Wild Roots Farm

Our wonderful partners PAL: Play Advocate Live Well, Spartanburg Regional, Ruth's Gleanings, American Heart Association and Wild Roots Farm are hosting a FREE virtual series of Cooking Up Confidence: Skills for the Everyday Kitchen. This cooking series is a Beginner course for anyone that lives, works, worships, cooks, eats, etc. in Spartanburg County. Live Healthy Spartanburg aims for our community partners to take action to promote healthier lifestyles that will reduce and prevent chronic health conditions.

To register, scan the QR code on the flyer or click on the Eventbrite Link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cooking-up-confidence-skills-for-the-everyday-kitchen-julyaugust-series-tickets-935771597037?aff=oddtdtcreator

"Early on in my farming career, a farmer mom insisted Jake and I start planning for how we'd keep me relevant once kids entered the picture. I didn't see how I could possibly become irrelevant. I WAS the farm. At least half of it anyway. And it would be fine. We'd send the kid(s) to daycare and I'd keep farming as usual. No problem. And while we now do technically have daycare for both kids...it's never consistent. They take vacations, or holidays (cough, 4th of July) and yes we have grandparents to step in, but not always. And our baby isn't into bottles, so my body is still needed at least every 2-3 hours. And kids take a long time to get ready for their days, so when our farm day starts at 7am, our toddler is fully engaged in building a train track but also needs to eat breakfast and get out the door and oops the baby just spit up all over outfit number two of the morning.....I'm the default parent. And Jake leads the crew. The natural division of work now is Jake in the field and me in the house. I can still farm from my desk, at nap times and in quiet moments, because someone still needs to write the checks and order the parts for the broken things...and it's my body that's tethered to parenthood. At least for now.

I'm trying *so hard* to enjoy it. To appreciate the privilege of childcare and grandparent support and the ability to leave the farm work to our crew and to be able to spend real, quality time with my babies. But damn if it isn't hard to watch it all happen without me. So here are some photos of my field walk today. Where I kept myself in the loop, answered questions in person, observed and documented, then strolled back home when the whimpers coming from the stroller turned too insistent to ignore. I think, so far, we've heeded that long ago warning. I'm not ever-present, but I'm not irrelevant. I still AM this farm. It's just shared a few more ways these days."

— Taylor of , growing in central Vermont. 👩🏼‍🌾🌱

Come see us tomorrow at Hendersonville Farmers Market!
We will be there from 8-1pm. This week we’ll have…
-kale
-collards
-fennel
-celery
-gold potatoes
-fingerling potatoes
-squash and zucchini
-basil
-the 1st tomatoes!!
And more!

The sun is shining! And the veggies are waiting for you 😋😉

It’s a lovely brisk morning up here in Hendersonville!! Come check out the this morning 8-1pm. We have lots of new summer veggies and herbs for your week ahead!!

CSA Week 4 - What could be better Memorial Day weekend than some homemade slaw and broccoli salad next to your grass-fed burgers?? 😉🚜🥦🐂

This week..
Broccoli
Savoy cabbage
Collards
Watermelon radish
Garlic scapes
Spring onions
Salad mix

Interested in becoming a member? Check out our website! We will open Fall registration soon.

It’s that broccoli picking time of year! Organically-grown broccoli can be hard to find, but boy is it worth it.

We’ll have these babies in our CSA this week and at Hendersonville market this weekend.

Week 2 of our CSA rolling out! If you are not part of our CSA, you can still get veggies this week! We have Farm Boxes available in the shop on our site. You can pick these up on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday this week. We won’t be at market this weekend, so if you want them come and get them!!

Come see us from 8-1pm. We’ve got the color you’re looking for on this gray day!