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Tuesday Sanibel drop site; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The farmer’s market season is beginning to wind down. We have 2 Bonita markets remaining and we have finished the Captiva Farmer’s Market. This Tuesday we plan to only do the Sanibel drop site for the residents of…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, Wow that was a lot of rain today!  This Tuesday will be our final Captiva market of the season! We appreciate all of you who supported us this season and over the years at this market. Thank…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, Southwest Florida received much needed rain this weekend! These hotter days are definitely exacerbating the dry conditions we have had until Sunday’s meaningful rain. While technically the first day of summer is a long way off, we…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We saw a very perceptible drop in market attendance at both the Captiva and Bonita farmer’s markets last week… not surprising given the change of seasons. In spite of really warm temperatures and prolonged dry weather, we…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We had an impressive last week with amazing produce demand through markets, home orders, and restaurants. We had one of our strongest weeks of the season for which we are so grateful. Our team has dwindled in…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, One of the highlights of the farm this week has been outstanding yields on the tomatoes. We are so grateful to see such superb quality. It is truly some of the best we have ever witnessed at our…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We are looking forward to some rain and slightly cooler weather this week. Most of the vegetable crops we grow are revitalized and more optimally turgid (full of water) when the nights are cooler (50s to low 60s). Conversely, there is…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, While the heat is starting to increase and take its toll on certain crops, we still have great diversity and production. Strawberry production remains good along with tomatoes and many other warm season crops like zucchini and…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We had a fun sauerkraut workshop last week and good turnouts at both markets. Thank you to all who attended and placed orders last week. Several of you have mentioned challenges when dealing with our website, mainly…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The overall mild weather conditions continue to favor excellent vegetable growth. We have been getting ample harvests of a number of crops including cabbage. As mentioned in a bulletin I sent out a couple days ago, we…

Sauerkraut Workshop this Tuesday, March 18, 3-5 pm Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The overall mild weather conditions continue to favor excellent vegetable growth. We have been getting ample harvests of a number of crops including cabbage. We have decided to offer a sauerkraut making workshop this coming Tuesday afternoon, 3-5 pm (will probably run longer).…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The farm is an active beehive these days as the crops are peaking and the demand for quality produce is exceedingly strong. We are grateful for such a strong midseason after a challenging start. We are offering leeks…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, This mild weather continues to favor amazing vegetable growth! The production and crop health has been overall fantastic. We had a very large turnout at both markets this past week. We have been getting many new customers for which we…

Tuesday Captiva Farmer’s Market; Thursday Farm Pick-Up & Home Deliveries; Saturday Bonita Farmer’s Market Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We received some much needed rain on the farm and throughout the state today. This kind of soaking rain helps rewet the vegetable beds that are normally irrigated through two rows of drip irrigation “tape” as it is…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, It has been another productive and busy time at the farm this past week. Both markets were well attended and demand at the restaurants has been especially strong. Thankfully, the farm is producing very well and our team is working at a high standard to do the necessary crop planting,…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The farm production has really increased with this warm weather. The moderately cool evenings combined with warm sunny days drive vegetable growth. We are getting generous harvests of broccolini, cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, and finally now peppers. We had a good strawberry harvest on Friday and hope that continues this…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, This week we continue to have improved production and diversity on most our crops with maybe the exception of strawberries. The strawberry quality is great, but the production is down. The strawberries have an early bloom time and then a bit of a rest and then enter a more productive…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We are grateful to have survived without significant crop damage from the cold weather last Saturday morning. We recorded 32.2 degrees on the farm and had a strong frost. We had covered the most sensitive crops– eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, and peppers. The majority of the other crops did spectacularly well.…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The farm is producing very well these days. The weather has been mostly favorable and the crops are maturing nicely. It is a pleasure to see the farm. So much hard work has gone into this season and now the fruits of that labor is wonderfully evident. We are super…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We are glad to have made it through the cooler temperatures without a hard frost or freeze event. Last week we had frost on the ground but nothing noticeable on the crops. The farm continues to improve in diversity and production. We have added collard greens and mustard greens to…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We continue to see better production in a variety of crops like carrots, broccolini, green onions, kale, strawberries, and cherry tomatoes. We are hoping that we will avoid frost this coming week as cold weather comes our way. Being so far inland and at such low elevation, the cold air…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We continue to see improvements in production with more tomatoes, strawberries, broccolini, and new types of lettuce coming available. We are grateful for the meaningful rainfall this past weekend. We see the forecast now for cool weather coming within the next 2 weeks. We hope it is not of the…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We finally have a good supply of heirloom type tomatoes, carrots, and kale! The weather has been favorable for good crop growth these past few weeks. The majority of the vegetable crops we grow do best in mildly warm daytime temps (mid 70s to low 80s during the day) and…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, Each week the farm is moving closer to its productive potential and the setbacks from the storm are becoming less obvious. For this we are thankful. We are adding carrots to the regular lineup of available produce now and each week you should see more produce available. This Tuesday we…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The 12 Seasons Team continues to expand in numbers. I think this is one of the largest teams we have ever had. Perhaps after Hurricane Ian the team was larger with so many helping but this is really close to being the biggest. We are very grateful to have such…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day with around 40 people gathered together for a day of celebrating and offering thanks to God our Father for His great mercy and provision this year and the beginning of a new farming season and for a wonderful team! We hope you had a…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We had another great market day on Saturday at the Bonita Farmer’s Market. Thank you to all those who came out! We are planning to have farm pick-up all day on Wednesday this week due to the Thanksgiving Day on Thursday. Use the old farm entrance, 14840 Old Olga. Rd.…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We had a great opening day last Saturday at the Bonita Farmer’s Market. Thank you to those who came out and supported us with your kind words and affirming business. It really was a lot of fun to see so many of you again! We are resuming the Thursday farm…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We hope this newsletter finds you well. We are glad to finally have opening day for the farm this coming Saturday. We intended to start in mid-October but we lost much of our crops to flooding and wind damage during both Helene and Milton. We have replanted multiple times and…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We hope this newsletter finds you well. We have returned from a cross-country journey. We had a marvelous vacation. We reconnected with friends and family, experienced amazing hospitality, and saw extraordinary parts of this country’s vast landscape. There are some photos below highlighting the trip. The vegetable season is mostly…