This Coming Sunday’s Pop-Up Menu
There are so many fewer butterflies flitting about the world than I remember as a child, so it’s fun to see them enjoying the flower gardens on the farm.
The farm swarms with bees, but they’re too busy to notice us. My favorites are the Bumble Bees. This one is diving into a yellow zinnia.
Hi Folks: We’re looking forward to seeing you at our first pop-up of the 2026 summer season this coming Sunday in Dogpatch across the street from Piccino Restaurant @ 1001 Minnesota Street , SF, from 9:30 am to 12:30 in the afternoon. We will be showing up with our friends from Farm Cat Marmalade too. As I write this note to you I’m not quite sure of the amount of tomatoes that we’ll be able to harvest so we will present our initial harvest on a first come, first serve basis, but I imagine we’ll come with plenty of Dry-Farmed Early Girls and Sungold Cherry Tomatoes, and possibly our first heirlooms and Piennolos too! We will be offering the tomatoes “mix and match” in pint baskets and by 10 & 20 pound cases as well. And I know we’ll have plenty of tomatillos. Also on the menu are fragrant bags of Genovese, Greek, Tuscan, and Thai basils, as well as Basilico Piccolo Fino Verde, some Tulsi, and some Purple Basil as well. Our Austrailian Finger Limes are getting ready to pick, and I’ll also harvest Persian limes, Meyer Lemons, Lisbon lemons, Assadas Citron (Etrog) and Buddha’s Hand citrons. We’ve been growing an interesting cooking green for our local Oaxacan community called “Alache,” so I’ll bring some of that for any curious cooks who want to do a deep dive into the foodways of Southern Mexico. Our cut flower program is doing well this year, so we’ll prepare a feast for the eyes too. When you walk down 22nd Street and turn onto Minnesota you will not miss seeing our market stall because the colors are going to pop!
Frogs are under a lot of pressure from habitat loss so it’s comforting to see them every day on the farm. Starr surprised this one when she moved a potted plant, but the frog settled back down again in the Aloe bush once the drama passed to await a tasty mosquito. Frogs are so much better for the environment than chemical pesticides.
Everybody made flower garlands at our previous “5 Senses” workshop that focused on the sense of smell.
Flowers and bouquets will be the focus of our 5th and final “Five Senses” workshops. We’re billing this August 8th tour of the flower gardens and bouquet building workshop as “Seeing,” but flowers are all about “smelling” too, and some of them are about tasting. Besides a tour of the flower gardens, a walk in the Lavender Labyrinth and a bouquet workshop our friend and Collaborator, Wild Beauty Cosmetics, from Soquel, will be on hand to give mini-facials that focus on the eyes. You can sign up for this workshop on the “Events” page of this web page. Thanks, Starr & Andy
This photo of last year’s Piennolo crop has me looking forward to this year’s fruit.
The roses were leaking some color into the sky the other day, or is it the other way around?
Our cat, Samson, putting the Ellagance Purple Lavender in context. Starr will have some of her lavender products available in the farm store.
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