We sell at the Murrieta Farmers Market. This market is open on Sundays , 9 AM to 1 PM. The market location is:
Village Walk Plaza, Murrieta, CA.
This coming Sunday (August 31) we will bring winter squash, water spinach, bitter melon, eggs, garlic, and jujube fruit.
We are now starting planti fall crops.
GreenNibbles farm is located up against the buttes west of Hemet and north of the little town of Winchester. We have been a member of CCOF, California Certified Organic Farmers for nine years.
Recently we left CCOF because it is now too expensive. Up until this year the federal government covered much of the cost of organic certification. It looks `like they won't do help this year.
Even though we are no longer with CCOF, we are continuing. our the same organic practices we have always used. We use organic seed, fertilize with manure, and only use OMRI materials to protect our plants.
We grow what we sell.
And, just one person plans for, grows, harvests, transports, and sells. That one person is me. This approach makes it possible for vegetables to reach the table, 3 to 15 hours after they are harvested. The vegetables we don't sell go to our goats, sheep, chickens, geese...and us.
Some of our greater challenges are:
(1) farming with a tiny water budget,
(2) skirtIng around the earwigs and aphids in the spring,
(3) and producing a steady vegetable supply
every single week as the seasons change.
I'm a retired educator. I taught high school chemistry and physics for forty years. I have a national certification in physics teaching and during my last teaching years I earned my EdD in Educational Leadership.
I taught at a high school that served a very small agricultural community in the California Central Valley. I was fortunate to spend my time in a diverse community of students typically found in California farming communities. After school I coached the Science Olympiad team.
There are many different contests at Science Olympiad regional meets so our students focused their time becoming specialists in just one or two areas of science. Most years our students did better than the prior year. All the other competing schools were very large and typically located in affluent communities. One school was even a special, science-focused school. Some years our school took first place in our Regional competition... doing well enough to go on to the Northern California State meet. During my last year our team took third place at the Northern California state competition.