Three Sisters Farm

Farm Stand- Today!

FarmerJen — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:07:18 +0000

Today we will be selling our vegetables and eggs at our corner farm stand. We’ll have our free range (corn and soy free) chicken eggs, tomatoes, sugar snap peas, tatume squash, potatoes, and peppers. Come see us from 4-6pm. We’ll … Continue reading →

Three Sisters Farm Welcomes Students from Shady Oak PreSchool

FarmerJen — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:04:19 +0000

What a great visit! Farmer Jen and Farmer Peg welcomed 67 children and adults for a “hands on” field trip. Students learned about vegetable gardening, what parts of the plants we eat, and got to help harvest sugar snap peas and radishes. They were a big help!

The kids also got to see Farmer Peg’s worm farm. They kids loved touching the worms and learning about vermi-composting.

I think the favorite part of the day was when we visited the chickens! Students got to pet and feed the chickens and gather eggs from the nesting boxes.

Master Gardeners Visit Three Sisters Farm

FarmerJen — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:57:45 +0000

We were pleased to have the Fort Bend County Master Gardeners tour our farm. Our guests were able to see how we use sustainable methods to grow our food. Farmer Peg educated the group on vermi-composting, using worm castings and worm “doo” tea to fertilize our garden beds. Farmer Jen got to show off the chickens and our visitors got to feed and pet the chickens as well as picking eggs from under the hens in the nesting boxes.

Open Farm- Sunday April 28th, 2-5pm

FarmerJen — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:03:04 +0000

It’s your day to visit the farm! We’ll show you where your vegetables are grown, and you will meet the chickens that lay your delicious egs!

Visit our garden beds and see what we have in store for you this spring.

We’ll have live music, good food, and Sangria!

We hope to see you soon.

It’s Spring!

FarmerJen — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:17:24 +0000

Finally! We are excited about our gardens this year. Along with supplying Oxheart restaurant http://www.oxhearthouston.com/, we are selling our produce and eggs at the Richmond Farmer’s Market, in Richmond Texas https://www.facebook.com/richmondfarmersmarket?ref=ts&fref=ts.

Famous Tomatoes and Eggs

FarmerJen — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:10:53 +0000

Photo courtesy of Oxheart Restaurant

Yesterday we got the very first (maiden) egg from the baby chicks we bought back in February. It is tiny…

Maiden egg on the right

And we are up to today’s excitement! 99.9% of our spring tomato harvest has gone to a restaurant called Oxheart. The Houston Chronicle’s food critic, Alison Cook, put together a list of the Top 100 Houston Restaurants. She named Oxheart the #1 restaurant in Houston. The print copy of the review came out in today’s Houston Chronicle 29-95 section. Here is a picture of the paper:

Yes, those are our tomatoes on the cover of the paper! We are very excited. If you go to the online article, and scroll halfway down the page you will see another picture of our tomatoes, and we are even mentioned by name!
http://pix.29-95.com/2012/section/alison-cooks-top-100-houston-restaurants/

If feels good to know that what we are producing is good enough to make it into the finest restaurants in Houston. And congratulations to Justin, Justin, Karen, and the entire Oxheart staff for your #1 ranking. We feel very fortunate be be working with you.

Spring peppers…

Three Sisters Farm — Sat, 26 May 2012 18:13:05 +0000

Egg in an Egg

FarmerJen — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:12:56 +0000

We collected this HUGE egg at the farm a couple days ago…

Cracked it open and…

Yes, that is an egg that was inside another egg. We broke open that egg, and it was just a normal egg. And, no, we didn’t eat either egg.

Clever girl…

Three Sisters Farm — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:24:22 +0000

The hens we bought in October have started laying. The first ones to start laying at the farm were the leghorns, which started laying about 2 weeks ago. Our leghorns are our only chicken variety that lays white eggs, so it was easy to tell who was laying. We kept a leghorn at the house in our pet flock (her name is Blanco), but there haven’t been any white eggs in the nesting boxes. All of our other pet birds from the October hens have started laying, so we have been searching the yard looking to see if she was laying somewhere outside of the nesting boxes. Our yard isn’t that big, so it is an easy search… unless she is hiding her eggs.

Yesterday I was out wandering in the yard, and saw Blanco sitting in the back of one of my large potted bamboos. All of the hens dig in the bamboos, and do their dust baths in the larger pots, so I didn’t think anything of it. 10 minutes later she was messing around with the bamboo leaves that had fallen in the pot, and then she jumped out, and started doing the egg bragging clucks… when chickens lay their eggs they typically leave the nest and walk around bragging very loudly about their accomplishment. When I saw her strutting around doing her clucks I put 2 and 2 together and went to look in the pot.

I didn’t see anything at first glance, but upon further inspection I found what we had been searching for.

She had dug a nest, lined it with bamboo leaves, had been laying her eggs in the nest, and then covering them up with more bamboo leaves.

Closer view:

We robbed her nest of the eggs, but left the nest intact. It will be interesting to see if she continues to lay in the pot, or if she starts laying in the nesting box.

A walk through the garden

Three Sisters Farm — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:16:36 +0000

This spring has been very wet and warm, and the plants have taken notice. As I was walking through the home vegetable garden on March 31st I was pleasantly surprised at what I found. I went back inside to get the camera, because being from Minnesota you aren’t supposed to have fresh veggies in March. The following is a sample of what I found:

First up: Peppers!

Gypsy Peppers

Golden Treasure Pepper

Golden Marconi Pepper

Next comes the tomatoes:

Lots of tomatoes!

Early Girl (maybe?)

Lots of cherry type tomatoes

Our basil is doing awesome. We plucked some and made bruschetta for dinner last night.

Sweet Basil

A couple 65 gallon pots full of potatoes…

Potatoes

And of course no post would be complete without a picture of a chicken, who desperately wants to get into the garden and eat everything green.

Mandy, the destroyer of vegetables