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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…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm We finally might see a break from this heat and parched ground with decent rain chances over the next 10 days. This heat has nearly put an early end to strawberries on the farm. The strawberry yield this past week was dismal. Our…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm There seems to be no let up in this heat. This limits most of our lettuce crop to Summercrisp which is a type of open leaf lettuce. It remains tender even under intensely warm days. We still have baby butterhead that is still…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm There seems to be no let up in this heat. This limits most of our lettuce crop to Summercrisp which is a type of open leaf lettuce. It remains tender even under intensely warm days. We still have baby butterhead and romaine, but…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, Last week we were able to get the first supply of organic blueberries. The quality was excellent. The blueberries are coming in at a good time as strawberry crop production is beginning to decrease. We should have strawberries for at least one more month and hopefully have blueberries consistently now…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm, We now should have a steady supply of organic blueberries. We brought them last week to the Captiva market and they sold out fairly quickly. We hope to get a larger amount this week. The blueberries are coming in at a good time…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, The tomatoes inside the newly built greenhouses are beginning to bear. We harvested the first fruits on Friday. First fruits tend to be big and beautiful. We also have a new crop of campari tomatoes coming on from one of our seasonal tunnels and more sweet peppers. It is always…

Greetings to the residents of Sanibel and Captiva from 12 Seasons Farm, The tomatoes inside the newly built greenhouses are beginning to bear. We harvested the first fruits on Friday. First fruits tend to be big and beautiful. We also have a new crop of campari tomatoes coming on from one of our seasonal tunnels…

Greetings from 12 Seasons Farm, February and March are generally the peak of our season both for production and demand. And boy do we feel it! The work load is very high right now, but it is great to see the farm back to full strength in terms of crop production. The team is working…