Borden Road Farm Market

Consider my book, “Ruminations: Tales & Memories from a furrowed mind.” It is? A farm nostalgia book, set in the Brainerd Lakes Area, and stories from our family farm dating back to 1880. It travels the road of life with short storie–the ones before the 1940′s told to me by parents, and grandparents. The later ones from my own life experience. More than a hundred very short stories about life on the farm–then and now. It is filled with hope & optimism, some humor, and maybe a trace of wisdom learned over the years. To order the book simply email me Win@BordenFarmMarket.com

When you send email, in the subject line put “Book Order” and in the body include your name and address. If you want more than one copy, indicate that. All books will be autographed, but if you want it autographed for a particular person, let me know that as well. Send no money. The book will be shipped with an invoice for $12.50 each that covers the book, postage, and handling. Feel free to call me at 218-232-0848 if you have questions. Happy New Year. Win Borden

While the farm is closed until April, we are sending books, and gift certificates by mail as soon as orders are received. Send no money. We will invoice you.

A gift to someone who respects the environment and likes farm life. “Ruminations” a farm nostalgia book from the heart of the Brainerd Lakes Area. A great winter read and a wonderful holiday gift. It is? About life on the farm, hummingbirds, butterflies, bald eagles, and loons. Some thought I was looney when I wrote it. But well received it has been. It is filled with nostalgia, hope, and maybe just a bit of wisdom from a long walk down the road of life. Cost for autographed copies? $10.00 plus $2.50 for mailing.

Borden Farm gift certificates available. You get $25.00 in value for $20.00. Great attractive gift certificates mailed to you for holiday giving. Good for perennial or annual flowers, herbs, and vegetable plant as well as all of our fresh produce in season. Redeemable at the farm or at any of the 5 farmers markets we attend anytime during the 2012 growing season.

Grow Your own at the farm. You get your own private plot at the farm. Such fun for young and old alike. You get a 20 by 50 ft plot, tilled, ready to plant. Behind a 10′ fence to keep the deer out. You plant, weed, and harvest with family and friends. Available to you from sunrise to sunset 24/7 during the growing season. If if doesn’t rain an inch a week we water it for you…just as we water our own gardens. You get? Exercise, pesticide free produce, and have the fun growing it with your kids, grandkids or friends. Cost? $50 if paid by the end of the yr. Later $75. Limited plots. Reservations now taken.

Orders? Easy just send me email WinstonBorden@AOL.com Tell us what you want and it will be in the next mail along with our invoice. Questions? Call Win Borden at 218-2323-0848.

2011 was a great year at the farm. While the farm is closed until April, we have some special offers for you NOW.

Questions? Call us at 218-232-0848.

The Borden Farm is open to the public daily from 10 to 6 through Halloween, but we are done with farmers markets for the season. We still have a great collection of pumpkins and a wide variety of squash–acorn, buttercup, butternut, delicata, hubbards (red and blue) spaghetti, turbin, and the French Galeaux D’Esenyes as well as the Australian heirloom Jarrahdale. Limited quantities of tomatoes, carrots, beets, onions and more. Great gourds for your Halloween and Thanskgiving decorations. Questions? Call us at 218-2321-0848.

Also great perennials and herbs in gallon pots at bargain prices for those with the fall spirit to garden. We will be working to put the gardens to bed for the winter until the ground freezes. For next year? We are filled with anticipation.

Lot’s of Great Produce…and we are open everyday from 10 to 6.

For your October & Halloween Parties? Lots of great pumpkins, gourds, fancy decorative squash, Native American corn in large and mini ears, plus straw bales & corn shalks as well as potted blooming fall mums.

For your taste buds? By the garden stacks of winter squash. The acorn, buttercup, butternup, carnival, delicata, spaghetti, & turbin are competing with the hubbards (Big Blue and Red Warted), but the attention is really focused on the French sqaush Galeaux D’Eysines and the Australian Jarrahdale. Come check them out. Also potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, rhutabagus, peppers, and a few tomatoes. All waiting for you to check them out. Apples some honeycrisp, chestnut crabs, sweet sixteen, and more.

The fall leaves? The maple and birch leaves cover the ground along with the needles from the white and norway pine. The sumac still hold their burgandy glow and the red oak leaves are bronze. The cedar trees? Beautiful green bows heavy with seeds. Come walk through the paths and the ducks and geese at the pond are eager to greet you as are the hens and roosters at the chicken house.

Exclusive for gardening afectinadoes. More than 40 varieties of perennial flowers and herbs in gallon pots. Now is the best time to plant them. Plants for sun or shade. Plants that our deer resistent. Let us help you plan your perennial gardens. Most plants are perennial somewhere. We sell as perennials only those plants that grow in our gardens without winter protection.

We are open every day from 10 to 6 through Halloween Weather permitting. We have many pumpkins from small to basketball size and some larger…a few well over 100 pounds. Gourds galore. Corn shalks, straw bales, and potted blooming chrysanthemums for your yard. Add potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, beets, onions, cabbage, rhutabagus and more.

Great perennial flowers and herbs. And with this weather we have one last chance to prepare our gardens for magnifient blooms for spring and summer. Not all are now good looking, like the iris, bleeding heart, ostrich ferns and others as they are already in fall hibernation. But like a tulip bulb planted now, they will be ready for spring.

Potting soil, black/peat dirt, and wood chips available.

Questions? Call us at 218-232-0848.

Please join us for our Annual Fall Festival on Saturday October 8th from 10 to 6. We will serve complimentary spicy pumpkin soup, hot chili, and warm apple cider gardenside starting at noon. Hopefully the leaves will be in full fall color. The ducks and geese at the pond are eager to greet you as are the hens and roosters in the chicken house. And the rabbits need people of any age who are young at heart to feed them carrots. There will be a gardenside bonfire and at 2 PM a pumpkin carving contest for kids. Please join us. Questions? Call us at 218-232-0848.

Stop by for the best of fall produce. Open daily through Halloween from 10 to 6.