Front 9 Farm

08/21/2026

Great article about the tomato tasting. Come see Jimmy at Howe Meadow tomorrow.

The event features more than 35 tomato varieties, live music, tomato-themed foods and kid-friendly activities at Howe Meadow on Riverview Road.

07/31/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttc80ddqTLo

Most of you know this because I can't stop talking about it. Last fall I got an awesome opportunity to go to Minnesota to film this John Deere commercial. It was pretty much a dream day for me. I got to do a little acting and drive my favorite color tractors all day. Thank you George and Donna for recommending me to the casting agency that led to this. A huge thank you to my wife for encouraging me to do this. She took care of the farm, all the animals and two kids while she was nine months pregnant during our busiest time of year. It had been awhile since I had been on a set and I had a blast. Call me for your next project.

This project was shot in Minnesota, under a union contract with mem...

05/02/2026

Jimmy built this custom truck bed to replace the original, which was quite rusty…
Farmers market ready 👍

05/02/2026

Growth! Come see us tomorrow at the opening day of both our outdoor farmers markets! 9am-12pm

04/19/2026

Pretty sweet tree! This week our *tentative* plan is to start peeling back the 8ft fencing that you can see in the second video, and this tree is within the fencing (at the end of the video). We also plan to rent a dumpster to clear out a bunch of the roofing and other materials from the fallen down barn. We’re in peak planting season but this project is jumping to the top of the to do list because there is an enormous rabbit population living within this area and they keep eating our plants! My beautiful tomatoes plants in the nearby high tunnel have had their stems skinned with those rabbit fangs (last pic). There are so many that while we were out walking tonight one hopped across the roof of the fallen barn! We also have a huge pile of wood/brush we need to burn, which will also allow us to eliminate a ground hog hole that’s been plaguing us for years, so we will see how much progress we make this week…

04/09/2026

Tomatoes planted! Beets and lettuce are growing here as well.

03/23/2026

We transplanted our heated high tunnel with tomatoes two weeks ago. The plants were seeded back in late January and we grew then out under ceramic metal halide lights for 5-6 weeks. We’re very focused on increasing our efficiency so we’ve cut back on the number of early tomatoes we start. We grow just enough to fill our two high tunnels- one heated, one not. We will then root out suckers from those plants to supply ourselves with the about 1,000 field plants we need instead of starting them from seed. The transplanted tomatoes are already starting to push out suckers so we’ll wait until they’re 4-6” and then root them out. We can also fit all the tomatoes and peppers we need under 4 lights which we run for 18 hours per day for 5-6 weeks, and then the lights go off and everything is moved outside to our high tunnel we start heating to 60F. Our plan is to transplant our unheated high tunnel tomatoes this week as long as the forecast doesn’t project lower than mid-20s, which they can survive when double covered. We’ll also pot up the peppers/eggplant/tomatillos into 5” pots which they’ll grow in until the last frost in early May.

03/20/2026

Spring has sprung in the chicken coop. Come see us tomorrow at at Old Trail School from 9-12pm!

03/04/2026

We restock our feeders about every 3rd day, so with the amount of hay we have left we have less than 10 restocks to go before they're off to greener pastures!

03/04/2026

Watering our tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant. We will start transplanting the tomatoes into our heated high tunnel next week. Everyone was happy to see the growing plants… well, not everyone…