Tonopah Rob's Vegetable Farm

I know, our parents told us we’d grow carrots in our ears if we didn’t keep them clean. I swear I keep mine clean, have so for many a year, but I admit, somehow I have broccoli coming out of my ears. Don’t try writing me to correct me, I am certain it is not cauliflower ear that afflicts me, never been a boxer. So I am sure it is broccoli. Don’t pity me, I am not here looking for donations for medical help (although after reading this a second time I can see some of the readership thinking that might be just what I need) but I am hoping for a few strong shoppers to come along and help relieve me of this burden of more broccoli than any one person should be in possesion of. For your efforts, I promise not to get into the details about the snowballing cauliflower I have going on out here. Ok, that was farm humor, get it, snowballing as in the type of brassica, Snowball Cauliflower – keep your groans to yourselves. Guess my humor is kind of cornball, OMG isn’t that funny too, you know, CORN – the kind you eat, not the band, youngsters. I better get serious here or the people who are visiting my blog might get impatient with this nonsensical banter and get the idea a good beeting around the head and shoulders might help get things serious around here….beet, head (like lettuce), I kill me. [20 minutes later] – I sat here trying to find some way, any way, to come up with some quality Swiss chard or radish humor and have been left short. If there are any aspiring writers out there who could help with future blog entries and some side-splitting laughs regarding veggies, I’m all ears – aaaahhhh there I go again, ears, as in corn.

And now for something completely different. This Valentines Day weekend all my fruits and veggies will be heart shaped for your loved ones. You may never have thought of giving veggies as a Valentines day gift, then again never before has a farmer delivered heart shaped lettuce, beets, carrots, even the eggs were laid in heart shape – some I have even pierced with a little arrow and Jerry has been busy writing little messages on them just like on the candy hearts, things like; Two Hearts, Kiss Me, Marry Me, and the ever popular Love Me Tender. So come out to the Farm Stand out here in Tonopah on Saturday or the Farmers Market we have set up on Estrella Parkway on Sundays and feel the love, share the love, be the love.

Attention: Yes I am open Valentines Day weekend – but I will be closed February 20 & 21 to attend a farming conference – sorry, it is not a writing conference. The veggie list:

• Swiss Chard
• Cilantro
• Amazingly sweet carrots
• Other fresh herbs
• Salad Sweeties
• Beets
• Frenchies
• Watermelon Radishes
• Daikons-you should try crock potting a roast and use one or two for seasoning
• Super delicious broccoli
• Snowball Cauliflower
• Assorted Lettuce Heads
• All kinds of really sweet citrus
• The freshest eggs-all laid in the U.S.A.
• Salad Mix
• Green Garlic-this variety has been in my family for over 95 years. Great-Great Grandma brought it over from the old country-Sicily!!
• Super duper yummy red green onions.
• So stock up on your veggies this week because we won’t see you for two weeks.

For the Sunday shoppers at the ACE Hardware parking lot where we set up the old blue tents the following vendors will be joining me:

• SASSY SALSA
• JOE THE FISH MAN
• GREAT HARVEST BREAD CO.
• MADE BY BEES – Oh my!! You’ve got to try his home made honey mustard. I was a ketchup freak and now I’m going mustard freak.
• THE TAMALE STORE
• THE FUDGE LADY
• CROW’S DAIRY-The feta is yummy.