Pumpkin Pie-Mobile: Our favorite mini-truck is loaded down with the last of our massive harvest of pumpkins and winter squash. We will have all of these at our farm stand tomorrow for your families to enjoy all sorts of Thanksgiving dishes….
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Japanese Persimmons: These are my favorite autumn fruit. Read below for suggested ways to prepare and enjoy them! We are going to be planting 6-8 more trees on the farm this week. Both American and Japanese varieties of trees are available…
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Renfrow Farms Market stand Celebrates One Year! I am still learning to document farm events more completely, but I did find some photos of our very first farm stand last November. It is such a delight to see the growth…
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Floral Business Expansion We’ve started booking weddings for 2016, and have updated our website to explain several different ways to incorporate our farm’s flowers in both events and every-day routines next year. Please help us to spread the word! Thank you! www.RenfrowFarms.com/Flowers…
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Gaspar, our expert collards-harvester. Moe’s Original BBQ, our favorite downtown Matthews lunch spot, is keeping us very busy right now, as we are delivering large quantities of greens three times each week. ***** We still have an enormous variety of…
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It’s Pumpkin Time! We grew so many pumpkins & winter squash this year – all heirloom varieties that are delicious as well as gorgeous. Stop by the farm stand or Renfrow Hardware to see the entire selection of shapes, colors, &…
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Field Transformation The zinnias and okra are gone now, and already replaced by garlic and onions, fall-sown flower seeds, and more collards for Moe’s BBQ. ************** Gaspar, Ruth, and I had a busy week between rains pulling up a good…
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Fruit & nut plants are here! Last week we received our yearly delivery of fruit plants best suited to grow in our climate. Many are at the farm right now, and are being transitioned to the hardware store in the…
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Broccoli Season Has Begun! Broccoli is one of our favorite crops to grow. Many of our fall crops, including broccoli, collards, and kale will really take off after the amazing rain we have had over the past several days! Ruth is a hardworking…
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We still have maters! Our mid-July planting of tomatoes is healthy and the tomatoes are enormous – we think they will start ripening after we get some rain this week. Our mid-June planting is still producing, but we sell out fast –…
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