

We’re getting lots of veggies this week! 🍅🥒🧅

07/20/2024

Loving all the blooms, giant veggies & wildlife we’re getting at the farm 🌺🦋🫑

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06/28/2024

The greenhouse smells of sweet lemon balm 🍋which can take over if you let it. Join us for a class on how to grow, harvest, dry and make lemon balm oil. Details will be posted soon!

06/26/2024

When it’s too hot to work in the greenhouse, we work in the woods. We planted a couple hundred oak and maple seedlings this week!

06/20/2024

This week’s harvest came from just 10 lavender plants. We planted over 400 plants this year…can’t wait to see all that is yet to come!

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06/18/2024

In the spring of 2022, two things happened: 1) my husband ordered our first Keene garlic order, and 2) I started attending a 9 month long Organic Farmer Training program at a local university.

That spring, we laid the plastic fabric, soaker hoses on timers, and hired some young girls who were happy to plant garlic for the first time. Fast forward a few months paired with watering and an unventilated hoop house, we didn't have much of a harvest.

By the fall of 2022, I had learned so much about planting, harvesting and curing garlic at school and felt even more confident with our Keene order. We planted our fall harvest and come 2023 we were very pleased with the outcome. So pleased that we said we would be happy growing large amounts of garlic.

For 2024, we planted a little over 700 bulbs, 75% of them from our Keene harvest and the remaining from a family member who has been growing organic garlic for 20+ years. We also purchased the fertilizer and applied 2 applications to one of our rows. The other row of garlic we did not apply fertilizer and wanted to show the difference in growth. Not only was the unfertilized garlic smaller, some didn’t even sprout.

So, from two small farmers in Michigan going through the organic process, we want to thank those who make quality products, like Keene. Growing Keene has given us the confidence we can do it too.

06/13/2024

Peppers, garlic scapes & lavender 🚜

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06/11/2024

You’re probably thinking, “hm, that’s an odd picture.” It sure is. If you look closely, you can see all the ants covering the clothing I quickly tore off after discovering I was covered in them 😬 I’ll spare you the camera footage of me running pantsless across the yard 🤪 on a brighter note, if you have any tips on how to keep ants out of the cucumbers, I’d gladly take them!