Sourcing superior seed, information and growing practices to ensure high quality plants.
Why Go?
Maple Park Farms will support you with beautiful healthy bedding plants, naturally grown vegetables, salad greens and herbs. They grow the majority of their plants from seed. Their growing method allows the plants you buy the best possible chance of continued growth. In the vegetable and cut flower gardens, they take great care and use sustainable, all-natural growing methods. To control weeds. They hand weed instead of using chemicals. Also when planning their gardens they use crop rotation and companion planting to control pests. In their vegetable gardens they grow more than 25 varieties of vegetables! The staple vegetables are:
-Beans, Beets, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Kale, Kohlrabi, Leeks, Lettuce, Onions, Peas, Potatoes, Radishes, Squash, Swiss Chard and Zucchini. In the greenhouse they grow different varieties of pepper, tomatoes and cucumbers. As well as various herbs. Their cut flowers are both field and greenhouse grown. You will find unique flowers as well as your traditional favorites.What’s Unique?
In an effort to reduce waste, they incorporate the following practices:
– Any excess cardboard is sent to a local plug producer to be reused. If the cardboard is not in a condition to be reused, it is sent to be recycled.
– They also reuse old tags to label the plug trays.
– They reuse the plug trays for many years before being recycled.
– They reuse some containers whenever possible
– They collect rainwater off of the greenhouse roofs to be used to water the gardens