We don’t officially open for the season until May 1st, you can now browse our website and let me know if there are specific plants that you would like and I can put you on a list and set them aside for when we open, a lot of the plants are just not quite ready to leave yet for the annuals, vegetable, herb plants. The pansies will be ready shortly to go to there new home we are just waiting for it to stay constantly warm for them to stay outside. We will be adding more items to the website as we transplant them up from the seed chamber and from our plug delivery that is coming next week. Website: whittakershomesteadandgreenhouses.weebly.com/# (https://whittakershomesteadandgreenhouses.weebly.com/#/) Covid-19 updates for 2021: We still will be limiting the number of people allowed in the greenhouse at a time just because they are small spaces with all of the benches and plants and want to offer the safest shopping experience possible. We will still offer the availability to book shopping appointments for you to come to the farm, and we also will still be offering the buy online and pickup right at the farm stand contactless or farmers market option. We will have a sanitize station available for you to use. Appointment Booking Link: http://square.site/.../whittaker-s-homestead-alstead-nh Things happening this year at the farm: You will find us at the farmers market in Keene this year on Tuesdays 3-6 and Saturdays 9-1, we can also bring plants for you to pick up at the market. We will have plants for you to purchase this season at Hidden Treasures Flea Market LLC in Swanzey, NH. You also will find us some Sunday's in Gilsum from 1-4 at Restoring Eden for a Farmers Market. We are also working on a really cool business building improvement project that is coming up that we partnered with The Local Crowd Monadnock on. This project will help us achive the goal of purchasing the materials to build the new farm stand that we need. The existing building is 35+ years old, and needs new electrical, insulation, repairs to make it so critters cant eat the walls, it needs a new celling, and roof as it is starting to leak. also we need more storage to properly put away produce packaging supplies, retail supplies that way it is not cluttered to make it easier to pack up items for sale at the farm stand, farmers markets, wholesale customers. We also can solve the problem of having product go to waste because we are without a large working fridge as it stopped working and we could not afford to fix it, that we are running off of mini fridges and a household fridge. By raising the funds to build the new farm stand we can also purchase working fridges, freezers to keep produce at the proper temps to be able to offer a wide variety of products longer. We also will be able to provide produce to customers looking to shop locally for organic produce closer to home by being able to keep more on hand. We also can improve our eco footprint by having a well insulated building, better working appliances. We also can also work toward being opened year round with a well insulated and heated building to feed the area. We are going to make the farm stand so the farm stand has a upstairs for storage and the downstairs will be for shopping, and produce storage and order pickups. The eco part of our building will be thick insulation in the walls, energy efficent windows, doors, air tight envelope, (Energy recovery ventilator). We will have a mold resistant, mildew resistant building that keeps the cold weather elements out and keeps the critters out. Key Items funded:
We are excited to offer a lot of new varieties of plants this year, brought back a lot of fan favorite plants. We also have added in a new variety of composted manure, composted manure with peat moss this year we are now offering Catlin’s Farmstead for compost and composted manure with peat. You may find some of your favorite items cost a bit more this year the cost of seeds, plugs, soil, pots, heating oil has gone up to make your favorite plant and to be able to continue to be open to offer you great products we had to make some pricing adjustments. Thank you so much for sticking with us. We look forward to continuing to support each other during these challenging times. Lizz & Zack
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