Thorntree Farm

Thorntree Farm We grow a wide variety of fresh, nutritious vegetables for Northeast Oklahoma without the use of syn

When I’m walking down the ends of the rows and bending over to turn on the irrigation lines, sometimes I remember to loo...
08/28/2020

When I’m walking down the ends of the rows and bending over to turn on the irrigation lines, sometimes I remember to look up and see this. 🌤🌱

Okra is beautiful and amazing. It doesn’t make money and you need gloves to harvest it but we can’t not grow it. This va...
08/21/2020

Okra is beautiful and amazing. It doesn’t make money and you need gloves to harvest it but we can’t not grow it. This variety from Tennessee is called Aunt Hettie’s Red. We didn’t seed it until the end of May and it’s already 8-9 feet tall.

Didn’t think about it at the time when I was ordering seeds, but we’re growing a lot of the stripe-y colored vegetable v...
06/22/2020

Didn’t think about it at the time when I was ordering seeds, but we’re growing a lot of the stripe-y colored vegetable varieties this summer. Annina eggplant, Centercut squash, Blush cherry tomatoes. 🌈 @ Thorntree Farm

Thanks to everyone who placed an order for our special Memorial Day weekend delivery! Regular ordering starts this week ...
05/25/2020

Thanks to everyone who placed an order for our special Memorial Day weekend delivery! Regular ordering starts this week with a variety of beautiful spring produce available to Grove and surrounding areas. Live in Grove and interested in receiving a weekly list of the veggies that we’re harvesting? Sign up for our mailing list at the link in our profile.

Tulsa, did you hear? The farmers’ market has a tentative opening date of Saturday, June 6! Things will look a little different as we take precautions around social distancing, but we can’t wait to see all your (masked) faces in Kendall Whittier!

The calendula we interplanted with our summer squash has started blooming! We’ll see if it helps deter pests. If not, it...
05/24/2020

The calendula we interplanted with our summer squash has started blooming! We’ll see if it helps deter pests. If not, it’s pretty (and medicinal!). Happy Sunday, friends.

Hey Grove friends! In response to the increased precautions being taken due to the coronavirus, we have created an onlin...
05/20/2020

Hey Grove friends! In response to the increased precautions being taken due to the coronavirus, we have created an online farmstand to offer weekly home delivery OR on-farm pick-up of produce. For more information and to sign up, visit this link: https://airtable.com/shrhCxAiICP7fAE9w

Tulsa, we are in process of constructing a mobile cooler and hope to be able to offer a similar service when that is completed. If the market hasn’t opened back up by then. Have you written the mayor to ask him to let the farmers’ market operate? https://www.cityoftulsa.org/government/mayor-of-tulsa/contact-mayor-bynum/

My very excellent mother has come to the farm many times over the past month to help out while my hand is recovering (th...
05/11/2020

My very excellent mother has come to the farm many times over the past month to help out while my hand is recovering (that’s her in the hat planting tomatoes), and we are very grateful. Our veggies can now be certified “mom-grown...” And both our mothers instilled in us early on a love for good food and healthy living that put us on the path to where we are today. Thanks, moms!

Hurry up and ripen!!
05/03/2020

Hurry up and ripen!!

Hailstorm! 😰🌨We had a brief but intense storm blow through last week as we were nearing the end of a few days spent tran...
04/27/2020

Hailstorm! 😰🌨

We had a brief but intense storm blow through last week as we were nearing the end of a few days spent transplanting eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes. This is what most of the plants look like afterwards... We’ve been waiting to see how the plants recover but I still can’t tell. Some have died and some look like they might make it. Any experienced farmers out there have advice? Should we start another round of plants or can young seedlings survive damage to their leaves like that?

It’s not May yet (😅😳) but already I’m thinking of these words of Wendell Berry... “Farmers begin every year with a vision of perfection. And every year, in the course of the seasons and the work, this vision is relentlessly whittled down to a real result–by human frailty and fallibility, by the mortality of creatures, by pests and diseases, by the weather. The crop year is a long struggle, ended invariably not by the desired perfection but by the need to accept something less than perfection as the best that could be done.” @ Grove, Oklahoma

Hi folks! This is my new look for the next few weeks! If you missed the post in our story, I severed a tendon in one of ...
04/13/2020

Hi folks! This is my new look for the next few weeks! If you missed the post in our story, I severed a tendon in one of my fingers on March 20th while I was working on building a mobile cooler for transporting our produce. I’ll be wearing this splint until early May and with physical therapy expect to regain full use of my hand by mid-June. Up to this point, since Maggie has a full-time job off-farm, the daily management of the market garden has largely been a one-man operation. Now that I’m incapacitated, our productivity has slowed significantly. We’re pressing on as best we can, with Maggie jumping in to be my right-hand man (literally), but the reality is that there are many tasks that I simply can’t do one-handed, and the tasks that I can still do are going much slower than normal. Before the accident happened, it had just been announced that the farmers’ market would close temporarily due to COVID-19, so we were looking into alternative options for continuing to get our produce to customers in Tulsa, but now, with my injury, the truth is that we’re not sure what we’re going to be capable of for the next little bit. We’ve already lost a lot of crucial time just in the last few weeks (Spring is the busiest time of year for a vegetable farm!) and won’t be back to normal for a while yet. All that said! During this time of global crisis, a lot of people are starting to think about the importance of building resilient local food systems, and we are feeling our responsibility to do the small part that we can (woefully small!) to help feed our community. It’s frustrating not to be operating at peak capacity right now. We will let you know here as soon as we have any information about how we will be selling produce this season. Thanks to all who have reached out expressing interest and support. @ Grove, Oklahoma

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69041 E. 290 Road
Grove, OK
74344

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9am - 5pm

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Regenerative Agriculture in Northeast Oklahoma

Welcome to Thorntree Farm! We’re David and Maggie. Neither of us grew up on a farm, but through our interest in good food and healthy living, we became passionate about regenerative agriculture. We started Thorntree Farm in 2019 to grow fresh, delicious produce for our community—without the use of toxic pesticides or synthetic fertilizers. Although we are not certified organic by the USDA, we follow the standards laid out in the National Organic Program and practice farming techniques that build soil, promote ecosystem health, and produce nutrient-dense vegetables, including cover crops, minimal tillage, crop rotation, mulch, soil remineralization, and integrated pest management. You can find our produce at the Tulsa Farmers’ Market.