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Many years ago, Greg received a start from his Granny Epperson’s Night Blooming Cereus, which is a type of cactus (without the sharp needles) and, as it name indicates, blooms at night. Greg remembers seeing his Granny’s bloom only once, and it was a big deal. About 4 years ago, we put the Cereus and the Plumeria in the casita for winter. We had lights on timers and heaters to keep them warm, as [...] Continue Reading…
Mobile Marketing Comes to the Farm
Mobile MarketingMobile Marketing – technology’s current new application for retail marketing – has come to Hawkins Springs Farm. Steve, our web designer and marketing guru, has fixed us up so we can offer our loyal customers special discounts. It’s really pretty easy. The only thing our customers are required to do is subscribe to our Read the Rest…»
Stormy Weather in May
Everyone in Oklahoma is familiar with the type of weather we get in the springtime here. This year has been no exception – and we can probably expect it to continue through June. This last week has proven that the storms we get this time of the year can be exceedingly nasty and threatens all Read the Rest…»
Are you a Locavore?
Who, Me? A Locavore? What is that? If you are reading this, you probably are! This is a relatively new word for our society – derived from the current movement of people buying their food locally. Wikipedia defines it as “Those who prefer to eat locally grown/produced food”. It stems from the “collaborative effort to Read the Rest…»
Plasticulture Comes to Hawkins Springs Farm
Last fall we decided to apply for the Oklahoma Plasticulture Grant. After reading about plasticulture and all of its benefits, we thought this program would fit perfectly into our garden plans. Since we have a high water table on our farm, we make raised rows to plant our crops in and the Plasticulture program employs Read the Rest…»
Potatoes for 2011 Season
Uber Tubers! That is what we have at Hawkins Springs Farm this year! After much research and pontification over the winter, the seven varieties of potatoes were selected and five are new varieties for our garden – Purple Viking and Russian Banana Fingerling are still with us for an encore performance – the Purple Viking Read the Rest…»
Pepper Plants for the 2011 Season
All of the pepper seeds for the Hawkins Springs Farm 2011 Season have been planted. This year’s 27 varieties include a nice mix of hot and sweet peppers. All varieties are well suited to Oklahoma weather. New peppers for this season include a couple of new bell varieties and several varieties developed by the Chili Read the Rest…»
Spring Vegetables for the 2011 Season
The winter weeks seemed to have “inspired” Greg again – the varieties of vegetables to be grown for the spring and summer season have grown – again. We have several new kinds of carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, gourmet garlic and potatoes. In addition to those new varieties, our gardens will boast shallots, leeks, edamame, and Read the Rest…»
Habanero Salsa Is A Favorite
If we had counted all the yellow habanero peppers our five plants produced – well, we don’t think we could have. Every other day we probably picked 40-50 habaneros, and sometimes more. We asked ourselves, “What in the world are we going to do with all these?” We dried a lot for our ground pepper Read the Rest…»
Forrest Fire Salsa
“Forrest Fire” – our signature sweet and smokey salsa is 16 ounces of unique, wonderful flavor and made with 8 different, all ripe-red, chili peppers, which we grow in our garden. Contact us to reserve yours before it’s all gone – because when the peppers are gone – so is the salsa until next year. Read the Rest…»
Plants for 2010 Season
This year we raised approximately 500 tomato plants, including 24 heirloom and 6 hybrid varieties, and over 200 pepper plants, including the world’s hottest pepper, the Bhut Jalokia, as well as Red Savina Haberano, the world’s second hottest pepper. Other plants raised from seed included a wide variety of herbs, squashes, pumpkins, flowers, gourds, eggplant, Read the Rest…»
Raised Bed Project Part 1
Ronda and Greg both love to garden.We have lots of area on the grounds for a garden, but we decided to build a raised bed garden for many reasons. We built the frame from 2×8 red cedar purchased from a local sawmill. The cost was about 1/5 of what lumber yards wanted. The bed is Read the Rest…»
Hawkins Springs Farm
In the spring of 2009, we built a raised bed to raise a few vegetables for our family. The convenience of the raised bed was great. Use the above to learn more or click this link to view the progression of our original raised bed. The raised bed was expanded in 2010 along with adding Read the Rest…»
Night Blooming Cereus
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greg Farm Updates
May 14th, 2013 ronda Spring is upon us once again and it is planting time at Hawkins Springs Farm. We've had a few delays in getting the garden in due to the weather – rainy (but not complaining) and those last few cold blasts (complaining) which brought the temp down to as low as 26 degrees here in Ketchum, Oklahoma and even a dusting of snow about 10 days ago. . . weird weather.
We have 6 rows [...] Continue Reading…
Free Range Chickens at Hawkins Springs Farm
March 31st, 2012 ronda Last spring Greg picked up some Welsummer hens and a rooster at a local feed store. He was told they had belonged to a 4-H/FFA student who had them as a project. I fell in love with these chickens. The Welsummer rooster was the "poster rooster" for the Kellog's Cornflakes box – beautiful colors and an incredibly charming rooster with perfect manners. The hens lay the most incredible eggs – dark brown, and jumbo [...] Continue Reading…
Is Spring Around the Corner? A recap of fall and winter 2011.
January 30th, 2012 greg It has been six months since we have posted anything on here – I suppose we could blame it on the weather! Seriously, last summer was brutal. The intense and long lasting heat wave literally tried to suck the life out of everything, including the farmers. By the time it was over, everyone and everything was just so beat up from the heat, it has taken a while to get back to normal – [...] Continue Reading…
