Sam's Homegrown at Moses Farmstead

05/29/2026

Finley picked the very first Sungold of the season...and devoured the first two cucumbers 🤦🏻‍♀️. We may have some to bring to the store this weekend, if not then for sure next week. I can't wait to start bringing in some fresh produce. This all begins in January and it takes so long to see fruit but when it's here it's so worth it. It just starts with a seed 🌱.

05/28/2026

Come see us today! I brought more tomato plants up so there's a whole rack full of peppers and tomatoes 💚

05/27/2026

Life has been so busy but it's good. It makes me really take in the quiet and slow moments and I've really enjoyed my daily garden walks. Finn spied the first of the cherry tomatoes while helping me do some weeding and weaving tomatoes.

We've had lots of ducklings hatch and some mama hens sitting on eggs. Yesterday we stumbled upon a mama duck with 10 babies 😵‍💫. Everything feels safe to have their babies here 🤣. A funny thing, it's time for the chickens and ducks to molt their winter feathers and it looked like a down comforter exploded. I watched all my little purple martins scurrying around the yard the last few mornings gathering them for their nest gourds and it's all cleaned up again.

Harvesting will be starting soon and these long days will begin earlier but I enjoy the quiet at dawn to work. I can take daily harvests to the store. What a dream 💚. The first cucumbers will be coming in before the end of the week. My mini-me cucumbers and gherkins are starting to load up. Pickling cucumbers come next. Tomatoes are starting to set first fruits too.

I know I've been quiet here y'all so come see us at the store. 💚

05/22/2026

So much local goodness y'all! It's been a great day! Come in and see us! 10-6

05/18/2026

Moving into the produce season I wanted to give some perspective. Farming is more than backyard gardening and a hobby. As wonderful as those things are for our own families and personal use, this is a way of life for some. People see a farmers market or a produce stand and there's a disconnect on how exactly that food got there. I just wanted to take some time to talk about what we do here and all the things that interpret costs for things that not only we grow but for other farmers too.
Our season here begins in January and not a dollar is made until April and that labor and material cost for this months in between cannot be free to be sustainable. There's a lot more than putting a seed or a plant in the ground and we have to steward our land, our business, employees, and families well in that cost. These are just a few things that are factored into the cost of local food without grants and government subsidies

• seeds
• greenhouse costs
• soil amendments
• irrigation materials and repairs
• water
• fertilizer
• equipment repairs
• fuel
• insurance
• harvesting
• washing produce
• refrigeration
• packaging
• labels
• bags
• ice
• coolers
• loading and unloading
• payroll or labor
• taxes
• store utility bills
• Square fees
• crop failures
• weather losses
• unsold produce
• and months of physical labor before a single dollar is ever made

Then after that we're competing with every chain grocery store that's passed on the way to us. We can never be the same price wise because we are not the same.

We grow with integrity and full transparency the way we want our food to be grown. No-till, no spray, and only amendments and fertilizers that the good Lord made. That's fighting off a lot of pests by hand or with fostering wildlife such as purple martins and other birds and predatory wasps, long hot summer days that start before the sun comes up, hauling, washing, cooling, packing, and finally bringing it to market. Rising food costs directly reflect rising material and fuel costs not greed. If our seeds cost more we have to adjust accordingly. If we have to pay triple shipping costs now on pots and irrigation materials we can't just take the hit for it. It's so terribly hard but we have to keep moving forward or we lose our crops. We also don't want to lose customers so I wanted to share what all goes into not just our farm but all of the other farmers and makers in our store.

Nobody gets rich farming for sure and it's something you only do if you love what you do and love people. Pray for us this year that we can do the work well and that our harvests will be abundant and that our communities value local healthy foods. We love y'all and just know we're all doing our best 💚.

05/15/2026

This morning I want to speak on the pure, unfailing goodness of God. On Wednesday The Mustard Seed Clover had our grand opening ribbon cutting celebration. It was a beautiful day and we gathered with so many friends, new and old, and had a great time. What I did not realize was that day was also the 2 year anniversary of when we announced that we may lose our right to farm and began the work to rezone. Our little town and many others showed up to meetings, wrote letters and emails and spoke on our behalf and then it was our turn to speak. We all did the good work together and did it without pitchforks and we successfully rezoned and moved on back to our quiet life. But then we started to grow more and knew we wanted to continue farming and what we were doing but now there were more than what we could provide for and more work than we could do ourselves so again we started to call our friends. Some make bread, some make chicken, beef, or pork, but we needed them, so we started to plan our store. Our community wanted farm fresh and local so we're doing just that.

God has a plan and a time for everything and we just have to have faith, even just the size of a mustard seed, because He is faithful. So thankful to have such a dedicated, loving community to stand and grow along with us.

💚Love y'all, mean it
💚Sam



thank you so much for taking these wonderful pictures of our ribbon cutting. These are memories that I'm so thankful to have.

05/12/2026

05/11/2026

🌿Reminder that we are closed Monday and Tuesday this week to fully stock the store and do some painting and finishing up before the ribbon cutting. We're adding so many new things coming this week!! We can't wait for y'all to see!

✂️🎀Join us Wednesday at 10 for our ribbon cutting celebration and then we'll be open for shopping afterwards and through Saturday 10am-6pm. Come meet your farmers, bakers and makers and see how many wonderful people we have providing for the community.

05/08/2026

We're marking down plants to make room for more! All singles plants are $1-$2 and 4 packs are $4, we still have lots of sweet potato slips. Come see us today The Mustard Seed Clover 10-6!