It’s time to get the spring plants in the ground! This week at the Virtual Farmstand, we have a few tomato and pepper plants left, as well as zucchini starts and some bumblebee, hummingbird, and butterfly favorites for your pollinator garden. We also have some nice produce, including sugar snap peas, kale, chard, and artichokes, as well as duck and chicken eggs. As always, we have several different Sonoma County honeys and our own organic lavender oil, hydrosol, sachets, and lavender hand sanitizer too. You can order online here, and pick up on Tuesday or Friday between 10 AM and 12 PM at the farm (3883 Petaluma Hill Rd, Santa Rosa).
In other farm news, our baby geese are growing up fast, and we’re now integrating the incubated chicks May and Max (imprinted on humans) with the adult geese and the one baby they are raising. It’s going OK, although one of the adult geese is always chasing Max and May. I’m sure they will work it out over time, but as the official “goose mom” of Max and May, I do worry!
They are Cotton Patch geese, a breed that was used in the Southeast U.S. to help weed cotton fields before herbicides were used extensively. The males are typically white and the females are either solid gray or gray mixed with some white in a saddleback pattern if they have the “pied” gene. Ours are the solid gray type. They are friendly and chatty and provide great entertainment and assistance with weeding (I keep trying to train them to love bindweed). The breed is rare now, and we are trying to do our part to keep it alive and healthy. We love their antics and their closeness to humans.
We hope to be open at some point when they County gives the go-ahead. We’ll keep you posted!
hello . im looking for milkweed and one with the bigger leaves and stems. do you have that ? thanks
Those are the Common Milkweed. We have some growing, but they are not quite ready for sale yet. Another few weeks. Our Monarchs don’t arrive until late summer/fall, so there’s time!
So glad email works well, love to see your enterprise blossom! Might have to order to do my part, your neighbor to the west, heidi keller.
Thanks Heidi!
I would love to pick up sugar snap peas if you have available tomorrow morning ?
Hi Dawn,
We do have sugar snap peas available right now, but they are going fast. You can order through our online store at https://squareup.com/store/bees-n-blooms.
Best,
Susan
Thanks for the update, goose mom. It is good to “hear your voice”.
As the old TV ad used to say, “Open, open, open!”