380 Farm Stand

🎃 It may look like fall at 380 Farm Stand… but we still have plenty of summer produce 🍉🍑

The pumpkins, corn stalks, hay bales and fall colors are here, but we’re still loaded with fresh summer produce too.

🍉 Melons
• Traditional red seedless watermelon
• Pecos cantaloupe
• Navigator cantaloupe

🍑 Fresh fruit
• Idaho peaches
• Apples
• Grapes
• Plums
• Figs
• Plus more fresh fruit throughout the stand

🍅 Fresh vegetables
• Tomatoes
• Okra
• Squash
• Zucchini
• Cucumbers
• Green beans
• Sweet corn
• Potatoes
• Onions
• Plus plenty more seasonal vegetables

🥩 Stock the fridge
• Locally raised steaks
• Ground beef
• Bacon
• Chicken salad
• Farm fresh eggs
• Amish roll butter

🍞 From the bakery
• Fresh baked sourdough bread
• Cinnamon rolls
• Cookies
• Muffins
• Seasonal fall baked goods

🍯 Pantry favorites
• Local honey
• Jams & jellies
• Pickles
• And plenty more around the store

Check out the pictures below!

📍 6399 e Hwy 380 Decatur, Tx 76234
⏰ open everyday 8-6

🎃 Fall has arrived at our stand! 🍂

Our pumpkins are HERE and they look fantastic! We have 30+ varieties available. Everything from classic orange pumpkins to specialty colors, shapes, sizes, gourds, and more. Be sure to look through the pictures below to see just some of what we have available!

A short list of the fall products:

🎃 30+ varieties of pumpkins
🌾 Corn stalks
🟨 Hay bales
📸 Plenty of great fall picture spots
🌸 U-Pick zinnia patch

And the bakery is switching over to fall too! 🍂

🍞 Pumpkin bread
🧁 Pumpkin muffins
🍎 Cinnamon oatmeal crumble
🥖 Plus plenty of sourdough and other fall-themed baked goods

🌼 Mums and a full selection of fall flowers will be arriving by this weekend!

⏰ Open Everyday 8am - 6pm

📍 6399 E Hwy 380 Decatur, Tx 76234

Happy Labor Day! 🇺🇸

We’re OPEN and stocked up for your Labor Day plans!

New baked goods have hit the stand:
🥖 Fresh dinner rolls
🎃 Pumpkin muffins
🍎 Cinnamon oatmeal crumble

Plus, we have plenty of fresh fruit and melons ready to go!

And if you’re planning to grill today, don’t forget the good stuff:
🥩 Steaks
🍔 Ground beef
🥗 Chicken salad

Come see us and grab everything you need for Labor Day! 🇺🇸

🇺🇸 YES — We are open Labor Day! 🇺🇸

🍉 Traditional Red Seedless Watermelon
🍉 Pecos Red Seedless Watermelon
🍑 South Carolina Peaches
🍇 Cotton Candy Grapes
🍎 Apples
🍑 Plums
🫐 Fresh Figs and Blueberries

Straight from the farm:
🍅 Ponder & East Texas Tomatoes
🌽 Corn
🫛 Green Beans
🥔 Potatoes
🌱 Okra
🧅 Onions

🥩 AND THE FREEZER IS FULL
Locally raised steaks, ground beef, and plenty of options for the Labor Day grill.

🍞 Fresh sourdough bread
🥗 Chicken salad

* plenty more stocked inside the stand!

Come spend part of your Labor Day with us. 🇺🇸🍉🌽🥩

⏰ 8-4pm

Thank you so much for asking me and for taking the time to highlight our family and 380 Farm Stand. I really appreciate it. Agriculture has been such a big part of our family for generations, and I’m proud of what my dad built and what we’re continuing to grow today.

I’d be happy to answer these questions. I think there’s a lot to be said about the difference between simply growing food and learning how to grow food successfully in North Texas. Between the heat, drought, freezes, clay soil, and unpredictable weather, you learn pretty quickly that farming is constantly about adapting.

1. How important do you think freshness and proximity really are? What
changes when produce can be harvested today and eaten by a local
family tomorrow instead of traveling through a long supply chain?
Freshness and proximity can be very important in certain fruits and
vegetables when it comes to nutrient development and taste.
Cantaloupe, tomatoes, peaches and strawberries are a few examples
of crops that must be vine ripened to have the best flavor. Once vine
ripened and harvested, these particular crops do not travel well. Yet
when harvested prematurely, it becomes quite noticeable in flavor.
Okra is another great example. You will rarely find fresh okra in a
grocery store for this reason. Allowing fruits and vegetables to fully
ripen on the vine also ensures the most nutrients being delivered to
the produce. So when possible, shorter time between harvest to
consumer is definitely best.
2. Where do you see controlled growing environments fitting alongside
traditional agriculture…not replacing farms, but helping overcome
seasonality, weather and other limitations?
Controlled environments certainly are a good companion to
traditional farming and some are currently already being used by
many today. Utilizing specialty hybrid seeds within a controlled
environment helps overcome extreme elements. Shade cloth protects
crops against extreme heat and regular plastic covering helps extend
the growing season by protecting against early frost and freezes.
3. After generations of your family growing food, what have you learned
about the difference between asking “Can this crop grow here?” and
asking, “How can we create the conditions that allow it to grow here?”
While growing in greenhouses extends the growing season for certain
crops that already grow here, it is not economically feasible to try to
create the conditions to grow certain crops, at least at the scale that
we farm. We would not, for example, try to mimic the conditions to
grow bananas or avocados. Our greenhouses add about 4 months
additional growing time for us and also allows us to start our own
plants from seeds.
4. Do you think people really understand how much seasonality,
transportation, storage and weather determine what shows up in the
grocery store…or has our modern food system make us expect every food
to simply be available all the time?
Most people do not realize how the factors you listed determine what
is available in the grocery store, or more so, the quality of those
products. Like your earlier question, seasonality and transportation
can drastically alter the taste of produce. For example, while a large
chain grocery store is able to provide cantaloupe year round, there
are going to be seasons when they are noticeably bland in taste.
My opinion would be that yes, majority of consumers have come to
expect every food to be available all the time. With that being said,
customers that are a bit older in age are generally more inclined to
know when local produce is available. These customers also tend to
hold a higher expectation for the quality of those products, rightfully so

LOCAL VOICES | Kade Copp | 380 Farm Stand

There's a big difference between talking about local food production and actually trying to grow food in North Texas.

The Copp family knows that difference firsthand.

For our next Local Voices conversation, I wanted to hear from Kade Copp and the family behind 380 Farm Stand.

Their story started with Kade's father, Keith, a third-generation grower who began with a single acre of vegetables. Over the years, that acre grew into greenhouses, hydroponics, season-extension techniques and a much larger local food operation—all while learning how to work around North Texas clay, heat, freezes, drought and unpredictable weather.

Today, the next generation is carrying that work forward at 380 Farm Stand between Denton and Decatur, providing locally grown fruits, vegetables, plants and other farm products directly to the community.

That experience makes Kade someone I especially want to hear from as we talk about producing more food closer to the people eating it.

Kade, from growing food yourselves and selling directly to consumers, how important do you think freshness and proximity really are? What changes when produce can be harvested today and eaten by a local family tomorrow instead of traveling through a long supply chain?

Your family has used both conventional growing methods and greenhouses/hydroponics. Where do you see controlled growing environments fitting alongside traditional agriculture... not replacing farms, but helping overcome seasonality, weather and other limitations?

After generations of your family growing food, what have you learned about the difference between asking, "Can this crop grow here?" and asking, "How can we create the conditions that allow it to grow here?"

Do you think people really understand how much seasonality, transportation, storage and weather determine what shows up in the grocery store... or has our modern food system made us expect every food to simply be available all the time?

The future of agriculture doesn't require us to abandon what farmers have learned for generations. It requires us to build on it.

Grow local. Adapt intelligently. Feed communities.

🇺🇸 Labor Day Weekend ! 🍉

If you’re grilling out this weekend, we tried making it a one stop shop:

🍉 Watermelon
• Traditional Red Seedless
• Pecos Red Seedless

🍑 Fresh Fruit
• South Carolina Peaches
• Figs — these are OUTSTANDING right now!
• Plums
• Apples
• Cotton Candy Grapes

🍅 Tomatoes
• Ponder Tomatoes
• East Texas Tomatoes

🔥 For the Labor Day Grill Outs
• Corn
• Green Beans
• Potatoes
• Okra
• Onions
• Locally raised steaks & ground beef

🥩 Our meat freezer will be FULLY STOCKED this weekend! Check out the pictures below to see the full meat menu and everything available.

🥖 And as always, we’ll be fully stocked with fresh sourdough bread and chicken salad!

📍 6399 e Hwy 380 Decatur, Tx 76234

Open Everyday. Including Labor Day. 8-6

🍂 Fall is coming to our stand! 🎃🌼

Next week things are going to start looking a little different around here.

We’re getting ready to roll out a LARGE selection of fall color, pumpkins, and everything you need to get your porch and yard ready for the season.

🌼 Fall Flowers & Plants
• Mums
• Crotons
• Fall combo pots
• Zinnias
• Celosia
• Dragon’s Breath
• Petunias
• Ornamental peppers
• Ornamental cabbage
• Succulents
And many more plants and flowers!

🎃 AND THE FALL FAVORITES…
• Pumpkins
• Hay bales
• Corn stalks

This is just the beginning. Next week is when 380 Farm Stand officially starts turning into FALL. 🍁

We’ll be posting pictures as everything starts arriving, so keep an eye on the page. If you love decorating for fall, we should have what you need

6399 E Hwy 380
Decatur, TX 76234