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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…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We made it back from our vacation and are eager to finish well the remainder of our season. We usually have fruits and vegetables that take us to through the beginning of July. We still have a good supply of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, carrots, onions, arugula, kale, Summercrisp lettuce,…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm, We plan to be at McCarthy’s Marina this coming Tuesday from 9 to 11am, May 23. After a week off while we were away on a family vacation we plan to be back this coming Tuesday. Thank you to those that pre-order and…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, This week there will be no Captiva market at McCarthy’s Marina. We plan to return there next Tuesday, May 23. Two customers informed us that their credit cards were compromised after they used our website. We are very sorry for this and for any other people who may have experienced…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We are now in the final 2 months of our selling season. We plan to be at the Bonita market 3 more times through the last Saturday in May. We will then start a Saturday market at our farm beginning June 3 until our last market day, July 8. The…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm, We plan to be at McCarthy’s Marina this coming Tuesday from 9 to 11am, May 9. _We do not plan to have a market on Captiva the following Tuesday, May 16. _We will resume on the following Tuesday, May 23. I know many…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We hope you all are ok from the high winds yesterday morning. The farm took a decent hit– nothing that can’t be repaired, but still a setback. It certainly is minor compared to what we went through in September. It should take Ek several days for repairs and we should…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm, While we still are harvesting from a decent number of crops, our diversity is starting to pare down as the heat and longer days does not favor the cool- season crops like cauliflower and cabbage. We plan to be at McCarthy’s Marina the…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The SW Florida growing season is long for us. Our season normally begins in October and continues until July. The season is bookended by heat which limits what kinds of crops will prosper at the beginning and toward the end. But there are enough crops that do well in the…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm, The SW Florida growing season is long for us. Our season normally begins in October and continues until July. The season is bookended by heat which limits what kinds of crops will prosper at the beginning and toward the end. We find cooler…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, It is great to finally get some significant rain. SW Florida really needed some relief from this prolonged dry spell. It certainly helps our farm. We grow most of our crops on raised beds to have better control over moisture levels in the soil. If we flat-planted everything (planting level…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm, This week has been a bit like homecoming for us with Cate and Elisha both visiting along with some other visiting friends from out of town. When Cate is here, my mind is more at rest. She is so adept at shouldering the…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, We finally are seeing the first reprieve of the heat and drought with a good rain yesterday and decent rain chances over the next 10 days. This heat has put an early end to strawberries on the farm. The strawberry yield last week and this morning was dismal. Tomatoes continue…