We are a family farm growing produce organically in our backyard. We grow vegetables and fruits organically on our 1/3 acre property in Silver Lake.
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Selling our produce through our online store with farm pick up and at farmers markets in North Manchester and Warsaw. During the spring we sell vegetable and herb plants including rare heirloom tomatoes. In- Season produce including heirloom varieties.
You can order fresh produce from us and other local farmers. Produce is then delivered to your door on Thursday!
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It’s Chili season, add some heat with our hot peppers, on sale now! Poblano for a mild heat and Hatch Chilies for a spicy kick
This shop local, organically grown produce for your Labor Day Cookout. You’ll find us at Wabash Farmers Market with…….
Tomatoes 🍅 Lettuce 🥬
Sweet Peppers 🫑 Cherry Tomatoes
Hot Peppers 🌶 Carrots 🥕
Onions 🧅
New this week: Winter Squash ( Acorn, Butternut and Spaghetti Squash) and Ginger Gold Apples 🍏
In fresh herbs: Thai Basil 🌿, Lemon basil, Vanilla Basil, Rosemary ( great on steaks!), Parsley, Lemon Balm, Dill, Sage ( amazing paired with winter squash)
Giant Jalapeños perfect for stuffing! You can find them at Wabash Farmers Market tomorrow from 8- Noon.
It’s Tomato hornworm season. These little
* #%!$* #! can defoliate a tomato plant in the matter of days.
If they get to full grown stage they will drop to the ground, make a large brown chrysalis just below the soil. Next spring the moth hatches, lays eggs and new caterpillars emerge. While I’ve never seen the moth, we have found the giant chrysalis in the ground while ripping up tomato plants in the fall. This is why crop rotation is important! Keep the moths guessing where your tomato plants are. 😏
Growing up my Grandpa Larry ran a truck patch in Warsaw, In. He had a dog named Sadie. She was a great dog in many ways, a mutt rescue. She loved running in the garden. Her favorite thing was to eat tomato hornworms. She would go out to the garden spend all day eating the worms. So we never had to worry about them. Unfortunately, she passed away several years ago, of old age and I have yet seen a dog that loves to eat hornworms. If you are lucky enough to have chickens, they will happily eat these fat, juicy worms.
For the rest of us growing tomatoes without a “Sadie” or chickens, here’s a few good ways to get rid of these pests:
Organic sprays: BT (bacillus thuringius)
Spinosaid
Pick them off with your finger and smash them with your foot.
Nick’s favorite* Use the worms as target practice with your airsoft gun. * Warning* you will find bb’s in tomatoes and possibly an angry wife. 🙃
Fun Fact! Tomato hornworms glow under a black light. Menards sells flashlights with a black light. Get the kids involved for a night hunt!
Wabash Farmers Market Saturday 8- Noon. Shop local, eat local. So what can you expect from DenneyFarms?
Harvested from our Farm:
Red, Yellow and Green tomatoes,
Green beans, Red potatoes, onions, garlic scapes, cucumbers, zucchini, Bibb head lettuce.
Herb plants: Lavender, Rosemary, a variety of mints, thyme, tarragon, toothache plant, Basil
Fresh cut herbs: Thai basil, Italian basil, Vanilla basil, parsley, dill, rosemary, thyme, Applemint, calendula flowers 🌸
We will also have Peaches 🍑 and
Southern Indiana Cantaloupes 🍈
It’s been a rough year for anyone trying to grow a garden. Too cold to start, then too hot, bad storms, than no rain, bugs, ugh bugs! By this point your done. Whatever you get out of tomatoes and peppers and who cares about the rest, right?
Well don’t give up the second half of the growing season is upon us. This half less stressful and more enjoyable.
Why? The garden has already been prepped, from your spring plantings. Plants like tomatoes, pepepers, eggplant, watermelon are already planted and will soon be producing. All the hard work of getting a garden going is already done. Why not tuck in a few new plants where the radishes and lettuce have gone to seed?
Here is a list of plants that can still be seeded NOW! These will be harvestable in the Fall.
Broccoli 🥦. Cabbage 🥬. Cauliflower
Green beans 🫘. Zucchini Summer squash
Cucumbers 🥒 Carrots 🥕. Beets
Green onions. Lettuce 🥬. Kale 🥬
Swiss chard.
* This information has been given to us from talking to a generation that grew up without grocery stores, fast food, or door delivery service ( okay, well maybe not the last one. They did invent door delivery with Milk straight from the farm) So thank you, for your wise words! ☺️
(Picture is of green beans that just came up, lettuce planted last week and carrots who haven’t shown their faces yet.)
It’s been 18 days since we’ve had measurable rain! We have automated irrigation, but it doesn’t compare to what the rain provides. We are so thankful for the rain, we don’t even care that we have to stop harvesting for a little bit. So what will we have at Wabash Farmers Market tomorrow?
From our farm:
Green beans. Onions 🧅 Red potatoes
Head Lettuce 🥬. Salad mix 🥗. Cucumbers 🥒. Green tomatoes. Vine ripened tomatoes 🍅 Hot peppers 🌶
Garlic scapes. Italian basil 🌿. Thai basil 🌿
Vanilla basil 🌿. Parsley 🌿. Sage. Rosemary
Herb plants 🪴 including Rosemary and Lavender
We will also have: Georgia cantaloupes 🍈
South Carolina Peaches 🍑.
Tennessee tomatoes 🍅 Michigan Sweet Cherries 🍒
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An organic pest spray that anyone can make from common ingredients easily grown in a kitchen garden! 🙌
This week on Herb Talk……. Cilantro. A highly sought after herb in the summer, yet grows better in cooler weather.
To have a steady supply of cilantro all summer long, plant seeds every two weeks. Once cilantro bolts (flowers) let it go. The flowers provide food for beneficial insects. The seeds once dried are the herb: Coriander. The seeds can be harvested to use or let them reseed for a new crop of cilantro.
We plant cilantro in one bed. Continuous let it reseed, never have to plant again. Cilantro loves cooler weather. We get a nice crop of cilantro in April/ May then again in the Fall.
When you find out the seed company no longer offers your favorite Romaine lettuce, you start saving seed on lettuce.
Typically lettuce seed is cheap and so we don’t see a reason to save seed. However every year since we started, seed companies pull varieties we love to grow. For some “New and Improved” variety which to be honest most of the time don’t measure up. It’s frustrating!
We were going to wait until we could get Southern Indiana cantaloupes, but it’s been hot. So, Nick went and got Georgia cantaloupes. We grabbed one at random and cut it up, before we could finish typing this it had all been eaten. Nick also got some South Carolina peaches (and ate three on the drive home) and Tennessee tomatoes (since ours don’t want to ripen just yet). Nick will bring these to Wabash Farmers Market.
From our farm we harvested: Premium Salad mix, head lettuce, garlic scapes, fresh onions, herb plants, and freshly cut Rosemary, parsley, basil, and applemint.
A watch pot never boils. Evidently that goes for ripening tomatoes. We keep watching for ripening and the tomatoes keep getting bigger!
Happy Summer Solstice!
“The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” - Galileo
May the sun and rain give you bountiful harvests. ☺️
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Happy Father’s Day!
Herb talk this week…… How to harvest Basil, video. This works for all varieties of basil. Lemon, Italian, Sweet basil, Thai, Blue Spice basil etc.
With this hot weather our strawberries are ripening faster than we can pick.
We have several quarts of jam berries for sale https://www.localline.ca/denney-farms.
These berries are great for making jam, freezing for winter or making strawberry lemonade shake ups. The strawberries were picked last week and kept in a cooler. They still have great flavor, but some maybe soft. Our strawberries are organically grown and picked by Nick Denney.
The Curly Q freaks are back, Garlic Scapes Season! These delicious, immature garlic flowers only come once a year. Chop ‘em and toast ‘em add to a salad, mix with butter for garlic butter or our favorite Garlic Scape Pesto. We love this pesto so much I always freeze a couple batches for winter.
If your growing hard neck garlic here’s how to harvest scapes. Grab the scape close to the leaves and gently pull, they will snap off.
This Saturday is a Wabash Farmers Market you don’t want to miss! Why? The gardens are starting to really produce. Here’s what we will have this week……
Strawberries 🍓
Premium Spring Salad Mix 🥗
Romaine lettuce 🥬
Cucumbers 🥒
Zucchini
Head Lettuce 🥬
Radishes
Green Onions
*New this week* Garlic Scapes
Herb plants 🪴
Let’s Talk herbs. Herbs are my favorite plants to grow. So many different scents, tastes and uses. We get a lot of questions on how to grow, harvest, and preserve herbs. So I would like to start a new weekly post highlighting a different herb.
This Week: Mint
An easy to grow and sometimes invasive. So many varieties, I hear about new ones every year: Applemint (pictured), Spearmint, Peppermint, Mojito mint, Chocolate mint, strawberry mint, orange mint etc.
Most people use it for teas. It dries easily, just cut bundle with a rubber band and hang upside down. It takes 2-4 weeks to have dried mint to use all year long.
Did you know mint helps repel rodents? Mice, voles, and rats have sensitive noses. So the scent of mint messes with their senses and they stay away. Planting mint around buildings and houses, then trimming the mint or mowing it will release the oils, keeping rodents at bay.
Don’t have room to plant mint? Put a few drops of mint essential oil in a gallon sprayer with water and spray around buildings.
It’s a lettuce whirlpool bath! Our premium salad mix is put in a relaxing whirlpool bath bubbler, before being spun out. So it is the most chill 😎, so fresh and clean, clean🎶 lettuce you can buy.
Order by Wednesday at Noon at denneyfarms.com for Thursday delivery in N Manchester, on Farm pick on Friday.
Lacewing on our bonanza bolero marigolds. I didn’t even know they liked marigolds.
Lacewing larvae are great for eating aphids and other bad bugs in the garden. So if you see this guy out and about, notice their beautiful lacy wings, thank him for his work and let him live. He’s a good guy. 😊
What will we have Wabash Farmers Market tomorrow 8- Noon?
Premium Spring Salad Mix 🥬
Cucumbers 🥒
Radishes
Zucchini
White Russian Kale 🥬
Strawberries 🍓
Variety herb plants🪴
Last Call for Tomato and pepper plants. If your wanting to plant even a couple plants this is the weekend to get them.
First Strawberries of the season. The patch is full of green berries just waiting to ripen.
Nick set up at farmers market looking inquisitive. I wonder what he is thinking ?
"Love this market...at peak time of the year the assortment of items is more than sufficient. Fresh meat, eggs, veggies, baked goods, flowers and much more. Nice craft items too. Friendly feel, everyone is always in a good mood. [There is] music and food truck as well as a tractor/train ride for the littles." -local Downtown Wabash Farmers Market shopper
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Hi Everyone Brittany Denney here, the better looking half of Denney Farms. 😁 As many of you have heard I injured my back a couple months ago. I honestly can’t pinpoint when I did it, it really doesn’t matter. I just want to learn and heal from the errors that got me here and not look back. While I’m working on physical therapy to get stronger, I’m not at 100%, I’ve been relying on Nick and our kids to help out.
Please don’t feel sorry for me, this whole ordeal has been a blessing in disguise. I pushed myself and when my “batteries” needed recharged, and then pushed some more. I now working at a slower pace, I’ve got to see everything I was missing when I didn’t stop and “smell the roses.”
Moral of my post take a moment for yourself. Recharge your batteries. Dance to your favorite song, take a hike in nature, plant some flowers in your garden, read a book. You get the idea. Make yourself smile, 😃 you deserve it!
Our Spring Salad Mix is making its 2022 debut Wabash Farmers Market this Saturday 8-Noon.
Thank you to all our awesome customers! We wouldn’t be a farm without your support.
Our Pre-order plant sale this winter paired with farm to home delivery went amazingly well! Brittany only screwed up one order ( which was fixed immediately) So playing UPS wasn’t so bad. We plan on offering this option again next year.
We do still have tomato, peppers, herbs, and marigold plants available. Nick will be at Wabash Farmers Market this Saturday with plants and Brittany will be having a Plant Sale at our farm on Saturday starting at 8 am.
We’re set up Wabash Farmers Market rain or shine with some fellow die hards.
RiverRidge Farm- fresh produce
The Olde House bakery- Sugar Cream & Strawberry pies
Barton Honey
Patch of Sunshine- beautiful flower arrangements
Hill and Dale Farm- pasture raised meat
The Robin’s eggs have hatched! We are not using our front door until they have “flown the coop.”
If your picking up at the farm today from 5-6 pm please call or text 260-352-2602 if you don’t see us outside. We will happily bring your order out.
Do you love those rainbow pints of cherry tomatoes? Wonder how to grow your own? I'm going to let you in on a farmer secret.......... We plant several varieties different colors, different flavors to get those mixes. Stop by the Wabash Farmers Market Saturday 8- Noon, to pick up some heirloom cherry tomato plants and grow your own garden this year!
2nd Picture L-R:
Larry's Large Red Cherry- super rare from Brittany's Grandpa Larry. Nice salad size red
tomato, great tomato flavor, no cracking
Honeydrop- yellow to coral colored, sweet like honey, in heavy rains can crack
Sunsugar (hybrid)- sweet yellow, low acid cherry tomato, heavy producer
Snow White- ivory colored tomato, sweet like white grapes, no cracking
Sweet Purple Salad- deep purple salad size, sweet tangy flavor
No space to plant a garden? Try a 'Sweet Zen' grape tomato. Tiny red tomatoes, no cracking great flavor and can be grown in a container. Perfect for patio and kitchen gardens.
Warsaw plant deliveries today!
For some this is a day early, this is due to a scheduling conflict on our part. Plants were watered this morning before being loaded on the bus. They will be fine to sit outside all day.😊
Hey North Manchester, need more plants for your garden? Order online by this Wednesday at Noon. Plants will be delivered Thursday morning to your door!
Looking for a reason to not mow your lawn as frequently? A recent study by the USDA Forest Service found that mowing lawns every two weeks instead of every week can significantly increase the number of bees who visit them. Helping pollinators couldn’t “bee” any easier!
If you love those colorful snacking sweet peppers at the grocery. Try growing your own!
Lunchbox is a huge seller during our plant sales! We think we know why. Great flavor, can be grown in container gardens, small enough to snack on or add to a salad.
Stop by Wabash Farmers Market Saturday 8- Noon to see these and other beautiful vegetable plants for sale.
We brought the WHOLE greenhouse to farmers market! It only took a 48 Chevy and a school bus. Wabash Farmers Market
Borage is a beautiful annual, that smells like cucumbers! The flowers and leaves make an excellent summer tea or an addition to a salad.
Planting borage by your tomato plants keeps tomato hornworm’s away!
Stop by the Wabash Farmers Market Saturday 8- Noon. Nick will be set up with our entire greenhouse display (borage included!)
10 years ago today we were at that point in your life where you’re pregnant with your 3rd kid and your other 2 kids are each less than 4 years old and the guy you hired to sell produce for you quit the night before he was supposed to start. So, you find a babysitter for your two kids and you go out to set up on the roadside to sell produce and your husband goes into work to finish up any loose projects so they won’t be left for someone else, and then he quits his steady job, not knowing that you were out all day and only sold about $112. I’m sure we’ve all been there, it’s always a wise decision to not give a two week notice when deciding to quit your job to see if the general public would want to buy produce from you. We grew a garden the year before, it seemed to work, kinda.
We were also swayed by notion that we didn’t want our life story to be “remember when we didn’t do anything crazy, and we just kept working steady jobs.” We like to live a life full of stories and experiences. A life without fear of the unknown. A common question that was asked early on was “How are you going to feed your family?” To which, we would reply, “If that’s an issue we should probably find a different line of work.”
After our first season of selling produce and only making $1,200 profit, cashing out our retirement funds to pay our bills. When my Grandpa Larry asked Nick what he thought about the year he said “I’ve never worked so hard, for so little in all my life. Nor have I ever been happier.”
In the fall when the produce season was over Larry and I looked to Nick and asked what he was going to do for the fall/winter. Like get a factory job or work at Donnelly’s. Nick said “eh, I think I’ll process deer.” We were quite surprised, and with quizzical looks upon our faces asked “Will anyone bring you deer to process?” Nick sat back in his chair and said “sure” with a shrug that probably meant “I don’t know.” Little did we know that deer processing would be a huge business all it’s own. The first year was a struggle, but in the end the bills got paid, everyone was fed 😆 ( or we should find a new business to be in.) The kids were raised. We’re learning to have faith in ourselves, our kids and our dreams no matter how crazy.
So on our 10th anniversary we wish everyone the strength and faith to follow your dreams, no matter how crazy! A life worth living, is a life worth living, well. 💕
Photos of our first greenhouse, starting tomatoes in the kitchen, when we USED to raise pastured chicken and pork ( sometimes you have to alter your dream, to work for you!)
It’s not always been easy, but it’s been an a life worth living.
Plant delivery schedule:
North Manchester & Wabash: Friday, May 13th
Warsaw: Wednesday, May 18th
Bare with us as we attempt to play UPS. 🤔
We promise not to deliver plants if the weather will damage the plants, however with the forecast it looks like we’re in the clear.
We also offer on farm pick up Friday’s from 5-6 pm.
Robin nest on our front door. The next generation of robins. What a magical Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day!
Due to the inclement weather tonight, we will not be set up at Wabash First Friday. 😢
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It’s been 18 days since we’ve had measurable rain! We have automated irrigation, but it doesn’t compare to what the rain provides. We are so thankful for the rain, we don’t even care that we have to stop harvesting for a little bit. So what will we have at Wabash Farmers Market tomorrow? From our farm: Green beans. Onions 🧅 Red potatoes Head Lettuce 🥬. Salad mix 🥗. Cucumbers 🥒. Green tomatoes. Vine ripened tomatoes 🍅 Hot peppers 🌶 Garlic scapes. Italian basil 🌿. Thai basil 🌿 Vanilla basil 🌿. Parsley 🌿. Sage. Rosemary Herb plants 🪴 including Rosemary and Lavender We will also have: Georgia cantaloupes 🍈 South Carolina Peaches 🍑. Tennessee tomatoes 🍅 Michigan Sweet Cherries 🍒 #denneyfarms #wabashindiana #wabashfarmersmarket #urbanfarming #michigancherries #tomatoes #lettuce #basil
Herb talk this week…… How to harvest Basil, video. This works for all varieties of basil. Lemon, Italian, Sweet basil, Thai, Blue Spice basil etc. #denneyfarms #howtoharvestbasil #basil #lemonbasil #thaibasil #bluespicebasil #genovesebasil #urbanfarming #growyourownfood #growyourownherbs
It’s a lettuce jacuzzi! Our premium salad mix is put in a relaxing jacuzzi bubbler, before being spun out. So it is the most chill 😎, so fresh and clean, clean🎶 lettuce you can buy. Order by Wednesday at Noon at denneyfarms.com for Thursday delivery in N Manchester, on Farm pick on Friday. #denneyfarms #springsaladmix #organicallygrown #northmanchesterindiana #silverlakeindiana
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It’s Maple Syrup season again! Sap is running and so is Nick! Nick’s been out in the woods collecting sap by hand. #maplesyrupseason #denneyfarms #indianagrown #kosciuskocountyindiana #woodfiredmaplesyruptastesbetter
Different kind of snow shoveling. 😜 #denneyfarms #snowongreenhouse #winter #silverlakeindiana
We offer In- Season produce including heirloom varieties. Maple Syrup (cooked over an open fire the ol' fashioned way) We offer Deer Processing during hunting season. If you would like to drop off a deer please call before you come to make sure we are home. 260-352-2602 home
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