Fresh From the Farm Blog

With a little bit of warmer weather and rainfall, I started thinking about our garden and remembered that it is time to start tomato seeds indoors for transplanting into the garden after frost danger is over. I love to start tomato seeds with my grandchildren, they love to get their hands dirty and the process is really easy. For years when I ran a commercial greenhouse, we started seeds in special germinating flats and set them on heating mats to encourage germination. With my grands, I use Styrofoam egg cartons. Use scissors to remove the top of the carton and...

Where has this month gone…we were just celebrating the new year and now an entire month has passed! Here at Fredericksburg Farms we are readying our Spring and Summer 2024 offerings. With the strange weather we seem to be experiencing, some days it feels like Spring and then we get a cold snap and frost on the ground. I guess it is best to be prepared for anything that might come our way. We have seen snow, ice, power failures, and even 90+ degree days during the winter months in some years. Whatever the weather might bring here at Fredericksburg...

We love our big Fredericksburg Farms garden each year and start planning what to plant in January. Seed companies send out their annual catalogs after the first of the year and although most companies have their offerings online now, many still send a physical catalog in the mail. Those are the ones I look forward to perusing on a rainy day with a cup of hot tea, reading the descriptions for the juiciest tomatoes for canning, the best varieties of bell peppers, onions, squash, okra, lettuces, spinach and Swiss chard. Our offerings don’t often look like the pictures in the...

Cold weather calls for Fredericksburg Farms Chili…no beans! Around here we enjoy cooking up several crockpots of chili for all of our employees on a cold day using our Fredericksburg Farms Chili mixes. Add several pans of cornbread and you’re talking something tasty that can warm you up all day. Our mixes are easy to use and taste like you have spent all day in the kitchen making this goodness. Choose one to make for yourself, Texas Trail Drive Chili Mix, Venison Chili Mix, or Chili Verde Mix…you’ll be glad you did!

Each January is Jr. Stock show time in Gillespie County, and each junior participant has his or her animal entry looking the best they can. Fredericksburg Farms is proud to be a sponsor of the Gillespie County Jr. Livestock Show. Our kids showed pigs and steers when they were young and now our granddaughter, Amelia, shows chickens. Twenty-five little yellow fluffy chicks were picked up the week of Thanksgiving and now they are all fairly large white feathered “broilers.” They have been fed special foods, watered daily, encouraged to walk around to build muscle, and had their climate-controlled chicken house...