Tonopah Rob's Vegetable Farm

Best market ever! That is how I would describe this last weekend. So many of my veggies sold out, so many familiar and just as many new faces lining up to partake in the best farmers market in Phoenix, Arizona and beyond.  Your support for what I do and the enthusiasm you greeted all of the new [...]

What a week it’s been. A deep freeze, dropping the temperatures down into the low 20′s (-5c for the rest of the world), hit the farm hard. A patch of tomato plants from which I picked last week’s green tomatoes is dead and gone, the remaining green beans froze on the vine, okra turned black [...]

Well well well, summer is now truly over and our Arizona version of fall is here. There will be a posting soon telling the specific date and what I’m likely to have on offer for my grand re-opening in November. For today though, an update how things are going round here. We’ll start with the [...]

Today’s photo was taken a bit more than a week ago as I was watering a plot of beets that were just planted. Now,  the seeds are sprouting with tiny green leaves pushing their way through the soil. The cucumbers are coming up great as are most of the beans, although it looks like I might have to sow some more bean [...]

These flowers from May are but a reminder of what’s coming back. As you may remember from my last blog post, I have been busy planting for the upcoming season. The great news is that much of my seed stock is getting in to the ground early this year. If I’m lucky the seedlings will grow strong earlier and be [...]

The new chicken coop is nearly finished. The land where the chilies used to grow was cleared and with some help from Jerry and John we have a new place for the chickens to dwell – yeah, this was a bit of corny Elvis reference. Most of the work was done prior to my well-deserved vacation [...]

Listen up you turkey’s, it’s time to fly the coop and head to the border. Well, not all the way to the border, but at least as far as San Diego, California. Goodbye you clucking chickens, sayonara to the snakes, later you leathery lizards, ta-ta to the turkeys, arrivederci to the Arizona August heat and [...]

As I can see folks are still visiting my website, I thought I would try to post periodic updates over the summer, so visitors can catch a glimpse into the work that goes on during these severely hot days, when we prep the farm for November’s re-opening. So, in case you haven’t read the news yet, [...]

Pssst, want in on a little secret? You may have read that we are on an extended siesta, waiting for the extraordinary heat of summer to give way to the normal heat of late summer/fall (who really knows when summer becomes fall becomes winter around here anyway?). And, in your reading of my site you [...]

If I had a photo of the sun, the insides of a volcano, or maybe atoms splitting to demonstrate the heat I am feeling out here I would have had a fitting picture to go along with today’s list of vegetables that will be available at my farm this Saturday. But, I do not have [...]

This Saturday there are two special events out here at Tonopah Rob’s Vegetable Farm, not only is it Independence Day, it is once again Customer Appreciation Day. For those of you who missed last Saturday’s succesful sale here on the farm you have another chance to come out for great savings of up to 50% [...]

A few lucky customers this weekend who ask for fresh cut flowers are going to leave with a beautiful lily or two. Growing north of my windmill plot not far from the strawberries I have a small number of lilies that I’ll be cutting for bouquets. This photo was taken yesterday, Wednesday, early in the [...]

You like melons? Well this summer I’ll have your melons! I’ve got a whole plot of watermelon that are coming on strong. They’re just itsy bitsy tiny little watermelons right now but another month from now, if the weather and pests cooperate, I’ll be picking some summer sweet all-natural melons for sale out here at the farm stand. Available [...]

If it feels like Summer it must be time for squash. When I planted the squash I wasn’t having great hopes for an abundant harvest as I was coming off a near total crop failure for cabbage, dismal results for broccoli, and mediocre amounts of cauliflower in comparison to what was planted. Aphids are not [...]

Last weekend saw record sales of cut flowers, short of them pulling up roots and walking off the farm - flowers could not have passed through my gate any faster than they did. This Sunday being Mothers Day you can bet my flower bouquets will be a popular item – keep the following in mind; I [...]