Tonopah Rob's Vegetable Farm

There’s still time to get your salad on folks. Come summer you’ll be missing all these wonderful winter veggies. Hope you all are enjoying our move to an early summer here in Arizona – can someone explain this whacky weather?  Hope to see you all this weekend, now the veggie list you’ve all been waiting [...]

What is going on with this weather? Freezing bitter cold like we haven’t seen down here in who knows how long, we know it’s winter. Then in four seconds it’s SUMMER! Oh wait, the weather God recognizes the thermostat was cranked up too high and backs off a bit, maybe a taste of spring should [...]

Hello Veggie Lovers. The Farm Stand here in Tonopah will be open Saturday from 8:00 a.m to 12:00 noon. The Goodyear Market at the corner of Van Buren and Estrella Pkwy in the Walgreens parking lot is open Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Wickenburg Market at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum open on [...]

Well here we are in the year 2011. Feels like just yesterday we were saying goodbye to the 20th century and now the first decade of the 21st century has been put to rest, it’s history. Some are saying this looks to be a promising year with forecasts suggesting about 2 million new jobs will [...]

All markets will be open this weekend PLUS a new location opening on Sunday at The Stock Shop at 6615 W. Thunderbird Road just east of 67th Avenue in Peoria. This new market will initially be open from 9:30 until noonish – closing hour depends on how busy we are. Vendors planning to attend this [...]

Someone turned up the heat here in Arizona during the middle of winter after having the worst freeze in all my years of farming. Meanwhile back east, lake effect snow is dumping a gazillion inches of brrrrr on folks. Is it just me or is the weather kind of strange? First things first, my Farm Stand [...]

Folks, as I wrote in my last posting we have had a severe freeze out on the farm that has required my full attention and has necessitated me closing this Saturday Farm Stand here in Tonopah and Sunday’s market in Wickenburg. I will be open this Sunday in Goodyear ONLY! All CSA members would like [...]

All my markets including the Farm Stand here in Tonopah and the Farmers Markets in Goodyear and Wickenburg will be closed this weekend in observance of the fact that most everyone will likely have too many leftovers stuffed into their refrigerators to want to go out and buy even more food. So instead, I offer you flowers [...]

Not quite the Merry Season yet but we are in the middle of Happy Season and so I find it is the time to wish everyone a Happy Turkey Day, a Happy Thanksgiving, and a Happy Everything! This is the time of year we emphasize our thankful blessing. As always, I’m thankful for my friends, [...]

Gee Golly, wow, yowza, and holy mackerel – opening weekend was AMAZING!  And now here we have yet another opening, that’s right GOODYEAR – it’s your turn. Sorry to those of you who missed the emails, the notice on my blog, the message on the right in the info box that Goodyear market was opening November [...]

Buzz Buzz, who’s there? Bee! Bee who? Bee at my Farm Stand Saturday November 6 or come on out to Wickenburg on Sunday November 7th because – IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! The veggies are ready, able, and willing to be bagged up, bought up, and eaten up. After the long pause of summer [...]

So here it is, one of those rare summer openings where I have a few things and I’m sure that after a month absence some of you are in need of a fresh food fix. Oh how I would like to tell you I have perfect corn, lots and lots of yummy corn. Well what [...]

We are going to be open Saturday ONLY – July 3rd. There will be no Sunday market in observation of the July 4th Independence Day celebration. Today’s photo is actually a teaser from a story being worked on for my website. You are looking at $20 of fresh all-natural veggies from my farm. The idea is [...]

The weather said unto the farmer, “And now for something completely different” and soeth it did hail and rain down upon my land for 40 minutes and 40 seconds. Pea size hail pellets layed a white blanket upon my yard and in the manger. Next, six gallon rain drops splashed from the sky like a [...]

Sure, the veggies taste great and the fruit is getting sweeter. The oregano has been wildly popular and I get rave reviews about the strawberries. And I’m excited by how quickly the corn is growing and that I have tomatoes, more tomatoes, and even more tomatoes. But the flowers, oh, how beautiful this kaleidoscope of color [...]