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Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm,We hope this newsletter finds you well. I have been writing two newsletters each week. I send one out on Saturday night for the Sanibel and Captiva residents since they order for a different day. Then I send one to all newsletter recipients usually on Monday. I accidentally sent the Sanibel/Captiva newsletter to the…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm,We are anticipating the next crop of tomatoes to begin ripening with this warmer weather. We hope the same for a rebound with the zucchini, peppers, and the damaged cucs from the rabbits. Usually, when there are successive days in the 80s, the tomatoes and other warm season crops begin to really push…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm,The cooling trend continued this past week and it is I think the longest time from tomato transplant date to harvest date that I have witnessed. The 3rd planting of tomatoes which was put in the ground around Nov. 1 still has yet to be harvested– over 90 days. We have a…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The produce diversity is very good except for cucumbers and zucchini. The cool weather and the rabbit pressure on the cucumber plants have been devastating for those crops. There are many highs and lows in farming. One of the advantages of being a diversified farm is the ability to weather these losses.…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, Tuesday at the Captiva market was the biggest yet. Thank you to those who came out. It was great to have beautiful weather and a strong turnout. Last year at this time we were set up alone at McCarthy’s Marina. This season there is a larger group of vendors. It is…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, It was wonderful to finally have a market day without rain or inclement weather. Last Saturday was a fun market day. Thank you to all who came out! We started harvesting cauliflower for the first time this season. The celery continues to be a surprisingly great crop for us this season.…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We received nearly 5 inches of rain this evening. This was the most intense rain we have had since Hurricane Ian. Thankfully, the farm should do fine with it. In spite of our low elevation, the water does infiltrate quickly into soil. The healthier the soil the better it absorbs.…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, This is an interesting winter for Florida with really cool temperatures and very wet conditions. We had over 2 1/2 inches of rain on Saturday with many more wet and cloudy days forecasted in the next 10 days. This weather favors a lot of the crops we grow like kale,…

Happy New Year from 12 Seasons Farm, New crops are coming into season as we begin this new year. We just started harvesting green onions, parsley, green beans, and carrots. We also plan to harvest celery at the end of this week. We had another good day at the Bonita market last Saturday. Thank you.…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We hope you have had a wonderful weekend with family and friends. Life has been very full here. I wish you all could see the beehive of activity that exists here at the farm. The amount of hands and coordinated activities it takes to cultivate a crop and bring it…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, I wish you all could see the beehive of activity here at the farm. The amount of hands and coordinated activities it takes to cultivate a crop and bring it to fruition is impressive. This week was one of those weeks where a lot of timely, significant work was achieved.…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, Tomorrow we are returning to the Captiva Farmers Market as it reopens. The market location is in the Starbucks parking lot near the South Seas Island Resort. The market takes place every Tuesday, 9am to 1pm. We have enjoyed serving the residents of Sanibel and Captiva over many seasons and…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We are returning to Captiva this Tuesday for the first farmers market of this season. The market has relocated back to South Seas Island Resort on Captiva. The market takes place every Tuesday, 9am to 1pm. For those interested, you can buy off the table, place a market preorder, or…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, Today there was great fun and jubilation on the farm. Friends of our family and farm hosted a big Christmas party for all the kids living and working here, past and present. It was so much fun– complete with bounce houses, a former school teacher/artist guiding children on festive card…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The tomatoes are really starting to produce well now. We have some new varieties we are growing this year that we hope you will enjoy. I will try to showcase them in future newsletters. Market on Saturday was bustling! Thanks to those who came out. We plan to begin at…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We hoped you enjoyed a day of thanksgiving and rest this past week. This past week we planted celery on the farm for the first time. We are starting to get a very stable supply of tomatoes now. We saw the first ripe peppers and cabbage. Thanks to those who…

Greetings and Happy Thanksgiving from 12 Seasons Farm, With the Thanksgiving Holiday this week, we are shifting farm pick up and deliveries to Wednesday this week. Please place your orders by tonight, Monday, 8 pm. We began harvesting heirloom type tomatoes this past week on the farm. Yeah! It is encouraging to finally see the…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The theme of the farm is plant, plant, plant. There are so many crops we are seeding and transplanting right now. Thankfully, the farm team is growing in numbers to help us stay on task with our planting goals. We had another great market day last Saturday. Thank you. We…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We enjoyed seeing so many of you at the Saturday Bonita’s Market last weekend. Thank you for coming out. This week we resume home deliveries on Thursdays to Naples, Bonita, Ft. Myers, N. Ft. Myers, Sanibel and Captiva. We are not doing Lakes Park Farmers Market this season as it…

Greetings from the farm, There is a beehive of activity on the farm as crop production and demand have ramped up. This time of year has the unique challenge of keeping pace with the crop production and the busier schedule of farmers’ markets, home deliveries, and restaurant orders. Thankfully, we have a great team this…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We hope this message finds you well. The farm is just beginning to produce. We don’t have a lot of diversity but we do have enough to make available for a farm pick up this Thursday. Our first market begins Nov. 4 in Bonita and we will begin home deliveries Nov. 9.…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, What a season it has been! As the sun is setting on another season, we are so grateful to have ended well after an extraordinarily challenging start to the 2022/23 season. On the eve of the hurricane as our house was flooding and I escaped with our farm manager to…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, This is the final week to our season! We will have deliveries and farm pick up options for this Thursday and one last market at our farm on Saturday, July 8. If you do come to the market on Saturday, we suggest preordering as our crop production is limited. If…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, This will be our last week at Lakes Park Farmers’ Market on Wednesday. You can place an order online and pickup at the Wednesday market if you prefer that location. We plan to have 2 more Saturday markets at 12 Seasons Farm through July 8. We plan to do farm…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We were thankful for rain the past 2 days as the heat this past week was intense. We plan to be at Lakes Park Farmers’ Mkt on Wednesdays through the end of June (2 more times). You can place an order online and pickup at the Wednesday market if you…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The farm season is winding down. We are busy cleaning weeds out of our fields and greenhouses. There is much to do to prepare the farm beds for the summer. We plan to sow a cover crop over a portion of the vegetable production area. It is grueling work but…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We are now down to just 2 farmers’ markets– Lakes Park on Wednesdays and 12 Seasons Farm on Saturdays. We will continue to do home deliveries for the month of June on Thursdays. As of now we don’t have plans to add Sanibel and Captiva on to the delivery route.…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm, Last Saturday was our final market in Bonita Springs. It is bittersweet. We are grateful for another very good season there. The Bonita Springs market is really the first market where we experienced a real demand and appreciation for what we grew at…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm, This will be our final week at McCarthy’s Marina this coming Tuesday from 9 to 11am, May 30. We are so pleased with how the market worked out this season. Thank you to Wendy Childers and Melissa Laidlaw and others who were proactive…