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Did you know Suzie’s Farm delivers in San Diego five days a week? Not only that, several acres of our farm in San Diego’s Border State Park is dedicated to custom growing for the specific needs (and imagination) of our local chefs. Can you say boutique and convenience all in one breath? You don’t have to. Just say Suzie’s Farm. Visit our Chef's Page to view our delivery schedule and learn more about our partnership with restaurants.
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Suzie’s Farm produce is now at OB People’s Co-Op!!
From their website, “Ocean Beach People’s Organic Food Market is a member-owned vegetarian consumer co-op that has been serving the community since 1971. Originally a worker’s collective, the cooperative has grown to include 6,000 feet of retail space and more than 11,500 member/owners. The Co-op offers an extensive selection of organic produce, grocery, dairy, and bulk foods and herbs, as well as vitamins and homeopathics, cruelty-free bodycare, and aromatherapy products. Enjoy a full service sit-down deli featuring a delicious selection of home-style vegetarian and vegan entrees, salads, sandwiches, freshly prepared baked goods, desserts, and more! At People’s, San Diego’s only community owned grocery store, we specialize in products that are organic, wholesome, minimally processed, cruelty-free, and environmentally safe.”
OB People’s is located at 4765 Voltaire Street - in Ocean Beach, of course. They are open from 8am - 9pm.
As of today, they will carry our tomatoes, and summer squash. We are working on a label that will bring our herbs to their produce department.
It is so exciting that our products are slowly entering the market place. We are proud of our work and so pleased to be able to bring it to the public. We hope you enjoy!
Sorry I’ve been absent lately. We’ve been busy preparing for our organic inspection. Plus I’ve had two sick kiddos, so I haven’t been on the farm as much this week.
Our organic inspection is this Monday and it’s a ton of paperwork that we need to prepare. Speaking of which, I have to call Johnny’s Seeds to get their organic certificate so I can add it to our packet!
I really enjoyed meeting some of you at our UC host site last night! It was great to put names to faces that I’ve been chatting with over the Internet!
Look for me, Your Farmer, at other host sites too! It’s your opportunity to ask questions about our farm, and to learn more about the products and services we offer!
It’s an absolutely beautiful day here at the farm. The temp says 91, but with the wind blowing hard off the ocean, it feels about 10 degrees cooler. The clouds are determined to get my attention - making lazy, swirling patterns in the sky. “Look at me over here in the East”, says one cloud formation. “No! No! Over here!”, says another.
Robin and I are walking Suzie’s Farm and dreaming.
Now that we have the Back 40, or Kiki Town as we are calling it, we don’t have to farm Suzie’s Farm - or rather our Hollister Street property - the way we originally farmed it. Hoping to squeeze enough food out of our measly acreage to feed our shareholders, some farmer’s markets, and a few local restaurants. Rushing to plow under rows whose production was weak, so you could get back in there and plant again. Dying tiny deaths every time the bunnies would ravage six or seven rows. When you only have 30 rows planted, and the bunnies take out 6 of them, you’ve lost one-fifth of your production and it’s pretty hard to turn around and come back from that.
On Kiki Town, we can breathe deeply - relax and expand. It’s open space and the possibilities and ideas pour from so much open, empty land. Yes, the site is busier with the helicopters, Border Patrol Station, and busy intersection. But it also leaves more room to function. We have planted about 75 of the 114 rows we had formed last week. This week alone, with our new professional crew, we planted 6 types of potatoes, 4 types of sweet potatoes, 3 types of beans, 2 types of corn, 8 types of tomatoes, 6 types of winter squash, 3 types of summer squash, beets, carrots, radish, and more. 75 rows!! That is so much food. I can not imagine how it will feel to watch all that food grow. I can not imagine how it will feel to harvest all that food! Yes, Kiki Town is function. It is operation. It is production.
Which leaves us with Suzie’s Farm on Hollister Street. Suzie’s is our place to dream. Suzie’s is about beauty. Suzie’s is about form.
Suzie’s Farm is divided into five sections, with possibilities in the exterior boundaries.
First come the green houses, or The Chicos. We have about 30 Chicos in which we grow our edible flowers, herbs, and tender greens.
Next comes what we call Field One. Pretty original, huh? Field One is where the bulk of your food is grown. Field One is the bunnies all-you-can-eat-buffet. Field One is the meat and potatoes of Suzie’s Farm. I think we are up to about 60 rows there, and we have planted almost everything you can imagine on Field One - squash -winter and summer, tomatoes and tomatillos, corn, beans, peas, radish, beets, carrots, fennel, eggplant and greens.
To the West of Field One is The Orchard. We have planted over 38 varieties of trees, bushes and vines there. Not this year, and not next, but hopefully by 2012 we will all be feasting on apricots, blueberries, cherries, nectarines, peaches, apples, figs, mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruits, plucots, plums, avocados, raspberries, grapes, gooseberries and boysenberries.
West of The Orchard is Field Two. Field Two has been a colossal bust. Of the 36 rows we planted there, only the tomatoes have taken off. Three good rows, and the rest is garbage.
West of Field Two are the Permabeds. This is our experimental area. We created the beds by piling up farm waste, covering it with cardboard, and then covering that with mulch. This is where we have tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, squash and cucumbers. We also have random sunflowers there, their gigantic heads dipping toward the East. Sunflowers that managed to withstand the bunnies attack. Birds have started consuming the dried sunflower seeds. I hope they spread those seeds all over the valley.
Now that we have Kiki Town, Robin and I want to expand The Orchard into Field Two. We want to plant more soft fruit vines and bushes, more fruit trees, maybe some nut trees, all of our perenniel herbs like rosemary, thyme, and lavender, and our strawberries there. We want Suzie’s Farm to be the place where we can host our shareholders, give tours, invite schools, have picnics, and offer chef dinners. We want to walk among the shadow of those trees, hear the ocean breeze rustling their leaves, smell the heat warming the rosemary and lavender, and dream.
We are dreaming of trellises surrounding the north and south side of the property, bulging with grapes. We envision nut trees sprawling along the north fence line. We see a small pond shimmering in the sun, and a fresh carpet of rambling mint. We can see picnic benches, and people relaxing underneath umbrellas. We see kids running around, getting dirty, breathing fresh air. We hear laughter. We hear contentment. We feel love.
Suzie’s is about community. About getting to know your neighbors. About feeling like you are part of something, instead of apart. We hope you share our feelings.
We are thinking of holding a Harvest Festival this Fall! We would love to have our shareholders come down and see the Farm, take a tour, taste some food, see our new varieties, and generally share in the harvest!
We’re thinking to invite some chefs from around town to cook up some tasty vittles using Suzie’s Farm ingredients. Get some wine from some local vineyards, and have our shareholders pick their own pumpkins!
We’ll keep you posted with the details! If you know of any chefs interested in participating in our Harvest Festival, do let us know!
The adam is maybe one of the staple cukes. Yields more than we know what to do with, lasts long, and tastes perfect. I’ve pickled this variety before with great success, used it for popsicles, added it to cold water, even soaked my allergy ridden eyelids with it’s soft fruit.