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…»
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…»
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…»
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…»
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…»
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…»
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…»
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” – 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…»
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…»
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…»
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…»
May 25th, 2011 
ronda 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 of us.
The outbreak of tornadoes this past week has been exceptionally damaging. On Sunday, May 22, 2011, a series [...] Continue Reading…
May 2nd, 2011 ronda We’ve all heard it before – Mom always told us we had to eat our vegetables – spinach makes you strong; carrots help you see in the dark; those are the two that I remember the most. When I was growing up, I don’t believe the science was behind that infamous directive we heard regularly, but apparently all moms knew what was good for us. But today is different. The numerous studies performed by [...] Continue Reading…
April 21st, 2011 ronda We all know the saying about Oklahoma weather – if you don’t like it, just wait a minute because it will change. And that’s certainly been the case this April – talk about yo-yo effect – one day it’s in the 80′s and 90′s and the next it’s down in the 40′s – and recently it’s gotten down in the 30′s a few nights. These sort of weather changes make it verrrry difficult to [...] Continue Reading…
April 7th, 2011 ronda On top of our projects at Hawkins Springs Farm this spring, we adopted 2 blue heeler (Australian Shepherd) pups and then Greg brought home some chickens one afternoon. We’d been talking about getting chickens for over a year now, but were always too busy to get a habitat prepared. . . he just couldn’t pass these up when he saw them, so we were forced to get a habitat ready – in a hurry! [...] Continue Reading…
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