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Growing Seminole Pumpkin, the Sweet Florida Heirloom
It’s just as good as the Butternut squash… maybe even better. It’s native to Florida, sweeter in taste, and stores for much longer! Seminole pumpkin is a notorious and beautiful squash. They withstand the intense heat and humidity of the South, resist common pests, and produce a sweet, amber flesh. These pumpkins have been grown…
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Juicy Florida-grown Pears
We planted the first of our organic pear trees on our farm in Alachua County, FL over 15 years ago. Today, we have developed our orchard to bring you the best of summer pears right here in Florida. We’d like to introduce you to Hood, Carnes, Baldwin, and Pineapple! The first three varieties are hybrids…
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Japanese Eggplant
The Japanese/Asian eggplant is here! When we harvest the Japanese eggplants every three to four days, we see the benefits of alternating the planted rows of eggplants and peppers. They come from the same solanaceous family which also includes tomatoes and potatoes as flowering crops. On our fields in our organic farm in Alachua County,…
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Green Baby Cabbage
Green baby cabbage is from the cruciferous family, the same as brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, and collards. Technically these greens are exaggerated parts bred from the same species of plant, the Brassica oleracea. It may not seem like it but like the rest of the cruciferous family, the green cabbage is abundant in vitamins and…
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Cubanelle Peppers
Our delicious alternative to the bell pepper! Known and cooked throughout the world, cubanelle peppers brighten any summertime dish. Originally from South and Central America, and adapted to the island of Cuba, the cubanelle makes the best sofrito. We love it for stir-frying fajita style, with some sweet onions, a simple protein, and home-made tortillas.…
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Meet our Mushrooms
Grower – Fungi Jon Producer Bio on our Online Store Meet the man behind the mushrooms! We met Jonathan Martin, Fungi Jon, over a decade ago as an enthusiastic customer in Winter Park. He would come to our booth regularly to stock up and loved the food. When he started his own business with mushrooms,…
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Studies on the Moringa Plant
Moringa Oleifera, a plant from the family Moringacea, is a major crop in Asia and Africa. Moringa has been studied for its health properties, numerous bioactive components, including vitamins, phenolic acids, flavonoids, isothiocyanates, tannins and saponins. Did you know?Every part of the plant is edible — leaves, pods, seeds, flowers, even its root. The feathery…
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Benefits of Moringa
health benefits of moringa
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The Many Uses of Dill
The quick, easy, and aromatic jeand the butter will stay fresh in the refrigerator for several weeks providing you a tasty, herbalicious alternative to sautée your weekly share of vegetables in, or to butter your biscuits with. Ingredients 1/2 cup salted butter, softened2 tsp fresh dillPepper and any other dried herbs you have in…
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Romaine Calm & Eat Locally Grown Lettuce!
Here is some important information we would like you to know about our food safety practices at FSO and food borne illness in general: Regional Care: Outbreaks resulting i and blanket recalls are only possible due to the consolidation of our food system, including our dependence on huge farms in California and Arizona for a…
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Italian Basil: Florida-grown, organic!
When we first started growing basil almost any Italian variety would work in North Florida. Then came along Basil Downy Mildew, a disease that killed any heirloom or European basil variety (including Thai and Genovese). We struggled for over five years to fight the disease using organic methods without much success. Abundance didn’t return to…
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Frog Song Cured Onions
At Frog Song in Alachua County, FL, we grow a spring onion crop of Yellow Granex variety, which is the same for Vidalia onions. We sell our fresh onions during March and April. Once the tops “drop” in May we harvest our remaining crop to cure at our organic farm for sale during the summer.…
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All About Corn..
Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years (By Sean B. Carroll) It is now growing season across the Corn Belt of the United States. Seeds that have just been sown will, with the right mixture of sunshine and rain, be knee-high plants by the Fourth of July and tall stalks with ears ripe for…
