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White St. Saturday Market, 26 White Street, Eureka Springs, AR (2026)

10/24/2025

We are done for the year. See you next year in May.

10/24/2025

The party's over. Ridgecrest was subjected to freezing temps and massive damage to crops on WED morning this week. So all foliage on sweet taters was destroyed, as well as all peas, and most limas and beans. It was even cold enough long enough to destroy pea and lima pod tissue. I would still plan to come to market with several items, including sweet taters, this SAT, except the forecast for SAT morning is abysmal: rain likely, cloudy, temps in mid 50's. Miserable day. It's also supposed to rain all day FRI, preventing harvesting, hampering truck loading. So we've canceled market, and also decided we will not have an extended market on SAT NOV 1st, with the crop losses and another lousy weather forecast in the long term progs (it may be below freezing on Halloween morning).
So last Saturday's market, lasting less than 90 minutes before the torrential rains and powerful thunderstorm swept in and sent us packing, was the final market for this season at White Street. Special thanx to those loyal customers who braved the ominous skies last SAT and still came out and made the day fairly worthwhile for us in sales in such a short time. And for those folks who have been fussing for fresh tomatoes and Lady Peas all dang summer: there was a peck of each 2 weeks ago mostly unsold, and a HALF bushel of tomatoes, mostly unsold, and HALF BUSHEL of Lady Peas last week, completely unsold.... sigh......
Anyway, met some kewl new folks this past season, and enjoyed so much visiting with regulars and seeing some satisfied purchases of my special kinds of veggies. THANX! so very much for supporting your local organic farming effort, and thanx for the friendly encouragement......
HUGZ from Ridgecrest, Larry

10/18/2025

We are here for a short time this morning. When the rain gets close, we will shut down for today.

Larry has plenty of tomatoes and peas today!

Renita has plenty of Arkansas Black apple butter.

Come see us before the rain!

10/17/2025

This week has been a good week for harvesting! However, the current forecast progs for this coming SAT morning look highly problematic, and indicate rain and thunderstorms will be likely. I cannot set up my products in rain, so will cancel a market appearance if rain or thunder is occurring at 7am SAT or heavy rain or weather looks imminent. So we'll wait and see..... there is some good produce I COULD be bringing along this week, but due to the forecast, I am cutting way back on harvesting, and spending more time harvesting my big supply of drying peas and beans which have greatly increased this week, and would be degraded by the upcoming rains.

As usual for the summer weeks, we'll be offering some dried peas/beans/limas which were harvested last year (over 50 pounds packaged in one pound bags, including several kinds not available in any store). And, we continue to offer Arkansas grown basmati rice produced by our friends over in Cross County. We have an increased selection of various publications related to cooking with our legumes, or growing in gardens, and books about botany and natural history in Arkansas for sale.

We will have an assortment of new potatoes and a display of regular size taters from cultivars we grow. This week at market I'll have over 100 pounds of taters on display for you to make your perfect choice. If you missed reading the detailed discussion about the different types of potatoes, and detailed descriptions of the six we grow, be sure to check out my farm report on this site on SAT (05 July 2025). Some varieties are beginning to sell down and we're now sold out of one cultivar and not a lot remains of a couple other cultivars.

Our onion crop is now sold out; last week was the last week for onions. Last week was also the last week for green snap beans for this season, and last week was also the last of the 'Purplehulled Calico' peas. I decided not to pick any limas this week; they take an exceedingly long time to harvest, and often do not sell well, so leaving them in the field for now. Maybe the weather will be better for the final Saturday market on the 25th.

We'll have along this week some sweet taters from our first diggings. Not a lot of quantity or size yet, but a few available if you've got the urge for a fall sweet tater recipe! We will be digging a lot more in coming weeks. No purples yet.

A GOOD WEEK FOR PEAS! There will be a modest amount of traditional 'Pinkeye Purplehulls,' and 'Blackeye' peas, the peak picking for these two crops, but I'm only bringing around a half bushel each. We will also have the peak picking this week of Lady Peas (likely around a half bushel). There may be small amounts of 'Whipporwill' peas, and possibly a few 'Calypso' beans or 'Horticultural Shelling Beans.'

And although recent weather has diminished the quantity due to skin splitting, we'll bring along what 'Sun Gold' cherry tomatoes we can salvage, and possibly a handful of cosmetically challenged regular tomatoes, a crop really degraded by the last month of weather.

Hoping to see you at the market if the weather gives us a break Saturday morning, ... regards, Larry

10/10/2025

This week has been much better than expected! We avoided any significant rainfall on Mon and Tue, to my relief, and it's not as cool as originally progged. So I've been able to make major progress in harvesting this week! Long term forecasts indicate the mild weather should continue for several more days, so hopefully we'll have a good harvest of veggies to bring along and good weather on next Sat (Oct 18) as well! This coming SAT (Oct 11th) looks ideal, sunny and mild.

As usual for the summer weeks, we'll be offering some dried peas/beans/limas which were harvested last year (over 50 pounds packaged in one pound bags, including several kinds not available in any store). And, we continue to offer Arkansas grown basmati rice produced by our friends over in Cross County. We have an increased selection of various publications related to cooking with our legumes, or growing in gardens, and books about botany and natural history in Arkansas for sale.

We will have an assortment of new potatoes and a display of regular size taters from cultivars we grow. This week at market I'll have over 100 pounds of taters on display for you to make your perfect choice. If you missed reading the detailed discussion about the different types of potatoes, and detailed descriptions of the six we grow, be sure to check out my farm report on this site on SAT (05 July 2025). Some varieties are beginning to sell down and we're now sold out of one cultivar and not a lot remains of a couple other cultivars.

Our onion crop has now been mostly sold out. This week I'll have only a handful of remaining red onions to bring along. This may be the last week for these to be offered.

We'll have along this week some sweet taters from our first dig. Not a lot of quantity or size yet, but a few if you've got the urge for a fall sweet tater recipe! We will be digging a lot more in coming weeks.

We hope to have a good picking of snap beans with us this week from our late fall crop, which has just begun bearing, likely around a peck to a half bushel. The fall crop began blossoming abundantly a couple weeks ago after the rains and cooler weather, and the quality of the beans will be excellent.

A GOOD WEEK FOR PEAS! This week there will be a fairly large picking of 'Purple hulled Calico' peas-- probably around a half bushel or more, the peak picking for this cultivar. There will be a modest amount of traditional purplehulls, and likely a half bushel of 'Blackeye' pea, also likely the peak picking for these two crops. We will have a very small first picking this week of Lady Peas (likely less than a peck). If the weather remains mild and dry, there could be a better picking of the Lady peas for next SAT (Oct 18th). The 'Lady Peas' and some others are succumbing to some root rot with all the recent excessive rains, so we'll see what happens. Some other of the earlier peas have begun to rebloom and set a few pods, including Crowder, Whipporwill, and Blushpod, so if there's time, will check these out and see if there's enough to pick a couple handfuls to bring along.

There are not any limas available for picking this week, but we'll likely be able to bring along modest quantities from a couple of cultivars next weekend.

We'll have some very interesting and desirable beans this week! There should be a fairly large offering (peak picking) this week of our unique 'Rainbow Bean,' a large and delicious bean which sports many colors and patterns, similar in taste and texture to the heirloom 'Jacob's Cattle' beans. Also this week I'll be bringing along a good peak picking of the distinctive 'Calypso' bean, sporting its unique black and white pattern resembling the Yin Yang symbol. Also along this week will be a modest picking of traditional Horticultural Shelling Beans, a personal fave of mine. These resemble a large white kidney bean, or the cherished Italian Cannellini beans.

And although recent weather has diminished the quantity due to skin splitting, we'll bring along what 'Sun Gold' cherry tomatoes we can salvage, and possibly a handful of cosmetically challenged regular tomatoes, a crop really degraded by the last 3 weeks of weather.

Hoping to see you at the market THIS upcoming beautiful Saturday, ... regards, Larry

10/04/2025

Good morning!

We are set up and ready to go on this beautiful morning! Check the pictures for what we have. And more!

Get some breakfast at Harold's Diner: Soda Fountain & FARMacy, then come over to get some veggies or apple butter.

Open until noon.

10/03/2025

This note is written late on Thursday evening. I cannot describe in words my current state of disgust, certainly not in civil discourse. Today was particularly disappointing, dismaying, exasperating. Today was supposed to be sunny and warm, I was supposed to be able to harvest for market and gather in some other material for me. But the forecast was bust, and from 4pm thru 5pm today I had sprinkles, rain, with periods of heavy rain, torrential rain. Couldn't have come at a worse moment. Many things are declining still from last week's monsoonal disaster, and now this will enhance further decline and degradation. And the long term forecast was really revamped today, now calling for rain nearly every day next week, a major cold snap, and a 75 percent chance of rain next Saturday (11th). As I said, a most discouraging and dismaying week.....

As usual for the summer weeks, we'll be offering some dried peas/beans/limas which were harvested last year (over 50 pounds packaged in one pound bags, including several kinds not available in any store). And, we continue to offer Arkansas grown basmati rice produced by our friends over in Cross County. We have an increased selection of various publications related to cooking with our legumes, or growing in gardens, and books about botany and natural history in Arkansas for sale.

We will have an assortment of new potatoes and a display of regular size taters from cultivars we grow. This week at market I'll have over 100 pounds of taters on display for you to make your perfect choice. If you missed reading the detailed discussion about the different types of potatoes, and detailed descriptions of the six we grow, be sure to check out my farm report on this site on SAT (05 July 2025). Some varieties are beginning to sell down and we're now sold out of one cultivar and not a lot remains of a couple other cultivars.

Our onion crop has been harvested and is cured; and we'll be bringing a modest quantity to market trimmed and finished; we've sold down most of this season's crop now. We have a red, a white, and a sweet yellow. This may be the last week for these to be offered.

We hope to have a good picking of snap beans with us this week from our late fall crop, which has just begun bearing, likely around a peck to a half bushel. The fall crop began blossoming abundantly last week after the rains and cooler weather, and the quality of the beans will be excellent.

For most of August we had huge amounts of southern field peas on hand, but currently the garden is kinda "in between" crops, as the early crops have mostly spent, and the late peas are just doing their darndest to come to maturity against formidable adverse weather factors. The last two weeks we had good quantities of midseason 'Polecat' peas, but they're mostly done with now, and this week there will be a fairly large picking of 'Purple hulled Calico' peas-- probably around a half bushel. There may be a very modest amount of traditional purplehulls, and possibly 'Blackeye' pea. Blooms are appearing on 'Lady Peas,' Blackeye Peas, and the late crop of traditional 'Pinkeye Purplehull' peas, and all these are now setting young pods every day. So hopefully there will be abundant peas in the near future. The 'Lady Peas' and some others may succumb to some root rot with all this rain, so we'll see what happens. To answer a vital question in some minds: NO, there will be no Lady Peas this week.

Also this week, I'll have on offer only one distinctive lima, my unique 'Larry's Royal Purple.' As many of you already know limas are my fave food, and these have a great diversity of flavor and texture; more pronounced than the bland green canned ones or white ones from dry. Give 'em a try! -- it might surprise you how good these are!

There should be a fairly large offering this week of our unique 'Rainbow Bean,' a large and delicious bean which sports many colors and patterns, similar in taste and texture to the heirloom 'Jacob's Cattle' beans. Also this week I'll be bringing along a modest first picking of the distinctive 'Calypso' bean.

And although today's rain will greatly diminish the quantity due to skin splitting, we'll bring along what 'Sun Gold' cherry tomatoes we can salvage, and possibly a handful of cosmetically challenged regular tomatoes, a crop really degraded by the last 2 weeks of weather.

We know this weekend is BIKES/BLUES/BBQ, and we know many Eureka residents close their businesses, pack up and leave town for the week. However, I cannot tell my garden to "pause production for a week." So I will be on White Street this Saturday, loaded with veggies. If you're still in town, come on out to visit.... we might have to pause conversation for passing roaring cycles occasionally...... but the veggies are good, and likely will NOT be purchased by the bikers. Last year, I only had two customers on BBB weekend, so hoping this year will be better......

Looking ahead to next week, I would have been relatively optimistic a couple days ago, but after today's deluge and the revamped forecast for next week, the garden production for next week is highly problematic, not to mention whether there will be time to harvest or weather suitable on SAT for market. Hope for the best, as farmers always do..... ignoring the bikers, and hoping to see you at the market THIS upcoming beautiful Saturday, ... regards, Larry

09/27/2025

Good morning!

We are set up and ready to sell!

Grab breakfast at Harold's Diner: Soda Fountain & FARMacy and then come see what we have.

Open until noon.

09/26/2025

Well, those of you who have gotten to know my farming work are aware that Larry does NOT want much rain in the fall harvest season (SEPT/OCT/NOV), as this is when various pea, bean, and lima pods are maturing and drying on the plants and awaiting harvest, and is also the season for harvesting sweet taters. So in the last seven days (WED Sept 17 thru WED Sept 24) it rained EVERY day, and was mostly cloudy several days, and the total amount of precipitation here at Ridgecrest for those 7 days totaled EIGHT and a half inches! Just astounding...... and a major problem for the garden crops. I'm worried about sweet taters cracking or rotting, and the damage to my various legume crops is and will be massive. The main problem was bean crops near maturity, beginning to dry, and these are pretty much damaged beyond salvage. Many thousands of pods will get rotten spots or rotten tips in coming days from the excessive moisture. There was damaging wind gusts with thunderstorms on last THU, last SAT, and TUE. This laid most of my corn crop flat on the ground, tilted over tomato cages, and thrashed the bean, lima, and pea plants, slamming most of them flat down on the ground. This makes potential pod damage far more likely, and also makes picking a real hassle..... The sustained period of excessive wetness devastated the late Coco Rubico bean crop, essentially destroying the late summer crop, and eliminating the chance to harvest from 10 to 15 pounds of dry beans that would have been sold next season. As I said, a most discouraging and dismaying week.....
As usual for the summer weeks, we'll be offering some dried peas/beans/limas which were harvested last year (over 50 pounds packaged in one pound bags, including several kinds not available in any store). And, we continue to offer Arkansas grown basmati rice produced by our friends over in Cross County. We have an increased selection of various publications related to cooking with our legumes, or growing in gardens, and books about botany and natural history in Arkansas for sale.

We will have an assortment of new potatoes and a display of regular size taters from cultivars we grow. This week at market I'll have over 100 pounds of taters on display for you to make your perfect choice. If you missed reading the detailed discussion about the different types of potatoes, and detailed descriptions of the six we grow, be sure to check out my farm report on this site on SAT (05 July 2025). Some varieties are beginning to sell down and we're now sold out of one cultivar and not a lot remains of a couple other cultivars.

Our onion crop has been harvested and is cured; and we'll be bringing a modest quantity to market trimmed and finished; we've sold down most of this season's crop now. We have a red, a white, and a sweet yellow.

We hope to have a good picking of snap beans with us this week from our early fall crop, which has just begun bearing, likely around a peck to a half bushel. The fall crop has begun blossoming abundantly this week after the rains and cooler weather, and the quality of the beans will be excellent.

For most of August we had huge amounts of southern field peas on hand, but currently the garden is kinda "in between" crops, as the early crops have mostly spent, and the midseason peas are not quite ready for picking. The last two weeks we had good quantities of 'Polecat' peas, but they're mostly done with now, and this week there will be a fairly large picking of 'Purple hulled Calico' peas-- first picking this season, probably around a half bushel, and hope to have even more next week. There may be a very modest amount of traditional purplehulls, and 'Blushpod' pea. Blooms are appearing on 'Lady Peas,' Blackeye Peas, and the late crop of traditional 'Pinkeye Purplehull' peas, and all these are now setting young pods every day. So hopefully there will be abundant peas in the near future. The 'Lady Peas' and some others may succumb to some root rot with all this rain, so we'll see what happens.

Also this week, I'll have on offer a couple of distinctive limas. 'Jacksons Wonder' speckled lima and 'Dixie Butterpea,' about a peck of each. So sad we had to cancel market last week, as I had over 2 bushels of 4 kinds of limas ready to display. As many of you already know limas are my fave food, and these have a great diversity of flavor and texture; more pronounced than the bland green canned ones or white ones from dry. Give 'em a try! -- it might surprise you how good these are!

There should be a fairly large offering this week of our unique 'Rainbow Bean,' a large and delicious bean which sports many colors and patterns, similar in taste and texture to the heirloom 'Jacob's Cattle' beans. If time permits, there might be small amounts of other things, but not likely this week.

Also this week we'll have a small amount of yellow crookneck squash along, a peck or so, and this is the final offering for this season, so now's the time to indulge this rich tasting and nutritious veggie... great combined with our onions and sauteed in butter! And although the rain greatly diminished the quantity due to skin splitting, we'll bring along what 'Sun Gold' cherry tomatoes we can salvage.

Looking ahead to next week, if weather is cooperative, we expect to bring a large picking of 'Calico' peas, more 'Rainbow' beans, and likely a modest first picking of 'Calypso' beans. There should be more good quality green beans, and likley a good first picking from the late traditional 'Pinkeye Purplehull' crop.

So, fingers crossed about the weather (Larry wants mostly WARM and DRY for the next month!), and hoping to see you at the market this Saturday... regards, Larry

09/20/2025

Due to the rain, we will NOT have market today.

See you next week!

09/19/2025

Well, those of you who have gotten to know my farming work are aware that Larry does NOT want much rain in the fall harvest season (SEPT/OCT/NOV), as this is when various pea, bean, and lima pods are maturing on the plants and awaiting harvest, and is also the season for harvesting sweet taters. The forecast for the next seven days looks abysmal for my garden, with a high chance of rain every day. There will be abundant losses if the forecast is close to accurate. Larry especially does not want precip on THU from 8am to 8pm, FRI 8am to 8pm, and SAT from 8am thru noon. So today was exasperating: Today I lost nearly half the available harvesting time due to persistent drizzle (damaging to plants, impossible to harvest in, but WORTHLESS -- not enough moisture to help any plant's roots). I spent much of the last 3 days watering so today and tomorrow I could harvest... so NOW it rains...... sigh. As I write this (on late THU evening) the forecasts from various sources offer a bit of hope that this SAT morning may be free of precip here, but it is not a certainty. So hopefully we will NOT have rain/thunder for market this SAT morning in Eureka. I will have less produce to offer this week since I could not harvest all day today, and may also lose harvest time tomorrow.......
As usual for the summer weeks, we'll be offering some dried peas/beans/limas which were harvested last year (over 50 pounds packaged in one pound bags, including several kinds not available in any store). And, we continue to offer Arkansas grown basmati rice produced by our friends over in Cross County. We have an increased selection of various publications related to cooking with our legumes, or growing in gardens, and books about botany and natural history in Arkansas for sale.

We will have an assortment of new potatoes and a display of regular size taters from cultivars we grow. This week at market I'll have over 100 pounds of taters on display for you to make your perfect choice. If you missed reading the detailed discussion about the different types of potatoes, and detailed descriptions of the six we grow, be sure to check out my farm report on this site on SAT (05 July 2025). Some varieties are beginning to sell down and we're now sold out of one cultivar and not a lot remains of a couple other cultivars.

Our onion crop has been harvested and is cured; and we'll be bringing a modest quantity to market trimmed and finished; we've sold down most of this season's crop now. We have a red, a white, and a sweet yellow.

We hope to have a good picking of snap beans with us this week from our late summer crop, which has just begun bearing, likely around a peck to a half bushel. The late summer crop has begun blossoming abundantly this week after the rains and cooler weather, and the quality of the beans will be excellent.

SEVERAL NEW ITEMS THIS WEEK IN PEAS/BEANS/LIMAS!

This week we'll have a significant picking from a couple scarce heirloom beans: traditional 'Horticultural Beans' (around a peck), and 'Coco Rubico' (around a peck), and 'Coco Noir' bean. These are fresh in the pod for green-shelling. There might be a small quantity of 'Rattlesnake' if there is time to pick.

For most of August we had huge amounts of southern field peas on hand, but currently the garden is kinda "in between" crops, as the early crops have mostly spent, and the midseason peas are not quite ready for picking. This week there will be a fairly large picking of 'Polecat' peas-- first picking this season was last week, around a half bushel, and hope to have similar this week. There may be a very modest amount of traditional purplehulls, and 'Blushpod' pea. Blooms are appearing on 'Calico' peas, but this has been slowed by the recent anomalously cold and cloudy days, but will be the next in line, followed by 'Lady' peas, which should begin blossoming very soon, followed by late Pinkeye Purple Hulls and Blackeyes, which are now showing bloombuds.

Also this week, I'll have on offer some distinctive limas. First offering this season of 'Confederate Lima' (about a peck). Really good eating! Also hoping to have around a peck of each of two others, 'Larry's Faerie Magic Pink' and 'Larry's Royal Purple.' Also possible will be 'Dixie Butterpeas,' and 'Jackson's Wonder' speckled lima, but it depends on the weather FRI. There might be a modest quantity of 'Fordhook' if there is enough time to pick. As many of you already know limas are my fave food, and these have a great diversity of flavor and texture; more pronounced than the bland green canned ones or white ones from dry. Give 'em a try! -- it might surprise you how good these are.

Also this week we'll have a major haul of yellow crookneck squash along, a half bushel or more, so now's the time to indulge this rich tasting and nutritious veggie... great combined with our onions and sauteed in butter!

Looking ahead to next week, if weather is cooperative, we expect to bring a first picking of 'Calico' peas, first picking of 'Rainbow' beans, and likely more 'Coco Noir' beans. The 'Calico' peas have set an extremely heavy crop of young pods the last ten days, but these can rot if it rains too much.....

There might be small amounts of other items if the weather allows harvesting. PEAK HARVEST SEASON AT RIDGECREST IS WELL UNDERWAY!! So, fingers crossed about the weather, and hoping to see you at the market this Saturday... regards, Larry

09/13/2025

Happy Saturday morning to you all!

We are open and ready for customers!

Check out the pictures to see what we have to offer today. There are even more than the pictures show.

Go to Harold's Diner: Soda Fountain & FARMacy for some breakfast, then come over for some shopping.

Open until noon.

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