Farmer Browns

Website: www.farmerbrownsgardens.com

This grower uses synthetic fertilizers and/or pesticides.

This grower has a photo album.

We have lettuce all year. We grow some of the finest lettuce in the world, PERIOD! Our lettuce is produced in hydroponics. Hydroponics is the process of growing plants in water without soil. Overall, the main advantages over soil are more efficient nutrition regulation, efficient use of water and minerals, ease and low cost of the medium and higher-density planting, leading to increased yields. When you buy hydroponic lettuce from us with the roots intact you get a longer shelf life product, the plant is not dead and the taste is superb! The product is never sprayed, gassed or treated with chemicals of any kind. We use an integrated pest management system consisting of Lady Bugs, Praying Mantis, 3 types of residence Frogs and Lizards. We use filtered city water with our soluble minerals. Our minerals are mixed in-house and formulated specifically for the crop. We normally have in stock red loose leaf, green loose leaf, bibb, and romaine. Varieties will vary depending on the season.
We recently became State certified on our greenhouses for cleanliness, no infestation of bugs or fire ants and our plants are free of diseases.

Herbs are a very good seller and we have a very nice selection. We have both perennial and annual plants. Some of our perennial plants include: Rosemary, Oregano (Greek, Italian, and Golden), Sage (Berggarten, Garden, Purple, and Tricolor), Thyme (Lemon and Silver), and Winter Savory.

We have a beautiful collection of hardy ferns for our inventory this year. These ferns are from the Casa Flora collection and have been selected for our zone. We have a wide variety not normally seen around this area. All the ferns are in the trade gallon size ready to be added to your shade garden. Be sure to check out our website for a full listing of our ferns.
We are open to the public but are still working on setting our Greenhouse hours. If you would like to come by or have a tour, please call as we are happy to show you around the hydroponic operation. Of course, you can purchase plants and lettuce while you’re here. In 2009 we added two new greenhouses. One is for all the ferns, bedding plants, etc. The other one is dedicated for the growing of small gourmet cucumbers and now have cukes from 1 April till “around” mid-Dec each year.

OUR NEW GREENHOUSE will contain Hydroponic Mediterranean gourmet cucumbers (no seeds and burpless-weighs around 2 oz.) and small EARLY yellow grape tomatoes. All products are hydroponically grown without soil and NO herbicides or sprays ever used. Come on by anytime (call first)

OUR NEW COMMERICAL KITCHEN IS OPEN. We plan to offer “Salads-to-Go” shortly using our products and other organic fixings.