Fritillary Farm

Fritillary Farm Fritillary Farm is a fruit and vegetable farm focused on agro-ecological principles. Acres of produce

We've been curing sweet potatoes just for this Saturday, gold, orange, and purple. All super sweet and ready for roastin...
11/21/2025

We've been curing sweet potatoes just for this Saturday, gold, orange, and purple. All super sweet and ready for roasting. New this week we also have Radicchio!!!

Come see us this Saturday the 22nd for out largest market of the season. We will have the following produce:Orange sweet...
11/21/2025

Come see us this Saturday the 22nd for out largest market of the season. We will have the following produce:
Orange sweet potatoes
Gold sweet potatoes
Purple sweet potatoes
Highlander onions
Winter squash
Frosted blue collards
Curly kale
Tuscan kale
Mustard greens
Head lettuce
Radicchio
Leeks
Rainbow carrots
Rainbow beets
Watermelon radishes
Purple daikon radishes
Easter egg radishes
French breakfast radishes
Gold turnips
Hakurei turnips
Rutabagas
Fennel
Kohlrabi
Jersey cabbage
Tendersweet cabbage
Napa cabbage
Baby bok choy
Slicing tomatoes
Sungold cherry tomatoes
Sweet peppers
Poblanos
Eggplant

Had a nice break from the farm earlier this month. Sometimes, it's good to just step away from everything and let your m...
11/17/2025

Had a nice break from the farm earlier this month. Sometimes, it's good to just step away from everything and let your mind rest. Here's a few photos from Mendocino and San Francisco, CA. Thanks to my aunt Winnie and Andy in Mendo for letting me visit. Also, thanks Wolfman and Jeff in the Bay Area that let me stay at their places.

We are crushing this fall on the farm, and im sorry that I dropped off the gram for a bit. Oddly enough, in my opinion, summer is the hardest season to farm. It always takes a toll on me. There are high expectations, higher chances of crop failures, and just higher degrees of burnout.

Ill be back posting here to get you all informed again. Thank you all for your support, and come see us this Saturday, November 22nd, for all your fresh, sustainably grown Thanksgiving Veggies.

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Sadly, today I had to let go of my best friend and farm companion. Riley and I found our ways into eachothers lives on m...
04/18/2025

Sadly, today I had to let go of my best friend and farm companion. Riley and I found our ways into eachothers lives on my 22nd birthday and have supported each other for the past 15 years. He was with me when I started my agriculture journey on New Earth Farm in 2012. He moved with me to North Carolina when I went to school for sustainable agriculture and finally made it to live on our own farm for his last five years.

He was my world and will be greatly missed out here.

I will not personally be at market Saturday, I will be on a hike with some friends that new him and to get so closure. However, the farm will be at Saturday, so please come out and support us and the local vendors that pour our hearts and souls in to what we do.

New things are happening on the farm every day. Snow peas are flushing out. Potatoes are breaking through the soil. May ...
04/01/2025

New things are happening on the farm every day. Snow peas are flushing out. Potatoes are breaking through the soil. May apples are emerging to, which is a sign to me the morels are near!!!

Its okay to hate the tunes, but take a second to appreciate the process.This is what starting transplants looks like wee...
03/20/2025

Its okay to hate the tunes, but take a second to appreciate the process.

This is what starting transplants looks like weekly on the farm. First, I start with filling winstrip seed trays with FoxFarm Ocean Forest soil. Then, using a seed flat dribbler, I put small indents in each soil cell. Finally it's time to seed.

New seed with 90% germination rate or higher gets one seed per cell. Under 90% germination gets 2 seeds, or if the seed is 2 years or older, it gets 1 seed per year old.

Then, it's time to cover the seed. I use the same soil mix, but dry, so it runs through the sieve.

Then it's time to water. I like to lightly splash the trays. If you stay in one spot to long seeds can float up and move around.



More new things going on this spring at the farm. We just installed and inoculated a 300sq ft wood chip and straw bed wi...
03/18/2025

More new things going on this spring at the farm. We just installed and inoculated a 300sq ft wood chip and straw bed with King Stopharia mushrooms from field & forest. This large portobello size mushrooms will hopefully start to flush this fall.



First transplants of the season went in today. We planted Tuscan kale and curly kale the we started on Dec 23. First we ...
03/06/2025

First transplants of the season went in today. We planted Tuscan kale and curly kale the we started on Dec 23. First we removed our old lettuce and landscape fabric. Then fertilize and till the top couple inches. We then rake the beds, run furrows, lay drip line and plant.



It's starting to feel a lot like spring, and most of our onions are in. We planted around 9-10,000 today and have about ...
03/05/2025

It's starting to feel a lot like spring, and most of our onions are in. We planted around 9-10,000 today and have about another 1000 to go. Seed potatoes arrived and are chitting before planting. Fingers crossed for a good season.



So we got some snow on the farm but everything held up. I didn't need to run heaters in the tunnels or sweep them which ...
02/20/2025

So we got some snow on the farm but everything held up. I didn't need to run heaters in the tunnels or sweep them which is nice.

This year we have dedicated 1/4 of the farm to perennial fruit. You can see the new orchard, fig Grove, and the blueberry and blackberry field. We will also be planting muscadines and scuppernong grapes, josta berries, cherries, and kiwi.

The orchard has
5 Asian pears
8 apples
6 peach trees
6 plums

We planted 60 blueberry bushes and 105 blackberry plants

So hopefully in two years we'll start to see some berries and grapes. In about 4 years, fruit from the peaches, plums, and cherries. In about 6 years from the apples and Asian pears.

First hard freeze tonight on the farm. The apartment frost was already settling in to our nursery house when I got the w...
11/30/2024

First hard freeze tonight on the farm. The apartment frost was already settling in to our nursery house when I got the woodstove gowing at midnight.

We'll see what makes it through the night. Tomorrow I'll cover what I can that survives.

Calling all pepper heads, we have you pick:Yellow scorpionsHawaiian chilisHot paper lantern HabanerosOrange habanerosAnd...
11/28/2024

Calling all pepper heads, we have you pick:
Yellow scorpions
Hawaiian chilis
Hot paper lantern Habaneros
Orange habaneros
And aji mango peppers on this Friday the 29th.

Great opportunity to pick a bunch for hot sauce, salsa, drying, or chilini flake and rubs. Just DM ne and I'll give you the details.

We're expecting a hard freeze all next week so this is the last of the hot ones.

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