Riggin Farm

The Sunday farmers markets may be canceled, but Riggin Farm is still open today from 12pm-3pm, and this morning’s cucumber harvest is one of our best yet! We just brought in 20 Garden Sweet cucumbers, 23 Unagi cucumbers, and 4 pounds of pickling cucumbers fresh from the garden. Whether you’re looking for crisp salad cucumbers, a snack straight from the fridge, or enough picklers for a batch of homemade pickles, we’ve got you covered.

Don’t let the forecast fool you. Rainy Sundays are often the best time to shop local. You’ll avoid the crowds, get first pick of today’s harvest, and help support a small family farm when weather keeps many folks at home. Everything in this photo was harvested just hours before opening.

Along with cucumbers, we have a nice selection of garlic scapes, microgreens, and a little Swiss chard available today. Salad mix is becoming harder to come by as the summer heat takes its toll, so if you’re craving fresh greens, now is the time to stock up while supplies last.

We also have what feels like an endless supply of our colorful, nutrient-dense pastured eggs, plus a freezer full of pasture-raised pork and grass-fed Dexter beef. Whether you’re planning meals for the week or filling an empty freezer, there’s plenty to choose from.

And don’t forget the farm store favorites: local honey, elderberry syrup, fire cider, granola, and more. If you’re looking for a good excuse to get out of the house for a few minutes today, come see us. We’ll be here rain or shine, and we’d love to help you bring a little freshness home.

Lots of produce at the farmers market today: carrots, leeks, rainbow chard, purple kale, unagi cucumbers, garden sweet cucumbers, calypso pickling cucumbers, salad mix, garlic scapes, snow peas, arugula microgreens, broccoli microgreens, and purple radish microgreens at the Riggin Farm table. There are other produce vendors here as well.

Don’t forget to bring your dull knives, so Iron Rabbit Forge can sharpen them while you shop.

Grab a cup of hot or iced coffee and/or bring home a bag of whole or ground coffee from The Ellijay Trading Company.

Produce has been harvested and packed for the Jasper Farmers Market!

What you see here is kale, leeks, garlic, carrots, jalapeños, salad mix, snow peas, garlic scapes, cucumbers, broccoli microgreens, and purple radish microgreens that were packed for our produce CSA members. We will have many of these items plus additional varieties of cucumbers, arugula microgreens, eggs, meat, granola, and more at the farm store and the Jasper Farmers Market.

Ashley has been out of town this week at Frontline to Farm doing farmer training with fellow military veterans in North Carolina, so there will be no sourdough bread available.

We will be harvesting all of our garlic next week, so there will be thousands of heads of garlic available after they’ve cured for 2 to 4 weeks. Our sweet potatoes are also being planted next week and will be ready just in time for November when all of your favorite sweet potato recipes will be hitting your dinner table. We’re very optimistic that cherry tomatoes will be available next weekend and the slicers will start coming in the following weekend.

The cucumbers are coming in fast now! On the left are our thin-skinned Unagi cucumbers, perfect for snacking straight from the fridge, and on the right are our crisp, juicy Garden Sweet cucumbers, ideal for salads, sandwiches, and summer side dishes. We harvested another beautiful batch this morning, and they’re waiting for you in the farm store.

We’re also stocked up on fresh mushrooms, including both Blue Oyster and Golden Oyster mushrooms. Whether you’re sautéing them with eggs, adding them to stir fry, or making a gourmet dinner at home, these mushrooms are hard to beat. The produce and mushrooms were grown on our Certified Naturally Grown farm less than 200 feet from the register at the store.

Need more than produce? We’ve got plenty of pastured eggs, a freezer full of grass-fed beef and pastured pork, fresh microgreens, locally sourced honey, elderberry products, granola, and lots of other farm favorites.

The Riggin Farm Store is open today from 12pm-3pm

Come see what’s fresh, support a local family farm, and stock up before the weekend! We can’t wait to see you.