Borden Road Farm Market

You have waited patiently with us. But now they are here. In limited quantities we will have fresh shell peas, pea pods, and new potatoes for the Fourth of July week end. First available on Thursday at the markets and at the farm. Suggest you click on “Preorder” on the right of your screen and send us an email with your order and we will hold for you and confirm your order by email within a couple of hours. Or take your chance and visit us at the farmer’s market of your choice or at the farm. Farm open M/S from 8 to 6 and on Sunday from noon to 6. Scroll down for other products available.

*Great Jams, Jellies, Salsa, and Syrup from Brambleberry Farm.
*Organic eggs and flash frozen USDA inspected roosters.
*Herb plants…15 varieties of annual and perennial easy to grow herbs.
*Perennial flowers plants…Many varieties including Silver Mound, Sedums, Chrysanthemums, Bell Flowers (Campanula), Asters, Coneflowers, Guallardias, Blue Fescue, Creeping Phlox, Liatris (Gayflower & Blazing Star), and many more.
*Annual flower plants…a few left.
*Vegetable plants…a few cabbage, brocoli, kohlrabi, and tomato plants left.
*Fresh Produce…great radishes and green onions with sweet peas and pea pods and new potatoes by the week end.
*Fresh herbs cut while you wait…seconds away…fresh dill, thyme, oregano, tarragon and basil…soon others.
*Apple Chips for Grilling…what a flavor enhancement.
*Farm Nostalgia book…Ruminationsis a combination of the Reader’s Digest and the Farmer’s Almanac. Reviewed on WCCO radio by Charlie Boone…readers love it…autographed copies available.
***Don’t leave the farm without a visit to the duck pond.

They are ripening as I write. Probably ten days. But plan ahead for your own. We will sell all we can produce at $2.00 a half pint. If you have a sunny location, you can grow your own. We sell the Red Latham, a totally hardy plant–they have produced berries next to our duck pond with no attendance for more than twenty years–but you can do even better. Four plants will multiple and provide berries for a family of four next year and for years to come. We sell our plants in gallon pots, many with berries on them, for $2.50 a pot–a fraction of the costs at most nurseries for bare root stock. Buy at the farm or at the farmers market of your choice. Delicious Red Raspberries on ice cream taste even better if you have grown your own.

You will find both at the farm. The usual? The best in annual and perennial flower plants and herbs and great james, jellies, salsa, and syrup from Brambleberry Farms, plus organic eggs and chickens and fresh garden vegetables, fresh cut herbs and cut flowers for your home.

The unusual? Tour the garden paths and see uncommon vegetables (okra, tomatillo tomatoes, jerasalem artichokes and hop vines), usual and uncommon herbs (more than 15 varieties of perennial and annual herbs), and usual as well as rare flowers. Take the path to the duck pond and see the African and Chinese geese, young and old, swimming with 4 varieties of tame ducks and wild ducks and birds at the pond.

Finally some fresh produce…great radishes and green onions…more soon. With warmer weather both the plants and weeds are growing.   This week we still have some great tomato, pepper, cabbage, kohlrabi and brocoli plants.  Also great annual and perennial flowers and simply the best herb plants you can find anywhere.  In addition we have organic eggs and flash frozen whole fryers processed under USDA inspectors.  Also Jam, jellies, syrups, and salsa from Brambleberry Farms.  Expanded hours. In addition to going to the farmers markerts in Brainerd, Baxter, Crosslake and Nisswa, the farm is open for sales and tours 7 days a week.  Monday through Saturday from 8 AM to 6 PM and Sunday from noon to 6 PM.

The growing and selling of plants is filled with suprise and that is part of the joy of it all. This year an American Native Wildplant is among the most popular perennials for home gardens.  We offer it in purple and pink.  Most people think it is beautiful, but the name ugly.  They are right.  Most know it as spiderwort, but the real name is Tradescantia and it was discovered by the gardener for King Charles of England during a trip to Virginia in 1630.  King Charles so loved the plant that he named it after his gardener.  Lovely and durable and standing 15 inches it is a wonderful plant for your garden.  Durable?  It lived at our farm for a decade when no one was here to tend to its needs. 

I have never seen a sunrise I didn’t appreciate, but this morning it was simply spectacular. I took the luxury of laying in bed an extra five minutes and viewed the changing sky from my east bedroom window.  The sky changed almost second by second.  After  enjoying my first cup off coffee I was off on my “Gator” to check out the duck pond and the gardens.  The African Geese were on the far side of the pond with only the gander visible and it looked but did not swim across the pond to greet me.  Instead it stayed on the far side with no evidence of the mother goose.  I feared the coyotes had paid a visit once again, but after a few minutes the goose appeared and she and the gander swam across the pond for their morning breakfast.  As they did the sand turtles were already sunning themselves on a log in the pond.  After feeding the geese, I was off to the garden.  With the warm weather the produce, as well as the weeds, are growing rapidly.  As I traveled down the mulched paths, six adult Killdeer did their “injured act” to take my attention away from the at least 20 baby killdeer who scurried off together in a different direction.  Their parents have already trained them well.  The sunrise, the geese, and the killdeer made my second cup off coffee as I traveled the farm paths a special treat.  Hope your day is a great one.  Produce available next week will be posted Sunday night. Scroll down for a list of perennial plants available and note our expanded hours.