Two Boots Farm

4226 Maple Grove Rd. Hampstead USA

(443) 507-8428

A family run farm and floral design studio in Hampstead, Maryland. We grow a wide variety of cut flowers and produce. We also have over 100 cultivated pawpaw fruit trees. We use ecologically sustainable practices so that future generations can continue to grow in healthy soil.

Autumn is Coming

September 17, 2020  /  Elisa Lane

Greetings,

In just a few short days we’ll welcome the Autumn equinox. We’ve already noticed changes around the farm as a result of this past week’s cool temperatures and the increasingly short days. Flowers are taking longer to bloom, fruits take longer to ripen. The farm will be bustling for a few more weeks, and then, with frost, things will slow down drastically. After frost comes, we’ll continue to harvest what we can, clean up the fields, and make lots of wreaths. We choose to take winters off of farming. We enjoy having a break to recover from a long, hectic season, and it’s a good opportunity to spend time with family and focus on our other passions and hobbies. We keep crops in the ground over winter, and begin seeding in the greenhouse in January, but work doesn’t really pick up again until March. When frost comes, it’s always bittersweet. We spend most of September (always our busiest month) yearning for the first hard frost. But when it arrives, it never feels like we’re ready to say goodbye to the tender blooms in the field. We fill our high tunnels with seedlings and anxiously await the arrival of Spring’s first flowers.

On Thursday, we re-skinned one of our high tunnels. Earlier in the summer, we removed the plastic from this tunnel. It’s important to do this every five years or so, as the plastic has a minimal lifespan. Removing the plastic also lets us expose …

On Thursday, we re-skinned one of our high tunnels. Earlier in the summer, we removed the plastic from this tunnel. It’s important to do this every five years or so, as the plastic has a minimal lifespan. Removing the plastic also lets us expose the soil to the elements and helps flush out any salt buildup in the soil, which is a common problem in high tunnel growing.

The view from inside our newly-covered tunnel! Right now it’s mostly planted with buckwheat and fast fall crops, but in a few weeks we’ll be filling it with tulips and other spring blooms!

The view from inside our newly-covered tunnel! Right now it’s mostly planted with buckwheat and fast fall crops, but in a few weeks we’ll be filling it with tulips and other spring blooms!

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Here’s where you can find us with an abundance of pawpaws in the coming weeks:

September 20th, 8:30 am -1:30 pm: Dupont Circle Farmers Market

September 27th, 8:30 am - 1:30 pm: Dupont Circle Farmers Market

We will continue to attend the market at Johnny’s each Sunday from 8:00-11:00 am.

We’ll just be bringing pawpaws to the Dupont Circle Market, but at Johnny’s we will also have chard, collard greens, eggplant, kale, lettuce mix, shishito peppers, sweet peppers, and bouquets.

Wishing you well,

Amelia and the rest of the Two Boots Farm crew

Zebra swallowtail caterpillar on a pawpaw seedling

Zebra swallowtail caterpillar on a pawpaw seedling

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