Tonopah Rob's Vegetable Farm

This Saturday April 3rd, 2010 I will be OPEN for business at the Farm Stand out here in Tonopah – I will be closed Easter Sunday on Estrella Parkway. Saturday will be a wonderful day for you and the family to come on out to the farm, we are expecting light clouds and a perfect [...]

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 [...]

This past Sunday a few friends joined me to go see the movie Food Inc. at the Camelview theater in Scottsdale. Although my blog is not a movie review site, it is such a rare occasion that a film comes out that deals with farming, and so in this instance I thought I might share [...]

The demands of late have allowed me little time to adequately draw my thoughts together to post a proper farm update; I hope today’s entry will go far to fill in some gaps as to what has been happening out here at Tonopah Rob’s Vegetable Farm: The longest night and shortest day are behind us and [...]

Please read carefully. Tonopah Rob’s Vegetable Farm Stand and Market will be closed the Saturday following Thanksgiving – November 29th only. The farm stand and market will open for regular business again on December 6th – I need a break over Thanksgiving, too. CSA members: You will be picking up your share this Saturday and next. That [...]

Well, here we go. The farm stand and a few surprises are about to take bloom. After a brief vacation, which of course was centered around farming, the end of Summer has been spent preparing the farm for the approaching season. Two months of cleaning, clearing, prepping, prodding, fertilizing, watering, planting, and tons of back [...]

Well it’s official, this past weekend was my last day of selling at the farm stand for a few weeks. Most of my crops have finally crumbled under the heat and humidity. Instead of closing down completely for the rest of Summer I have decided to open once or maybe twice a month until my [...]

As visitors to my farm stand this past Saturday already know, the new, improved farm stand is now up and operational. This is a huge stress reliever for me as the tents were such high maintenance. Their tops were tearing in the monsoon winds which threatened to send them airborne to Payson. The heat of [...]

This past weekend green beans were a hot seller. The dragon tongue beans, which taste just like regular green beans, only better, were almost as popular. As I try to offer varieties of vegetables not found in the large grocery stores, I have a hope that customers will be a little more adventurous when it comes [...]

Over near the cherry tomatoes are some dill plants that have gone to seed, these are those seeds. Sometimes the greatest beauty can be found in the smallest of things.

A big Thank You! to InBuckeye Daily News and Melissa Thomas for the feature story they published about my farm here in Tonopah, Arizona. They even put me on the home page – wow! For those of you with a sharp eye, see that temperature reading on the top of the webpage? It reads 90 degrees [...]

It is now 100 degrees in the shade, or 38 Celsius for those of you in the rest of the world. This past weekend’s farm stand was hot, too. I put out over 1000 pounds of fresh all-natural fruit and vegetables and nearly three-quarters of it was sold in the first two hours the farm [...]

I had not mentioned yet that beans might be available this Saturday, well I wasn’t sure if I was going to have any. Today we went out to the bean plot and looked under the leaves and lo and behold! there was a ton of beans under there. Burgundy Queen, Yellow and Green Italian Flat Pod, Cranberry Red, and Dragon [...]

Another week is upon us and the veggies are still coming on strong, despite the ever increasing temperatures. With the onslaught of summer’s triple digit heat, standing under these blue tents out here can get quite warm, not just for us, but for the produce too. Starting this weekend my new farm stand hours are [...]

There is a new feature on my website, a few of you may have seen it already. Over the past few days it has been a work in progress, matter of fact, it still is. So, you might find a few bugs here and there, but don’t worry, I’m frantically applying massive amounts of pesticides trying [...]