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Vegetables, Herbs, Fruit, Eggs About Us In the fall of 2007, we went to a rabbit show at the Fairgrounds in OKC and there we met Barley - a large French Lop, our first encounter with a rabbit larger than a small dog. We immediately fell in love, took him home, and named him Barley. He now presides over the whole house. We also have two Lionhead rabbits and a small geriatric Holland Lop. They all love our home-grown veggies and herbs and each devours at least 3-4 plates a day. There's much less enthusiasm for anything store-bought! My mother (Jo), brother (Dan), and I (Liz) have lived on my grandfather's 160 acre farm northeast of Norman since 1982 and we've always had a small garden. In 2007 we began growing a variety of traditional and interesting herbs, planted a small asparagus patch, and grew our first heirloom tomatoes (the Cherokee Purple). The wonderful flavors and varieties of heirloom vegetables is amazing, and we now try to find organic or untreated heirloom varieties of many of the vegetable seeds we grow. Dan joined the business in 2010 and has expanded our business to include chickens, bees, and small fruits (including table grapes, blackberries, and strawberries). The notion that we might be able to grow enough to sale some of our wonderful veggies and herbs at a farmer's market is now becoming a reality thanks to the numerous meetings about sustainable agriculture and growing for farmers markets held in Oklahoma, and the increased awareness and determination to eat safe, healthy, and local sustainable food. We use Integrated Pest and Disease Management Practices (IPM), which means we rarely use non-natural methods of disease and pest control. Occasionally, when there is a possibility of crop loss and after using all natural cultural and chemical controls, we may have to use a traditional herbicide (on heavy bermuda patches 2 years prior to planting crops), fungicide (only on fruit crops), or pesticide (only on fruit crops when Organic measures could not control the pest - this has rarely occurred in the 2 years we have been growing fruit). Our chickens are rotated through our fields and eat lots of grass and bugs. They are supplemented with locally grown grains from Shawnee Mill, which are not guaranteed to NOT contain GMO, soy, herbicide, etc., unfortunately. However, we have been unable to find an organic feed source that is economical or that customers are willing to pay for. Their primary diet is a continual buffet of fresh grass, bugs, and garden cast-offs. We sell our produce during the summer at the Norman Farmer's Market Wednesdays and Saturdays 8am-noon, and at The Earth and Native Roots in Norman, through the coop here, and off the farm when anybody decides to drop by. Browse through our Products for Sale Practices (our standards for raising or making our products) We buy predominantly 'organic' or organically grown seeds or plants when possible from seed catalogs like Nichols Garden, Territorial Seed, Bountiful Gardens, and Baker's Creek (or from the co-op when available). We do not use herbicides or pesticides. We fertilize using city of Norman and our own compost, and OMRI and natural fertilizers from Fertrell (including Alfalfa, Kelp, Crab, Fish and other plant and animal meals SQM nitrate of soda, and Greensand). We try to control pest problems by companions planting, surrounding the garden with marigolds, and watching for problem infestations and using diatomacious earth or castor oil or pyrethrine based sprays (like Pyola or Pyganic). Ocassionally we have had to use herbicides on bermuda and fungicides on fruit (discussed above in IPM methods). Additional Information The primary goal of Barley's Garden Patch is to eventually be as self-sustaining as possible (providing all of our own compost, growing our own hay for the rabbits, and saving and using vegetable and herb seeds) using only natural methods in the process of growing heirloom varieties of many vegetable and herbs, to provide our neighbors and other Oklahomans with a safe and sustainable product. Highlights this Month Garlic is in the ground. Fall produce is growing and hoping it produces for your Thanksgiving tables! PROBLEMS WITH ORDERS: If, for any reason, you are unhappy with what we have sent you, please contact us about the problem, either by email or phone (enichols73@yahoo.com or 405-360-6715), and we will get you reimbursed either directly by us, or through the coop. |
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Prod.ID Product Name [About Producer] Prod.Type Price #12279 Free-range and pastured EGGS
Order number of dzs. From chickens that have never been fed any medicated ration and dine on lots of grass and bugs supplemented with some grains. Bright orange, healthy yokes and strong shells. Eggs are from assorted laying breeds and include different shades of brown eggs. We also have a green egg laying breed so each dozen will probably include at least one green egg.$4.50/dz