The Farm Stand - July 5th, 2008
The farm stand is still open and going strong. Our cool weather that lead us into summer has been a godsend for the veggies, and so it looks like I’ll be open into August. This Saturday, Customer Appreciation Day Part 2 unfolds and once more I’ll have a bumper crop of all-natural fresh veggies for visitors at greatly reduced prices. Today’s photo is from last week’s selection of bell peppers I had for sale - this week, peppers will be one of the items with a big fat discount attached to them. Emmet, owner of Catering-2-You, will be on hand again at 7:00 am, promising not only hot dogs but some special items made up of veggies right from my farm. The rest of the line-up looks like this:
- Assorted peppers - only $1.00 per pound this Saturday
- Lots of tomatoes - only $1.00 per pound this Saturday
- Eggplant - again, only $1.00 per pount and only this Saturday
- Carrots - how’s a buck a pound sound?
- Summer squash - you won’t believe this: ONLY FIFTY CENTS A POUND - all types and sizes
- Italian red garlic - 2 bags for $5.00
- Regular garlic - $1.00 per pound
- Onions - dollar a pound
- Chard - we supply the bag, you fill it as full as you’d like for only $3.00
- Blue potatoes
- Cucumbers
- Basil
- String beans
- Figs
- Strawberries
- Beets
- Fresh Eggs
- Okra - not a lot
- Acorn squash
- A small variety of winter squash
Call 623-386-3033 if you have any special requests or need help with directions. The farm stand will open at 7:00 am and close at 12:00 noon, Saturday only.
Customer Appreciation Day Extended!
This past Saturday was a phenomenal day at the farm stand with lots of new faces and many returning visitors. If there was one complaint, it was from the folks who could not make it for my customer appreciation day due to prior commitments. After receiving many phone calls and emails I have decided to extend customer appreciation day to this coming Saturday, July 5th, 2008. The farm stand will once again feature sale prices on a wide range of my local all-natural better than organic veggies. Stay tuned to my website for announcements all this week telling you what will be on sale. A sincere Thank You! to all who stopped by to shop with us last Saturday and my heartfelt appreciation for all the wonderful compliments bestowed upon Jerry, Caroline, John, and myself.
Yowza!
What more can be said that the photo doesn’t already say? If you want to reside in the seat of fashion, when you want to let the world know you are a locavore of the first order, or you are going on a date with Brad Pitt or maybe Paris Hilton, it is time for you to put yourself in a Tonopah Rob’s Vegetable Farm t-shirt. Bright white t-shirt too loud for your liking? I have blue shirts too. The best part is that you can move up the social ladder and have a more thrilling life, just like my farm manager Jerry Roberts who is modeling this hot item which is available to you for only $12. That’s right, only $12.00. When was the last time you were able to be so cool for so little dough and without having to buy a convertible? Available this Saturday, just in time for customer appreciation day.
Carrots Love Tomatoes
Carrots in fact do love tomatoes, from a growers perspective anyway. And this Saturday you are going to love my price on carrots and tomatoes. June 28th starting at 7:00 am only at Tonopah Rob’s farm stand, carrots and tomatoes will be priced at $1.00 per pound. I’ll have purple carrots, white carrots, orange carrots, and yellow carrots. Tomatoes will be red, green, yellow, round, roma, big, and small. More than 100 pounds of carrots and more than 200 pounds 500 POUNDS of tomatoes are going to the farm stand this Saturday - if you want to take advantage of these great “Customer Appreciation” day prices, I suggest you come early.
Here is the full price list of those items on sale this Saturday:
- Tomatoes $1.00 per pound
- Carrots $1.00 per pound
- Onions $1.00 per pound
- Garlic $1.00 per pound
- Squash $0.50 per pound
- Chard $3.00 for all you can stuff in a bag (I supply) - no Hefty bags
Chardville
Jumpin’ Jehosaphat, those chard leaves sure are mighty big. This coming Saturday June 28th you will be invited to stuff as much chard as you desire into a bag (that I supply and no, it won’t be the size of a teaspoon) and it will only cost $3.00. Chard is one of the items on sale this weekend as part of my customer appreciation day. So if you are keeping score, chard will be $3.00 per bag, squash is only 50 cents per pound, and onions for a buck a pound. Wow - you haven’t seen prices of fresh all-natural and local food like this since Christopher Columbus discovered Arizona. Heck I may as well tell you now that I will also have garlic on sale for $1.00 a pound. You read that right, a dollar a pound. Compare that to your favorite organic grocery store that is selling the same thing for $5.49 a pound! Tomorrow I’ll tell you my prices for tomatoes and carrots.
Farm Stand - Saturday June 28, 2008
By now you probably know that this coming Saturday, June 28th, is customer appreciation day here at Tonopah Rob’s Vegetable Farm. Every day this week I’ll be giving more information regarding the sale prices that will be lowered in time for the 4th of July celebration just around the corner.
This photo of yummy summer squash is the clue that squash will be one of the items with super low prices this Saturday, honoring my customers who have made this year so successful. So how low can I go? How does 50 cents per pound sound? That’s right, only half a buck per pound for fresh crisp squash I have not even picked yet - that’s how fresh it will be.
Of course there will be plenty more veggies available at the farm stand such as:
- SQUASH!
- Blue potatoes
- Yummy tender squash
- Green beans
- Kaleidoscope carrot mix
- Beets with greens
- Large selection of onions
- Green onions
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Large Tomatoes
- Heirloom Roma Tomatoes
- Yellow Tomatoes
- Cucumbers
- Assorted peppers
- Eggplant
- Garlic
- Strawberries
- Fresh eggs
- Basil
- Even more squash
- Maybe a surprise or two
There will be drinks, hot dogs, and fresh perc’ed coffee from mom’s 1969 avocado green coffee pot. Farm tours are free as always. See you under the big blue tents this Saturday.
Customer Appreciation Day
We are counting down the days to this Saturday when Tonopah Rob’s first annual customer appreciation day kicks off. First up on the list to tease you into stopping by for the big sale - ONIONS! This Saturday, June 28th only, I will be selling onions for only $1.00 per pound. You will not find a tastier onion in all of Arizona and this weekend you might not find cheaper onions either. All week I will be posting more prices and information regarding customer appreciation day at my farm. Directions to the farm can be found by clicking on the link at the top of the page. The farm stand opens at 7:00 a.m., call 623-386-3033 if you have questions.
Attention Customers!
Cluck on over to Tonopah Rob’s Vegetable Farm stand this coming Saturday June 28th for some early Independence day shopping for locally produced, all-natural vegetables when Tonopah Rob clobbers high prices in time for your big 4th of July celebration. As the heat of summer bears down on us, the cost of gas soars, and food prices skyrocket, I thought it was time to give my customers a break by lowering prices at my farm stand. Saturday June 28th is Customer Appreciation day at Tonopah Rob’s Vegetable Farm and prices will be slashed.
The farm stand will open at 7:00 and remain open while supplies last, until noon, or when the heat knocks us out. You will find “Blue Star” specials on:
- Tomatoes
- Squash
- Onions
- Chard
- Carrots
Free coffee, free parking, free smiles, a handful of dirt for free, free farm tours, free sunburns for those hanging out away from the shaded farm stand, free help to your car with the tons of veggies you are going to buy, free but useless advice, a hard time for free if that’s what you need, and a free carrot to the first Bajillion shoppers - now ain’t that better than the stick? You know, carrot, stick? Well, I hope you got it. Stay tuned to my website for further announcements.
Greetings, Earthlings!
Farm Stand - 21 June 2008
This week’s special: dry onion skins. Great prices on dusty dry onion skins, only at Tonopah Rob’s Vegetable Farm stand this Saturday!!! Just kidding everyone. I just loved this photo and had to share it with readers, and how else was I supposed to lead in to this week’s farm stand list using a photo of onion skins?
What I will have at the farm stand this Saturday will be simply wonderful: flavorful, nutritious, and all-natural better than organic produce right from the field, picked in the days before the market. Visit us, starting at 7:00 a.m., out here in Tonopah and pick up some fresh produce for you and your family. You will find:
- Round and roma tomatoes - bulk prices are available
- Sweet red cherry tomatoes
- Green beans - dragon tongue, green string, Italian flat pods, and more
- Summer squash - mouthfuls of delicious yumminess
- Baby beets
- Sweet crunchy carrots
- Eggplant - soak in olive oil and garlic, then broil till browned
- Sweet bell peppers - huge ones, great for stuffing
- Basil
- Italian sweet garlic
- White garlic
- Cool cucumbers
- Strawberries
- Fresh eggs
- Sweet onions of all colors and sizes
- Fresh cut flowers
- Farm tours
Over the next few weeks I should start harvesting blue potatoes, assorted winter squash, figs, and if all goes well, five flavors of watermelon.
Beans
This past weekend green beans were a hot seller. The dragon tongue beans, which taste just like regular green beans, only better, were almost as popular. As I try to offer varieties of vegetables not found in the large grocery stores, I have a hope that customers will be a little more adventurous when it comes to trying produce not found elsewhere. But as the creatures of habit that we are, people unfamiliar with new varieties are sometimes slow to decide to take the plunge. I would like to continue offering these rare veggies but will need the support of my customers to step up and try things like purple carrots, cranberry beans, purple and orange cauliflower, mantanghong radishes, and dragon tongue beans. It wasn’t too long ago that most of us bought iceberg lettuce exclusively, now how many turn up their nose to plain old iceberg and have been opting for red leaf, butterhead, romaine, and exotic salad mix lettuces? Maybe I should write Paula Deen from the Food Channel and ask her to do a show about strange vegetables.
Dill Seed
Over near the cherry tomatoes are some dill plants that have gone to seed, these are those seeds. Sometimes the greatest beauty can be found in the smallest of things.
InBuckeye News
A big Thank You! to InBuckeye Daily News and Melissa Thomas for the feature story they published about my farm here in Tonopah, Arizona. They even put me on the home page - wow! For those of you with a sharp eye, see that temperature reading on the top of the webpage? It reads 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius). This screen capture was taken at 8:00 a.m. and if you look even closer it says we are supposed to go up to 113 degrees this afternoon or 45 Celsius. Just five days ago I posted that it was a mere 100 degrees, suppose next week I’ll be writing how it’s now 120 on my farm.
Save The Goldfish?
Some of you might have noticed that I offer goldfish for sale at my Saturday farm stand, well, none of you were buying any and now a black crowned night heron is all the happier for it. This new visitor to Tonopah Rob’s vegetable farm has taken a liking to the pond which “used-to-be” filled with nearly 200 goldfish. About 140 of them have found their way into this beautiful bird. No more sluggish fish live in these waters, the remaining goldfish are 100 meter dash candidates for the Summer Olympics. The school is getting thin and I am considering embarking on a “Save the Goldfish” campaign. On the other hand, maybe I should ask for fish donations instead so that the heron becomes a permanent resident.
Tomatoes - Lots of Tomatoes!
While the rest of the United States suffers without tomatoes, visitors to Tonopah Rob’s farm stand will find plenty of delicious summer sweet vine ripened tomatoes for sale. Today we picked close to 400 pounds of ‘em. Friday morning we will harvest nearly 20 pounds of cherry tomatoes, both golden and red cherry. Our CSA or community supported agriculture customers will find a bag of tomatoes in their produce selection, so no worries there. My tomatoes exceed organic standards folks, this means I use NO chemicals, petroleum products, gases, growth enhancers, tricks, shenanigans, or monkey business in growing my tomatoes. I only use the earth, sunlight, fresh water, natural vegetable matter, compost, natural fertilizers, and a lot of tender loving care. It took nearly 5 hours today to pick and gingerly set these unbruised tomatoes into boxes so my customers can have the absolute best selection. If you are looking for the best local food in Arizona, are in need of finding a real farmers market where the food is grown right before your eyes, then come on out to Tonopah, Arizona this Saturday, take a farm tour, and sample some seriously yummy all-natural produce from my very own little farm.
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