In our spare time, which has almost been nil, we have been researching e-commerce software. At this date, we haven't made a decision because of not being really satisfied with the "shopping carts" available to us. So, until we do get that decided, if anyone would like to place a mail order for any of our products, send us an e-mail detailing what you want, along with your address, and we will calculate shipping [...] 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…»
Gardening Update At Hawkins Springs Farm
November 9th, 2010 
ronda In the garden arena, we currently have a limited supply of lettuce available: leaf lettuce – green Simpson and red Merlot; head lettuce – Romaine and Butterhead. We’ve been covering these on the very cold nights and are doing quite well. We also have broccoli and cauliflower growing. We got a late start with those but hopefully we will have a nice crop soon – they [...] Continue Reading…
Tulsa Quilts for Kids
November 8th, 2010 ronda On a different note, I have recently been contracted to develop a specialized hand cream by the Tulsa Quilts for Kids organization. Having lived in Tulsa for many years before moving to the Grand Lake area, I have many friends there. Two of these friends started “Tulsa Quilts for Kids” about two years ago and what great things they have accomplished. In that short time, [...] Continue Reading…
Holiday Market At The Artichoke Restaurant
November 8th, 2010 ronda Currently, Greg and I are both busy getting ready for the November 20, 2010 Holiday Market sponsored by The Artichoke Restaurant. This will be our first year to participate and we are looking forward to the event. I am busy making specialty bath and body products just for the holidays and Greg is flexing his creative techno skills and creating a special 2011 calender featuring his astrophotography [...] Continue Reading…
