2025-06-30 newsletter

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm,

We had our final farmer’s market of this season last Saturday! We plan to
continue home deliveries and farm pick-up on Thursdays as well as farm pick-up
on Saturdays for as long as we have meaningful produce options and people are
interested. 

Please place your order by 8 pm Tuesday for Thursday options; and by 8 pm
Thursday for Saturday farm pick-up.

All farm pick-ups will now occur at the original farm entrance, 14840 Old Olga
Rd., which is the east driveway. This is a self-serve pick-up. Remember to grab
your order both from the walk-in cooler (cold portion) and the tomato shed
(non-refrigerated).

Here is our schedule for this week:

THURSDAY FARM PICK-UP
& HOME DELIVERY: Place an order online before 8 pm Tuesday for
Thursday all day pick-up at the farm or to receive a home delivery. For farm
pick-up, use original farm entrance, 14840 Old Olga Rd. Order
is usually split between cold produce in walk-in cooler and the air conditioned
tomato shed just left of walk-in cooler.

SATURDAY FARM PICK-UP AT 12
SEASONS FARM: Place an order online before 8 pm Thursday for all day
pick-up at the farm on Saturday. Use original farm entrance, 14840 Old
Olga Rd. Order is usually split between cold produce in walk-in cooler
and the air conditioned tomato shed just left of walk-in
cooler.

If
you have questions about the farm or your orders please feel free to text or
call Danny at 239-229-3579.

Place orders at
12seasonsfarm.com

This is what we are harvesting:

• Curly Kale
• Flat Kale
• Arugula (limited)
• Heirloom and specialty tomatoes 
• Red Slicing tomatoes
• Cherry tomatoes 
• Beets (limited)
• Daikon radish (limited)
• Florida Sweet onions
• Leeks
• Broccolini
• Eggplant
• Flat Parsley 
• Mint
• Chocolate Mint (very limited)
• Italian Basil
• Papaya
• Bananas
• Mango
• Sunflowers
• Wildflower honey
• Sea of Cortez salt
• Monkey and Strawberry Butter

Some of the fruit we had on the last market day

Thank you to all who came out on Saturday. Allison White, a faithful 12 Seasons
customer, came Saturday to pick up her preorder. 

Martin and Bonnie Price also came by on Saturday. They are the founders of ECHO
where I worked for over 16 years when I first moved to Florida back in 1994. It
was there and under Martin’s guidance that I really learned how to farm in
southwest Florida. They are such a blessing!

Starfruit is coming back in season! Passionfruit too!

We have lots of bananas ripening finally on the farm.

Here is Brian setting elevation marks to get ready for building 2 more
greenhouses.

Here we are unloading the greenhouse materials off the delivery truck.

Here are Jill and LJ pruning the citrus inside the bags. Now that we have more
time to work on other projects, we are focused on pruning the citrus and the
lychees. We are planning to plant more papaya and avocados.

Thank you all for a great market season. While I could fit everything at the
end of Saturday’s market in one golf cart, this season took an army of amazing
helpers and workers to produce a lot of amazing food. I am relieved and
grateful. It was a solid season. Thank you, 12 Seasons Team– your hard work
and excellence were awesome.

And thank you to you all for supporting us so faithfully and generously! 

We still have produce options available for those that want to continue
to order for pick up or get a home delivery. Our lean, but strong team
will continue the work during these summer months as we finish this season and
prepare for the next!

All the best, 

Danny, Vicki, the kids, and the 12 Seasons Team