Farm Update

The grass and sky are still gray, the air still cold and dry. But the soil blocks are watered and under light and the Lizzies and Ranuculas have sprouted! Here at the Ole Farmstead the growing season has begun and the expectations for the 2025 season are abuzz with ideas for improving the gardens and the roadside shoppe along with new ideas for “The Big Shoppe” complete with flowers, coffee, books, grains, baked goods local art and more!

Our desire to return to real things and our desire to “source local” seems to be getting easier with the growing abundance of ideas, artists, gardens, coffee roasters, and culinary mushroom growers that we are finding so close to home! We at the Ole Farmstead intend to add to this growing abundance and momentum to make “returning to real things” easier and lasting and rewarding.

Be looking for monthly updates on the gardens, the roadside flower stand, the new “Ole Farmstead Shoppe”, You-Pick garden events and educational workshops. More than ever a decision point is being pressed upon us… will we cave to the allure of ease and convenience and wrap ourselves in digital automation, or will we choose the extra effort it takes to taste, touch, share and enjoy all the things that makes life more real- local things by local people.

We are excited that the 2025 growing season is already upon us. Look for monthly updates in this newsletter, and also expect more information on Instagram as the Ole Farmstead comes back to bloom. Also, the updated website will expand with information about events and workshops.

To Real Things!!

The Ole Farmstead