OPEN Thurs, Sat, Sunday - U-Pick Lettuce & Bedding Plants

 

Our pick you own lettuce is ready! We have several different varieties of red & green leaf lettuce, butterhead, and Romaine! It's just inside the deer fence, beside the strawberry patch. Our greenhouse will be OPEN Thursday, April 10th, 9-5. We'll be closed on Friday, and back OPEN this weekend: Saturday 8-5 & Sunday 9-4.

April is here, and it's a great time to get your garden going! We currently have 24 varieties of tomatoes available: German Johnson, Bush Champion, Mountain Fresh, Brandywine, Beef Master (Beefsteak), Better Boy, Early Girl, Super Fantastic, Mr. Stripey, Pink Girl, Park's Whopper Improved CR, Lemon Boy, Big Boy, Goliath, Mortgage Lifter, Rutgers, Juliet Hybrid, Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, Patio, Supersweet 100, Sungold, Large Red Cherry, and La Roma. Nothing tastes quite like a homegrown tomato!

👀 The very first strawberry is ripe in the field! We are thinking it's likely going to be the last third of April by the time we have enough in production to be open for u-pick, but it's always exciting to spot the first ripe berry of the season!

Details:

14489 Bethel Church Lane, Smithfield, VA 23430

U-Pick Lettuce = $2/head

Bedding plants = $3.50 per 4-pack or $29 per flat. There are 12 total 4-packs in each flat.

*Volume Discount: When you purchase 2 or more flats, the price drops to $25/flat.

4 inch annuals & perennials = $4.84 per container. These are sold individually (no flat price on 4inch annuals & perennials).

Cash, Check, & Credit Cards accepted

Thanks for pickin' us!

Closed Monday, OPEN Tuesday - Thursday, 9AM - 5PM

 

Thank you for an incredible opening weekend in the greenhouse! We're thankful that the rain will be rolling in tomorrow to wash away all this pollen. We'll be CLOSED on Monday, April 7.

Our greenhouse will be OPEN Tuesday - Thursday, 9AM - 5PM. In addition to our greenhouse being open with a wide variety of bedding plants, our lettuce is now ready to be picked! $2 per head, pick-your-own.

*This picture is from a week ago. It has since doubled in size!

Update: The strawberries are looking good and will likely be ready for picking around Easter or later.

Opening Weekend

Wow! What a great opening weekend at the greenhouse! It's been wonderful to see you all! We'll be open today, April 5th until 4PM and tomorrow, Sunday, 9AM - 3PM. The butterflies love these Gerbera Daisies! The geraniums are beautiful in bloom! Loads of different varieties of tomatoes plus straight neck & crookneck yellow squash & so much more. Beautiful day to get some plants in the ground. 

 

Opening Weekend at Browder's Fresh Pickins!

 

It's that time of year! We are opening our greenhouse for the season. We will be OPEN Friday, April 4th, 9AM – 5PM, Saturday, 8AM - 4PM, and Sunday 9AM-3PM. Our greenhouse is bursting with hundreds of flats of bedding plants - flowers, herbs, and vegetable transplants. Now is a great time to get your landscape, garden, raised bed, or herb bowl planted. Come early for maximum selection.

The strawberries are continuing to ripen each day...we’ll keep you posted on their progress

Details:

14489 Bethel Church Lane, Smithfield, VA 23430

Bedding plants = $3.50 per 4-pack or $29 per flat. There are 12 total 4-packs in each flat.

*Volume Discount: When you purchase 2 or more flats, the price drops to $25/flat.

4 inch annuals & perennials = $4.84 per container

Cash, Check, & Credit Cards accepted

Thanks for pickin' us!

Weekend Farm Update

April is almost here and we're getting closer to opening our greenhouse for the season!

We spent most of the weekend planting thousands of plants. Mostly different cut flower varieties for our new bouquet garden but also some seedless watermelon, yummy peppers & bell peppers as well as some tomatoes & cucumbers in our smaller greenhouse.

Our blueberries are really starting to leaf out.

On the heels of a chilly winter, Mother Nature is taking her sweet time ripening the strawberries, and it'll be several more weeks before the berries are ripe enough to pick.

The clover cover crop is lush and doing great work keeping the soil healthy.

We're looking forward to opening our big greenhouse for bedding plants soon - more details to come!

 

 

Frost Blankets

It'll be a little chilly for our tender blooms tonight, so we covered our strawberry plants with frost blankets. It may be the last time we have to cover for the season.

 

 

Strawberry Blooms

 

February Showers Bring March Flowers,

March Flowers Bring April Strawberries!

Our Tractor, 10 Years Later

 

We're coming up on the ten year anniversary of when we added the 5th member to our family: this John Deere Tractor. Here's what Jake posted the day we got it in March 2015, "After 5 years of working with hand tools, a 60-year-old Farmall 140 that belonged to my grandfather, and kindness from friends...Amanda and I decided to get a new (nearly) 55hp John Deere with front end loader. I don't know who likes it more. Lucy, me, Amanda or Henry....we are all overjoyed! It should make our future production a million times more efficient, especially with the loader."

In the past decade, we've logged 1,500 hours on the tractor, and it's been one of the best investments we've ever made! We'd like to thank our good friend Dwight for finding the tractor for us 10 years ago, and also for finding us this Perfecta Field Cultivator that we recently purchased.

Planting Vegetables

The weather is warming. We planted our first vegetable crops of the 2025 season! Lettuce, onions, and new this year, broccoli!