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Red Wagon Farm grows vegetable year-round using organic techniques. We also keep chickens and ducks for eggs.


We sell our produce and eggs at the Alpine Farmers Market at the Hotel Ritchey Courtyard on Historic Murphy Street. We all sell homemade pickles, relishes and mustards.

The farmers market is open every Saturday of the year, from 9 am until noon.

Thursday, June 14, 2018

June 14, 2018

Good morning,  as it stands NOAA is saying by this weekend we should  be enjoying the remnants of a hurricane that has hit the west coast of Mexico.  with the best chances being Saturday night and Sunday. Remnants give us some of our best rainstorms. They are calm storms that hang with us but leave behind  lots of moisture. Lets hope that this is the case. I have been fortunate to have received moisture but there are so many places in West Texas that haven't. This could possibly end our fire season. We can only hope.
The garden is doing well. I think I may have thwarted the spider mite and thrips infestation. They quite frequently migrate into the garden from the surrounding range land. What with the heat of late their populations can very easily explode. I hope to have dodged this bullet. I haven not experienced the Harlequin bug infestation  that a lot of other folks have although I noticed an increase of cucumber beetles along with a few squash bugs. Spraying for thrips and spider mites should bring these guys into check also. Even with the winter chill we received there seems to be plenty of bugs to go around.

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