Borden Road Farm Market

For whats available week of August 18th scroll down please.

Complete Fresh Salsa Packets…Very popular the complete packet includes several kinds of smaller pulp rich tomatoes, several kinds of peppers, cilantro, onion, garlic and parsley if you like. Free recipes. Eat Well. Eat Fresh. Enough for six for $5.00

Perennial Herb Plants Available. Gallon pots of Thyme, Sage, Oregano, Chives, Egyptian Jumping Onions, Mint, and Horseradish.  All winter harder on our farm without protection. $4.50 a pot at the farm or at the farmers market. If you want at a farmers market, click on “Preorder” on the right of your screen under Features and will bring them to the market of your choice.

Free with any purchase at the farm…Your choice of either a vase of black eyed susans or a bunch of fresh sweet basil.  Offer good all week. The farm is open Tuesday through Saturday from 3 to 6 PM and at other times by appointment.

Sweet Corn, Tomatoes, Peppers…Finally here. This has been the slowest growing season in many years because of cool nights.  Hot nights expected this next week. Great for crops.  We now have a collection of most vegetables, but some are scarce.  If you want to buy at the farmers market or at the farm and be sure you get what you want we suggest “Preorder” on the right of your screen under features. Canning quantities should always be ordered in advance.  Questions on availability and pricing call 218-232-0848.

Great Herbs in Abundance.  Selection includes sweet basil (also limited quantities of cinnanmon and lemon basil), cilantro, dill, fennel, thyme, sage, and oregano.  Also horseradish root.  Potted plants of perennial herbs–sage, thyme, horseradish, oregano available as well.  Now is a good time to plant your perennial garden for next year.

Great cut flowers. Selection is wide with an abundance of black eyed susans, zinnia, cosmos, and others.  We have recently done flowers for some weddings, anniversaries, and birthday parties. Now is the time for fresh cut flowers in the living room and dining room of your home.

Great Cut Flowers.  Zinnias, cosmos, liatris, black eyed susans to name just a few.  This week we are supplying flowers for a couple of weddings which is a special treat.  Keep us in mind for cut flowers at the market and at the farm and remember us for special occassions like birthdays and weddings.  And everyday, nothing brightens the dinning room more than a fresh cut flower arrangement.  Make your own or we will make them for you.

 Herbs in abundance.  Add some spice to your meals with frsh basil, thyme, sage, oregano, mint, and a host of others.  If you make pasta sauce now is the time to buy herbs in abundance at a cheap price and freeze and dry them for later use. 

Vegetables soo slow.  In my 60 years of gardening seldom have we seen such a slow growing season.  Most vegetables like 60 degree nights and we have had few of those. Peppers, tomatoes and sweet corn prefer 70 degree nights and we have had only one of those.  But we do have limited quantities of fresh sweet corn, tomatoes, and peppers and more by the end of the week.  We also have zucchini, patty pan, and summer squash along with green beans and pea pods, cukes (slicers only, picklers are probably gone for the season but we keep a waiting list) and new potatoes.  The good news is that the pumpkins and fall squash are growing well and this week we will plant the fall crop of radishes, lettuce and beans.  Since it has been a cold summer we are counting on a long fall before frost (farmers are at the mercy of the weather, but we remain optimistic).

New Attractions at the Farm. If you haven’t visited our Duck Pond, you should.  A special attraction to kids and anyone who thinks young. Last week we got 200 baby chicks which are on display in separate rooms in the hen house–also some guineau hens which we may live to regret.  If you visit the hen house beware of the roosters roaming around outside the pens.  They have become so territorial they are almost like attack dogs–but we have learned to love their chasing us.

Farm open 3 to 6 PM Tuesday through Saturday.  Or see us at your favorite farmers market.  To get what you want, preorders recommended, just click on “Preorder” under “Features” on the right of your screen and tell us what you want and when you want it.  

FRESH RED RASPBERRIES.

THE BEST IN FRESH CUT HERBS…Basil, Cilantro, Dill, Fennell Fronds, Horseradish, Lemon Grass, Oregano, Thyme, Sage.  See also note below on creating your perennial garden for next year NOW.

VEGETABLES: Beans (green, purple, and yellow wax), pea pods, shell peas, kohlrabi, zucchini, yellow squash, patty pan squash, squash blossoms and very limited quantities of cherry and roma tomatoes, a few sweet banana and green bell peppers. New Potatoes.

FRESH CUT FLOWERS.  In bunches for you to arrange or arrangements in vases for you to take home.  Take your choice–Pink and white baby’s breath, coreopsis, gailardias, black eyed susans, cone flower, minature asters, sun flowers, zinnias, cosmos, purple and white liatris and much more….nothing like fresh cut flowers to pick up the spirits in the living room or on the dinner table.

WANT A SUMMER AFTERNOON TREAT? Visit us at the farm from 3 to 6 PM on Tuesday through Saturday….our hours will be longer next year but as we attend 5 farmers markets a week in the morning that is the best we can do for now…unless you call 218-232-0848 to make a visit at another time.  The kids will love a tour through the Beaver Trail, or Woodpecker Lane.  You might like to wander down Shady Flower Lane and all of you will like Cream Can Alley.  Then you can wander down 900 feet of mulched paths through flowers, vegetables and herbs.  Energy left over?  Take the path to the Duck Pond and see the geese and duck and go to the hen house, watch out for the roosters wandering around outside and then take the Minnesota Bamboo trail back to your car or see more.  We welcome you to the Borden farm with the century old Norway and White Pine Trees.  

Flower arranging seminar on Auust 9th at 4 PM for one hour. Contact us for details.

Now is a great time to plant your perenial herbs for next year.  We offer the following herbs in gallon pots for you to put in your garden now:  Mint, Horeradish, Sage, Thyme, Oregano, Eqyptian Walking Onions, and Chives.  All are winter hardy, even without mulch, in the Brainerd Lakes Area. $4.50 a pot or all seven for $25.00.  We do not generally bring these to market so you should click on “Preorder” under “Features” on the right of your screen or pick them up at the farm.  The Borden Farm is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 3 to 6 PM and by appointment–next year we will have longer hours, but attending 5 farmers markets a week this year does not permit us to do that now.

Free Herb Seminar at farm on August 2nd at 4 PM.  In one fast moving hour you will learn the history of, how to grow, and how to use herbs–and free recipes.  You will also be able to tour the herb garden–and any other part of the farm you like. Join us.

Great Herbs Available. Basil in abundance.  Also cilantro, fennel fronds, mint, oregano, sage, and thyme.

Fruit and Vegetables. Red Raspberries, new baby red potatoes, gourmet size zucchini and summer squash, turnips, radishes, green beans and pea pods and more.

Cut Flowers.  Include black eyed susan’s, zinnias, as well as the first of the sunflowers.  Soon great cosmos to add to the list of annuals.  Perennials in bloom include white and purple liatris, bee balm, baby’s breath in white and pink, some oriental lilies, coreopsis, coneflowers and much more.

Jams, jellies, honey, mayple syrup and Salsa.   All produced by Brambleberry Farm at Pequot Lakes. 

No organic eggs. All have been preordered through Stepetmeber.  

The surest way to get the produce you want at the farm or the farmers markets is to “Preorder.”  Just click on “Preorder” (under “Features” on the right of your screen, tell us what you want, and whether you will pick it up at the farm or designate a farmers market. We will confirm your order by email.

For a complete list of what is available this week, scroll down one item. Fried Squash Blossoms are considered gourmet items in Italy and Australia and at five start US restaraunts.  And we sold out on squash blossoms at the Nisswa and Crosslake markets last week.  Great recipe ideas are provided with huge blossoms.  To be sure you get what you want, click on “Preorder” on the right of your screen.

A squash blossom footnote, my mother started frying them at age 85 and we though she was ready for the nursing home until we tried them. Grandma Borden was always trying something new in both the garden and kitchen.  Not a bad way to live.  

Red Raspberries, new baby red potatoes, gourmet size zucchini and summer squash, turnips, radishes, green beans and pea pods.

Fresh cut herbs–basil, cilantro, fennel fronds, mint, oregano, sage and thyme.

Jams, jellies, honey, mayple syrup and Salsa.   All produced by Brambleberry Farm at Pequot Lakes.  Organic eggs are in high demand and limited supply. 

The surest way to get the produce you want at the farm or the farmers markets is to “Preorder.”  Just click on “Preorder” (under “Features” on the right of your screen, tell us what you want, and whether you will pick it up at the farm or designate a farmers market. We will confirm your order by email.

Do you have a desire for pure pleasure? We hope so and think that is how you will rate our products and produce.  Want something extra special for your table, order an arrangement of Fresh Cut Flowers or if you want a good summer read, order a copy of Win Borden’s book Ruminations: Memories & Tales from a Furrowed Mind.  After buying and reading the book, a reader wrote, “Best damn $10.50 I ever spent.  God bless you Mr. Borden and keep writing.” Autographed copies of the book are available at the farmers markets or at the farm. You can order on line at a cost of $13.00 which covers postage and packaging.  We will mail the book within 24 hours and include and invoice.