If you are looking for fresh/local rhubarb, we have it, and it is available right now. As with everything we grow, supplies are limited, so get yours while they last. In another few weeks they will all be gone for another season. The price for rhubarb this year is $2.00/lb. and we will wait till you arrive to pick them.

Rhubarb is easy to put up in the freezer. Simply cut up the stalks as if you were about to cook with them, and then store them in freezer bags. Squeeze out as much air as possible and throw them in the freezer. They should keep well that way for up to a year.

Come see us. We will be waiting for your call.

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Keep in mind we are out of berries, not out of business. There is always next year, and we do grow other things besides blueberries. Stay tuned and check back often.

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Once you have all of your desired ingredients thoroughly mixed up in the food processor, proceed to portion it all out into ice-cube trays and pop it in the freezer. Once your “cubes” are frozen you can dump them all out into a zip-lock freezer bag or glass jar and return them to the freezer. When ever you need a bit of basil just retrieve the required number of cubes and add them to whatever you are cooking.

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If you don’t happen to capture one of our signs, there are more ways to save. Follow us on Twitter @high_fence and receive updates on our current offerings and also capture that 10 percent discount . . . all season long. If you don’t do Twitter, you can subscribe to updates via email or RSS. The information for doing that is found in the sidebar. If you are signed up for updates in any of these three ways you will qualify for the 10 percent, plus an additional 10 percent if you capture a photo of our tailgate. What a deal! And don’t forget to tell a friend we have tomato, pepper and other vegetable starts.

What’s in the Greenhouse, Anyway?

This year we are offering a limited variety, concentrating on vegetable starts and a couple of herbs. Next year we hope to expand into the flower garden as well. Stay tuned.

Here is what we currently have to offer in the greenhouse:

• Tomato: Beefmaster (the big one), Better Boy (a regular size tomato), San Marzano (paste), Roma (paste), Juliet (a grape style), Sweet 100 (cherry).
• Pepper: Keystone (bell), California Wonder (bell), Pimento, Jalapeno, Anaheim, Red Chili, Cayenne, Serrano.
• Eggplant: Black Beauty.
• Lettuce: Red Sails, Grand Rapids, Romaine, Red Romaine.
• Spinach: Bloomsdale and Noble.
• Sweet Basil.
• Flat Parsley.

All of our plants are in 2 inch pots and sell for $1.00 each, except for lettuce which has a two-for-one sale going on right now.

We’ll be looking for you, and it never hurts to call ahead to make sure we are here.

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1. Come to get ideas: When you walk into one of those box stores to buy something you just get that something. You don’t get any ideas. When you make the drive out to High-Fence Farm you get ideas, ideas on the way out here and ideas when you get here. Hey, it’s a farm . . . with chickens, and fields, and fruit trees. And by the way . . .
2. It’s not all that far: We are only fifteen minutes west of the heart of Tulsa, and if you live west of Tulsa we are just around the corner from you. You travel farther than that to work five days a week.
3. It’s an education: We’re not just plowed fields and orchards. We have shade trees and flowering shrubs. Maybe you are thinking of adding to your home landscape. Come out and discover what grows best in this part of the world. Maybe you are part of a small homeschool group looking for an educational field trip. Please consider us for those kinds of botanical excursions, but please call in advance with those group “invasions.”
4. It’s for the birds: With all of the trees and shrubs around, we have a surprisingly diverse offering of birds to watch. We have set up Bluebird boxes around, and spring time is the best time to watch these blue beauties, and we have several nesting pairs. With the Arkansas River just a couple of miles to the south Bald Eagles often soar overhead. Even on a slow day you can watch the Mockingbirds chase each other through the landscape.
5. It’s quiet: Need I say more. Stroll around the trees. Bring a blanket and a picnic basket. Take a nap under a shady tree.
6. It’s beautiful: Bring your children and a camera and take some pictures. We have a landscape that offers blooming plants somewhere year round.  Take your picture under a rose arbor in full bloom here in just a few weeks?

Just a few words to put it all in perspective. We are a work in progress, so don’t get an unrealistic picture of Eden out here. There are a few weeds present, and the paint isn’t bright and shiny on every post and barn door. Heck, some of our barns don’t even have doors yet. And above all it’s best to call ahead. We’d love to have you out.

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1. It saves seeds: every seed we sow in the greenhouse makes its way into a pot, which is nurtured along until it is time to set them out in the garden.
2. There is no thinning of seedlings in the garden: nobody likes thinning tiny lettuce seedlings in the springtime. The “starts” get set to their final spacing at the onset.
3. You get about a month’s jump on the conventional method of starting lettuce in your garden.
4. Set established plants into pots or window boxes: Container gardening is great for those short on space . . . think window or raised planter boxes. Pintrest has lots of creative ideas for container gardening. Find a gardening style that best suits your needs & enjoy. When these early vegetables are finished you can replace them with summer flowers or even new vegetables for fall.

Many times we pick a batch of lettuce before we set the plants out in the garden. Then as the plants grow in the field, you can pinch what you need to top of a sandwich, or make a fresh salad. Sadly, all too soon it is a race to hot weather when the plants “bolt” to make seed, and become unfit to eat. There’s always a fall crop to anticipate and plan. Being raised on wilted lettuce growing up, we really enjoy this crop. We grow spinach the same way as lettuce, adding this tasty and nutritious green to salad and sandwich alike. Come out and check out our plants, and plan for future trips when our other crops are ready for you.

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One of our  mistakes this season has been in waiting too long before beginning to water. If we had started earlier, we might have been able to keep up. As it has turned out, we have been trying to water every plant on the farm, not just apples, in order to keep them all alive. Unfortunately we still suffered some plant loss. This fall and next spring will involve a considerable rebuild in several areas. This is to be expected from time to time.

For those of you who have come in the past, we are very sorry for the inconvenience and hope to see you next growing season.

Wayne & Suzan Hatcher
High-Fence Farm

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Produce also is running a bit late due to the dry conditions. Stay tuned. Apples seem to be the one crop that promises great things this year. It’s still a long way to August/September, so we’ll see how it goes and keep you updated. Thanks.

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Supplies are limited, so if you would like some give us a call. We’ll set some aside for you.

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Solus Invictus (For my purposes: Genesis 8:22)
I love the winter solstice because it signifies the turning of the tide, the slow but steady march back toward warmer weather. I generally don’t notice it at first, because of the preoccupation with Christmas, but soon after the new year I notice the daylight hours are steadily increasing daily, albeit painfully slowly. Spring is just around the corner!

Our first crop every year is asparagus, so we need to be about the business of clearing the old foliage from the bed right now, because those spears will begin to emerge before you know it.  We will announce later, as soon as the asparagus is ready for sale, probably sometime in March. Get your running shoes on, because supplies are limited, and we don’t wait for stragglers.

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