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…
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…»
Are you a Locavore?
April 4th, 2011 
ronda 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 build more locally based, self-reliant food economies – one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is [...] Continue Reading…
Plasticulture Comes to Hawkins Springs Farm
March 27th, 2011 ronda 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 this method, plus installs the irrigation tubing and plastic row covers. What a labor savings this is for us! [...] Continue Reading…
New Barn Update – Looking Great!
March 27th, 2011 ronda We are so excited about our new barn at Hawkins Springs Farm – it’s not finished yet, but it’s getting closer and closer. There have been a few hurdles and hoops to jump over and through, but we are getting it done. Below is a pictorial of the progress to date – from pouring the barn foundation through this Friday’s porch pouring. The barn we ordered was totally open on one end – which [...] Continue Reading…
