Specialty Produce
Soule Solstice Farm has been growing specialty heirloom tomatoes since 2012, as well as hand selecting each year special varieties of colorful and enticing vegetables. We love the Paul Robeson heirloom, Cherokee Purple, Green Zebra, Amish Paste and Striped Roman, and we always select an orange tomato, like Chef's Choice Orange, which has been richly flavorful and a great producer. We also tried Gold Medal, gold with dark pink streaks, which is very sweet and excellent. We obtain our seeds through Seed Savers Exhange, Johnny's Seeds, Vermont Bean Seed Company, Seeds of Change and other specialty organic seed suppliers. Another favorite crop is organic potatoes, sourced from Wood Prairie Farm in Maine, a leading organic farm and non-GMO advocate. Blue Adirondack potatoes, Red Cloud (pink inside), Butte (russet), Yukon Gold, Dark Red Norland, Caribe - just a few that we love to grow and eat. Another staple of our farm is rows of onions (red and yellow) and Scottish and English Leeks, a nice compliment to potatoes in soups. Each year we find a few new things, which is part of the fun of focused production organic growing: it is an abundance of diversity. And don't forget the 31 tree fruit orchard - apples, peaches and pears, with expansion on the way.
Current Spring/Summer Plants and Produce for Sale:
Heirloom Tomato Plants: We are offering eight varieties of tomato plants grown to order, started from seed, nurtured by hand and accelerated in the Passive Solar Heat Winter Greenhouse, ready for pick-up at the farm and planting in your home garden.
Patio Box Annual Garden Kit: We are offering up to 30 hand made wooden patio boxes, designed to hold all you need for a neat annual garden, complete with soil, a fertilizer sachet, an heirloom tomato plant, basil plant, cucumber plant, bush bean seeds and a bonus plant. Jennifer will artistically decorate your box for an additional charge. Take this home to your patio, deck or yard, transplant and plant your own small but essential garden.
SSF Specialty Meals: We grow colorful potatoes from organic seed purchased from Wood Prairie Farm in Maine, leeks, varieties of onions, and fixings for salsa. We are offering a limited number of 10 shares for SSF Specialty meals, which are the seasonal produce fixings for a few of our favorite recipes: Potato Salad, Salsa and Potato Leek Soup. You will receive an email notification to pick up your meal-fixings and recipe at the farm (or by other arrangement) when the time is right.
Other specialties and offerings: Each season brings new varieties of wonderful vegetables and surplus. Watch for special offerings here and on Facebook.