October Autumn Greetings! We so enjoyed hosting three classes of 2nd Graders from Harrison School. They walked up to the Farm from the school and then toured around the farm and greenhouses, before settling into a project of exploring the flower seed crop field and drawing different kinds of insects they saw in the flowers ..read more

  The Green Kingdom By Cornelia Funke & Tammi Hartung Caspia’s summer is transformed when she discovers a bundle of letters containing ten plant-based riddles in this enchanting adventure. Twelve-year-old Caspia hates big cities, especially New York. So, she isn’t thrilled by the news that her parents are taking her to Brooklyn for the whole ..read more

Autumn Greetings, This coming Saturday, September 28th, from 9 am to ? (whenever I get tired or everything is gone), I am holding my annual Free Market in the front yard of our farm.       A Free Market is just like a yard sale, except everything is FREE!!  There are a lot of household items, some ..read more

Greetings Friends! It is tree fruit harvest season and nothing much else can make me smile more!! This morning found me picking peaches from the two peach trees in Cedar’s play yard. Some were shared, but most will be eaten fresh or put in the freezer for Chris and I to enjoy now and in ..read more

Mid-August Greetings! Grasshoppers continue to be a huge challenge for us here at Desert Canyon Farm, but thankfully, Chris’ work applying Neem extract to many of the plants that we need to harvest is helping some. It’s not a magic bullet solution by any means, but I’m starting to harvest a few cucumbers and yellow ..read more

July Greetings, The grasshoppers are still at war with us and they are winning!  They have destroyed many of the seed crops for this year, ruined a lot of nursery plants for next spring, eaten much of the food garden, and made sure that the gardens don’t look very good. They are TERRIBLE, we are FRUSTRATED, and hoping we will have a really cold winter this year so that all their eggs will be killed and next year will be better! In the meantime, here is what is happening around here… Thanks to Kaila and Eric for picking the currants in the food garden for me. I’ve been swamped trying to m ..read more

Mid-Summer Greetings, In my last post, I told you that we were under siege by grasshoppers. We are and they are getting worse! We’ve had terrible grasshopper years in the past, but both Chris and I feel like this is the worse year we’ve ever had dealing with grasshoppers! They are everywhere, even on the non-edible sides of our buildings. They are eating all the plants in our nursery and in the flower seed crop field and the gardens. Chris is trying to manage them  by spraying the plants that we need crops from, with Neem Extract, and that is helping, but as the grasshoppers keep increas ..read more

Summer Greetings, The Farm Stand and Open Farm Days are finished now until April 2025. Now our attention is turned to other tasks and things to be done. Last weekend found us in Lincoln, NE with all our family and so many friends to celebrate Chris’ Dad’s life and to share our sadness that he has passed over. It was a time for visiting and storytelling and sharing tears and smiles. After our return home, it really struck us at how much there is to be done right now around the farm. All the plants that were leftover in the Farm Stand store have been moved into the other cooler greenhouses an ..read more

Greetings Friends, Just a quick message to let you know that Open Farm Days are closed now and the Farm Stand Plant Sale is over until next spring, April 2025. The Farm is now back to wholesale only. Thank you for all your smiles and support! We so appreciate it. With Green Thoughts, Chris and Tammi and the Farm Crew ..read more

Summer Greetings! This coming weekend (June 8th and 9th) are the final days that we will be open to the public to visit the Farm and shop for plants in our Farm Stand store. We’re hoping that we will see you all for a final visit this weekend, and then next Monday we will return the Farm to wholesale only. Our hours are 9am to 4pm and remember that we are closed on Friday (tomorrow). Chris, Eric and Kaila have been working nearly every day to prepare the flower seed field for planting and they have planted many of the new seed crops already. We needed to add manure to the field this year, so ..read more