The Eaton Farm

The Eaton Farm Located near Madison, IN, the Eaton Farm is a small family farm dedicated to producing a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, and pasture-raised meats.

The farm lies on a wide ridge with many narrow ridges branching off and sloping down to wooded hollows. On the ridges, crops are carefully cultivated, while the steeper slopes are reserved for haying and pasture for the farm animals. Animals are rotated in order to provide them with fresh, clean pasture, as well as to help enrich the soil. Our farm offerings are available through our CSA programs,

our buying club, the Good Eaton Club, and year-round in Cincinnati at the Hyde Park Farmers' Market.

🚨 Surprise harvest alert! 🚨 BEETS are here! We weren’t expecting this crop to be ready until next week, but they sized u...
05/31/2026

🚨 Surprise harvest alert! 🚨 BEETS are here! We weren’t expecting this crop to be ready until next week, but they sized up enough to harvest for today’s ! 🥳 We’ll have a nice selection of red, golden, and candy-striped beets.

We’re excited to see everyone back on Hyde Park Square for Opening Day! Since it’s also Mother’s Day, why not take this...
05/10/2026

We’re excited to see everyone back on Hyde Park Square for Opening Day! Since it’s also Mother’s Day, why not take this opportunity to pickup some wonderful local foods to prepare for all the moms of your life? We are loaded down with fresh veggies: lettuce, radishes, salad turnips, snap peas (green, purple, yellow), asparagus, green garlic, kale, baby Swiss chard, onions, sweet potatoes, and celery. We restocked our grassfed beef, pork, and chicken this week in anticipation of Opening Day and we have some fun new items in the freezers: pastured hot dogs, sandwich ham, and our lard is now available in a glass jar! 🥳
We’ve got so many eggs this week that we’re referring to our market trailer as “The Nest” 🪺 😂 😱 Plan to feature our eggs in a special dish for Mom soon. Some ideas include quiche, Dutch baby pancakes, or spring greens fritatta. We are also still offering our spring egg sale to help stock the fridge for all your Mothers’ Day cooking! 🍳 👩‍🍳 🍰

See you at Hyde Park Winter Farmers' Market today!
04/26/2026

See you at Hyde Park Winter Farmers' Market today!

Locust Blossom SpecialFor a time in late April, this farm is the best place to be in the world. I cannot convey this con...
04/26/2026

Locust Blossom Special
For a time in late April, this farm is the best place to be in the world. I cannot convey this convincingly to everyone, but that does not mean I harbor any doubt. I have not seen the sunrise in New South Wales, or the mist rising between Alpine peaks, but when the locusts are blooming, I only want to be right here. This year the blooms are spectacular. The locusts that encircle our little hillside clearings and fields are draped in the sweet clustering flowers, tumbling over the branch tips so thickly to cast a filtered sunlight that is perfect. The bees are busy greedily carting off their nectar, and for a time, the thorns are forgotten.
The hope of this time returning, and the memory of past blooms, is what gets me through the long gray slog of winter. Amid the perfumed air, multiflora rose and honeysuckle perform their variations on the theme of Spring, while the tulip poplars stand festooned in an arial beauty that, to my knowledge, was never attempted by any of the Dutch masters.
In the more domesticated parts of the landscape, the potatoes are in the ground, and the brassicas are planted. The first outdoor planting of lettuce is transplanted, and the onion seedlings should get set out this week. The early seeding of beets and carrots is up, but disappointing, as it only received one intense, hard rain directly after seeding, which then dried, crusting the soil and leaving the little carrot seeds struggling under a thin layer of rain-packed earth. It will make a half-crop probably, but it necessitated planting another patch. There is a new litter of curious piglets, and raven-black calves napping on sunny slopes while their mamas graze greening pastures. The first group of broiler chickens is ready to go to the processor soon, and the second group is out of the brooder and on pasture.
If eggs are any indication, the hens enjoy spring, too! There are plenty of them and we hope everyone will stock up for our absence next week! Winter Market will be open 5/3, but we will be taking off that Sunday in preparation for Opening Day on Hyde Park Square 5/10. So be sure to stop by our booth at MadTree today and plan to shop for two weeks. Our offerings include lettuce, kale, green garlic and onions, salad turnips, celery, radishes, asparagus (it goes fast!), yellow onions, sweet potatoes, pork, beef, chicken and turkey. We'll also have a small variety of plant starts for your garden: heirloom tomatoes, chard, okra, and lettuce.
We hope you are enjoying this time of year and are finding something in particular that is special!
Sincerely,
Jerry, Liz, Silas, Ira, and Abe

Spring farmer lunch! 🌱🌱🌱
04/14/2026

Spring farmer lunch! 🌱🌱🌱

Easter may be over but the eggs are not!!! Naturally, the market break coincided with a record-breaking seasonal increas...
04/12/2026

Easter may be over but the eggs are not!!! Naturally, the market break coincided with a record-breaking seasonal increase from our hens. 🙄🤪😂We’ve talked about this before, but this truly is an EGGistential crisis. 😱😱😱🥚🥚🥚 Stop by and help us move some eggs! Buy two, five, or eight dozen and take advantage of our egg sale!
While eggs are taking center stage today, greens and other fresh spring veggies aren’t far behind! Tons of lettuce, radishes, spinach, kale, salad turnips, celery, green onions, onions, sweet potatoes, and butternut. Oh, and the first harvest of asparagus is ready, available while supplies last!

Green Up🌱Of all the words in the modern lexicon that get co-opted, marketed, twisted, and stretched, “green” surely rank...
03/28/2026

Green Up
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Of all the words in the modern lexicon that get co-opted, marketed, twisted, and stretched, “green” surely ranks near the top of the list. Certified green engines, green power plants, green household products, green tourism: so many products, ideas, and services all green-washed, dried, and paid for with green-backs.
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As the world argues about what does and does not constitute “green”, farmers know green like some cultures know snow. The various shades of green can be indicative of health or disease, adequacy or scarcity; a deck of green color swatches that corresponds specifically to each crop in its season and maturity.
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In the late winter and early spring, I am looking for green. When it starts, the almost imperceptible enlivening of the dull, over-exposed brown blades of last year’s grass progresses rapidly to a full green up, and then explosive growth. Fescue and orchardgrass lag a bit, but the short-statured bluegrass is the first to hit its stride. Cover crops, such as ryegrass or wheat or cereal rye, make tremendous growth as the soil warms and the light strengthens after the equinox. In the cold, wet hold of winter, hope might grow a bit dormant, but faith for the renewal of spring remains. Now, on a bright, still bracing morning, I can walk among the very things hoped for and feel grateful for the return of the grass, the birdsong, and the glossy-black calves bounding around in the pasture.
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In other, less philosophic news: market will take its annual spring break on 4/5 due for Easter. So it’s especially important to visit us and all your favorite vendors at MadTree tomorrow, 3/29 for a big stock up. We will be well-provisioned with eggs, lettuce (did we mention that we have a lot?), spinach, kale, green onions, rapini, onions, sweet potatoes, butternut, pork, beef, chicken and turkey. We have a very limited amount of small hams for Easter. If you are interested, please reserve one via the webstore (closes at 8:30pm this evening) or stop by market and see what is available.
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We are very thankful for your support each week, and are grateful to have such a dependable group of customers who continue to shop through the tough winter season. Here's to greener pastures ahead!
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Sincerely,
Jerry, Liz, Silas, Ira, and Abe
The Eaton Farm
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P.S. Speaking of green, our lettuce crop responded to the increasing sunlight and yielded abundantly this week! Take advantage with our spring sale this Sunday at MadTree.

It’s a good day to stop by and load up on all the heavy things! We recommend filling your pockets full of onions—they m...
03/15/2026

It’s a good day to stop by and load up on all the heavy things! We recommend filling your pockets full of onions—they make a great ballast on windy days. Other weighty options include large roasts, whole chickens, spare ribs, and Easter hams, all tied down with a rope sausage. ⚓️ 🧅 🍖💨 😁
If you’re looking for less substantial and wispy offerings, you’ll be happy to know that we harvested the first fresh greens of the season! 🥬Checkout our frilly lettuces and kale, barely-there green onions, and ephemeral bok choy rapini. Just be sure to hang on tight in the gusts!
P.S. can you tell that the wind advisory is on our minds today? 😂 💨 😬

It’s time for again today. We look forward to seeing you in the Barrel Room at MadTree from 10am to 1pm. Stop by and sa...
03/08/2026

It’s time for again today. We look forward to seeing you in the Barrel Room at MadTree from 10am to 1pm. Stop by and say 👋 and stock up on all your favorite pastured meats, eggs, and veggies. Pictured here is yesterday’s pasture move for the hens. The sun is returning and pastures are responding by starting to grow again. 🌱 ☀️ 🐓

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6880 N Scotts Ridge Road
Madison, IN
47250

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+18128396452

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