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By: Julia Holup, Assistant Farm Manager At Stout Oak Farm, we market our vegetables to our community of customers in a variety of ways. We operate a Farm StoreĀ from mid-May through late October, attend the Exeter Farmers’ MarketĀ during the growing season, and take part in several Winter Farmers’ Markets in the colder months. We also …

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find us at local markets this winter!

Here’s Julia at the Seacoast Eat Local Winter Farmers’ Market in Rollinsford.  There is so much amazing local food at this market!  See our Winter Calendar below for upcoming market dates. Stout Oak Farm Winter Calendar Find us at these markets! We’ll be selling eggs, greens, and winter storage vegetables. Three River Farmers’ Alliance Farm-to-Chef …

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november harvest

We’re still finding plenty of food to harvest in our fields, thanks to this fall’s nice moderate temperatures. Our new hoophouse is brimming with greens, timed to be harvested for late November and December farmers’ markets and restaurant orders. Bags and boxes of roots and other storage crops pile up in our cooler. As the …

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winter greens update

This week and next, we’re harvesting spinach and baby lettuce from our unheated hoophouse for Seacoast Eat Local‘s Winter Farmers’ Markets on December 6th and December 13th! Inside our larger hoophouse, we keep the temperature slightly above freezing through mid-December.  What’s growing in there right now?  Micro greens, radish shoots, and pea shoots for local …

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winter market season begins

It’s late November, and we’re still harvesting!  Yesterday up on the hill (the ground still slightly frozen even in the middle of the day) we harvested beets, kale, tat soi, and the last baby salad greens and arugula of the season. We also discovered some gorgeous parsley and a surprise stash of Brussels sprouts in …

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Assembling the Ingredients: Thanksgiving Shares 2014!

This Friday and Saturday, 50 families will visit the farm to pick up their “late season” Thanksgiving Shares.  Each family gets 2 big boxes — mostly local organic vegetables we’ve grown here at Stout Oak Farm.  The contents of these boxes represent many months of growing, and many weeks of harvesting, washing, sorting, weighing, bunching, …

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Farm Store Re-Opening Next Weekend

Good news! Our Farm Store will be open next Friday and Saturday!  We’re still harvesting lots of cabbage, carrots, beets, radishes, turnips, leeks, and greens, so we’ve decided to open the Farm Store for a couple of days.  Our Thanksgiving Share Pick-Up will be happening at the same time.    FARM STORE HOURS Friday November …

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where to find us this fall and winter

We’re growing more food for the late fall and early winter months than we ever have before!  Here’s the rundown on our late season schedule: Our Farm Store is open through Friday October 31st.  We are still harvesting loads of vegetables — carrots, beets, turnips, potatoes, kale, salad greens, cabbage, radishes, and more. Come by …

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it’s winter market season!

It may be cold outside, but our greenhouse is buttoned up for winter, and it’s just warm enough inside to grow some beautiful microgreens for the upcoming Seacoast Eat Local Winter Farmers’ Markets. We’ll be attending the next two markets, Saturday December 7th in Rollinsford at Wentworth Greenhouses, and December 14th at Exeter High Schoool, …

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time to stock up!

Today is the last Exeter Farmers’ Market of the season. We hope to see you there! Our Farm Store is open today and tomorrow, 12:00 – 6:00pm After that, we’re closing for the season and getting ready for Seacoast Eat Local’s Winter Farmers’ Markets. Read our recent newsletter for more info! October News from Stout …

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