Planting & Harvest Schedule

Fall/Winter 2025 Planting/Harvesting List:

Updated 9/24/2025 – Michelle
Produce we have for sale at the moment:

Okra – limited

Here is what we have planted and on the way:

Kale: Red russian, blue dwarf, siberian
Lettuce: oak leaf, waldmans, red romaine, red curly
Cucumbers: slicing and pickling
Tomatoes: yellow pear, florintino, slicing, cherry
Butternut squash
Acorn squash
Black eyed peas/purple hull peas
Green beans
Zucchini
Yellow squash **plants have silver leaf – may be limited*
Radishes: French breakfast, pink beauty, watermelon, cherry belle.
Turnips: golden globe & white egg.
Southern Mustard greens
Green Sprouting broccoli
Banana squash & buttercup squash **Striped cucumber beetle takeover – may be limited*

Planting before October 2025:

Purple sprouting broccoli
Arugula
Green onions
Carrots
Beets
Sprouting broccoli
Broccoli
Cabbages: red acre, copenhagen, savoy.
Cauliflower
Cilantro
Dill
Spinach

Normal Scheduled Plantings:

Oct 1st – green onions – start harvesting 3 weeks after planting
Jan-Feb – sugar snap peas – start harvesting a month-ish after planting
Feb-Mar – potatoes – start harvesting 3 months after planting
Aug 1-15th – Fall planting – ready starting in Oct
Mar 1st-15th – Spring planting – ready starting in May

Updated 9/24/2025 – Michelle
** Listed is what is planted – we grow organically, and some produce may succumb to pests, disease, weeds, or weather-related crop failures. We try our best to bring healthy food to you!

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Deadlines for current customers ordering for the week are:
Bandera, Hondo, Castroville, Farm, San Antonio Home Delivery – Wednesday morning
Boerne – Friday Morning

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Michelle Steubing
6312 FM 471 N
San Antonio, TX 78253
(512) 585-9547 – call or text
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Produce Box Locations

The following are pickup locations and times:

Monday-Tuesday: none at this time

Wednesday:

Castroville, TX
Outside Fitwell – 842 FM 471
5pm to 7pm

AND

San Antonio, TX
The Betsy Blue Farm Produce Farm – 6312 FM 471N
9am-2:30pm in-person, 2:30-dark self pickup

Thursday:

Bandera, TX
Bandera Farmer’s Market – Western Trail Heritage Park, Bandera, TX 78003
9am-12pm

Hondo, TX
Inside Silver Creek Meat and Gear, 309 US HW 90
2:30pm to 7pm

San Antonio, TX
West side 1604 corridor home delivery
3:30-7pm – may change depending on the week

Saturday:

Boerne, TX
The Farmer’s Market at the Cibolo – 33 Herff Rd.
9am to 1pm

San Antonio, TX
IH 10/Northside home delivery
3-5pm – may change depending on the week

Sunday:

none

Produce Box Information

Buy a box when you want. Each box is Farmer’s pick from our farm of produce that is organically grown and in-season. Occasionally, we will have organically grown local fruits and vegetables to help supplement. Each box comes with a weekly newsletter and recipe featuring box products.

We also have add on items like eggs, sometimes bread, jam, non-organic local fruits (I.e. Poteet strawberries, Poteet blackberries or Fredericksburg peaches when in season) or other additions like goat milk soaps.

You can order weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. On a schedule – or randomly! No extra costs or fees like a traditional CSA box. Try one out today!

Half box
$22 – 6 items

Will feed an individual for 1 week

Example:
1 Head romaine
1 Head Butter lettuce
3-4 small squash
1 bunch beets
1 bunch carrots
3-4 tomatoes

Half Box pictured below:

Full Box
$33 – 8-10 items

Will feed 3-4 people or a couple every other week

Example:
1 Lettuce head – Romaine
1 lettuce head – Bibb
1 lettuce head – Red Butter
1/2 lb. Catskill Brussels sprouts
1 bundle Red Russian kale
1 bundle Dinosaur kale
1/2 lb. Bloomsdale spinach
1/2 lb. Beefsteak tomatoes
1 small head of Red Express cabbage
1 large head of Round Dutch cabbage

Full box pictured below:

produce box contents

Crockpot BBQ Beans and Pulled Pork Sandwiches

This is a crockpot meal – excellent for those cold wintery days. In Texas, our coldest down here is maybe in the 20s. Last night it got down to 50 – and has been in the 70s during the day – in November! Overall, the Fall has been wet/warm. Predicting a wet Winter.

Anyways – my biological clock must have pre-prepped for this cold snap because I was in a mood for some good hearty mock “baked beans” and pulled pork sandwiches. I always just “wing” meals – so there isn’t a vey specific recipe – but it came out excellent!

Recipe:

Ingredients:

1.5 lbs Pork meat (boneless)
1 – 18oz Sweet Baby Ray’s Hickory and Brown Sugar BBQ Sauce
1.5 cups beef broth
2 cups water
Red beans (uncooked)
Green onion (we used 4 immature red onions from the garden- greens and all)

Directions:

In a crockpot, put a pork piece in the bottom. Add 3/4 to the whole container of sauce on top of the meat (depending on taste).
Slice onions and add in (use as many as you want for taste). Add beef broth and water. Add as many red beans as you like – but make sure to leave enough liquid space for their expansion once cooked.
Set to high and cook until beans are tender and pork comes apart easily. Check on water levels and add water if necessary; 6-8 hours cook time. Once to the tenderness of your liking, take out pork and pull apart. Make into sandwiches with mayo and pour sauce from the pot onto the sandwich. Eat beans as the side dish. OR – eat together for a mock “baked beans and pork”!

November 20, 2017

Sweet and Sour Pork Stir Fry

Made this homemade adapted recipe from mostly Farmer’s Market ingredients (and some of our garden ingredients) served over a bed of white rice! Very adaptable to whatever veggie/meat/broth combo that is in season at your local farmer’s market.
Recipe:

Main dish:

Slices of pork

1 cup kale, chopped

1 cup zucchini, chopped

1 cup bell pepper, sliced

3/4 cup carrot, chopped

1/4 cup onion, chopped

Sauce:

2 tbsp soy sauce

2 tbsp ketchup

1 tbsp red wine vinegar

1 tbsp brown sugar

2/3 cup beef broth

1 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
1. Heat wok on medium high with a little bit of oil and sauté pork until browned (doesn’t have to be fully cooked). Take out and set aside.

2. Heat wok again on medium high heat with oil and sauté veggies 10 minutes. Meanwhile, mix together sauce in a different bowl.

3. Add back pork and mix. Make a well in the middle of the pork/veg mixture and pour in the sauce. Do not mix.

4. Cook untouched until sauce starts to thicken, then mix all together. Cook till veggies are tender. Serve over bed of white rice.

Makes two servings.

Current Harvest Schedule

Updated: 2/1/2025 – Michelle
Produce we have for sale at the moment:

Baby beet greens
White and purple green onions
Red lettuce
Green lettuce
Medium daikon radishes
Turnips – white, yellow, and purple
Arugula
Dill
Baby Swiss chard

Here is what we have planted and on-the-way:

Purple Plum Radish – Mar 1
Easter Egg Radish – Mar 1
Watermelon Radish – Mar 15
Cherry Belle radish – Mar 1
Pink Beauty – Mar 1
Red Romaine Loose Leaf – Mar 1
Carrots – Mar 1-May 15
Red Mustard – Mar 1
Sugar Snap Peas – Mar 1

Planting Soon/planting dates:

March 5 – April 1:

Green beans
Planting baby tomato plants (ready in June)
Pickling Cucumber
Slicing cucumber
Planting baby Pepper plants
Cantaloupe
Okra
Potatoes (red and white)- planting Mar 1
Yellow straight neck squash
Yellow crook neck squash
Zucchini
8 ball zucchini
Spaghetti squash
Acorn squash
Butternut
Buttercup squash
Multicolored pattipan squash

Important Yearly Planting Dates:

Onions – Oct. 1
Potatoes – Feb. 1-Mar. 1
Peas – Jan/Feb/Mar
Spring vegetables – March 5-April 15 (lettuces, green beans, squashes, tomatoes, hot weather crops)
Fall vegetables – Aug 1-15, Sept 1, Oct 1 (greens, roots, broccoli, cabbage, and other cool weather crops, fall tomatoes, cucumbers, and green beans)

Lemon Blueberry Raspberry Bread

This bread is so moist and is a favorite at the farmer’s market. We always sell out of this bread. All of the flavors make you want to have more than one slice!

It is super easy to make and fast – that’s why they call them “quick breads”.

Ingredients:

2 eggs (farm fresh eggs make the bread yellower than store bought eggs)
1 cup sugar
1.5 tsp vanilla
3 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp grated lemon zest
5 tbsp melted butter
1.5 cups flour (plus extra to coat berries)
1.5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
2 tbsp vinegar
1/2 cup blueberries*
1/2 cup raspberries*

* you can add a little more to make it moist, but not too much to where the loaf won’t form.

How to make:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine eggs, sugar, vanilla, lemon juice, lemon zest, and melted butter in a mixer with a paddle attachment until combined. (You can also make it without one) Turn off mixer.
In another bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In a liquid measuring cup, measure out milk and then put in the vinegar – let sit until it has a lumpy consistency.
Before Vinegar

After Vinegar
Turn back on mixer and alternate pouring in flour mixture and milk mixture until combined. Turn off mixer.
In the old flour bowl, put berries together and add flour to coat. Take bowl off mixer and mix in berries by hand.
Pour into a greased loaf pan. Bake 45-50 minutes or until it doesn’t jiggle when moved and toothpick comes out clean. The top will also become a light brown color.
Let cool on baking rack for 15 minutes in the pan and then take out of pan and cool for another 15 minutes or until it is cool enough to cut without it falling apart. Makes one yummy loaf.

Lemon French Toast

Lemon French toast is a breakfast favorite around here – it is light and fluffy and so flavorful that your mouth just can’t get enough! Here is my recipe from our table to yours!

Ingredients:

Any slices of bread: use any bread you please! Try out new things – pictured is our homemade buckwheat wheat white bread that didn’t rise – we usually use a cinnamon raisin for this that we buy from Beyond Bread Bakery from the local farmer’s market in Bandera, TX.
2 eggs – fresh are best!
1/4 cup milk – fresh raw organic is best!
1 lemon – zested and juiced
Cinnamon sugar***
1 tbsp butter
Powdered sugar (can exclude)

Preparation:

Heat a skillet on medium heat and add 1 tbsp butter to the pan. Heat until butter is melted. While melting, mix eggs, milk, lemon zest, and lemon juice into a bowl.
Once butter is melted and starting to turn brown, dip a slice of bread into bowl mixture on both sides and place into pan. Cook to desired doneness. Flip to other side and top with cinnamon sugar.
Flip onto opposite side onto a plate and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Top with desired amount of butter. Continue to repeat process until done with the amount of pieces of bread of your choosing. If running out of egg mixture, make more. If having leftover egg mixture, add salt and pepper and make scrambled eggs!
Once all finished, plate and sprinkle powdered sugar through a sieve onto your French toast. dd on toppings of choice including berries or syrup. Best served with bacon or sausage and a cold glass of milk! Yum!

What is a loofah?

Whenever we take the plants or the foreign objects to the market, people always ask “What is it???”

Well it is a loofah plant that produces loofahs. “What is a loofah” you ask? Well you know those sponge looking things you use in the shower to scrub off dead skin? That’s a loofah! AND they grow on a plant!

The plant is a vining plant – loves the heat – and has properties like a gourd. There are beautiful yellow flowers and long gourd type things that come down that look like cucumbers.

They water like squash, but are pretty hardy to hot weather. They don’t require too much water.

Once they dry on the vine, they turn out to be a shell.

Then you peel off the shell through the membranes and underneith is the loofah.

Shake it to one end and the seeds are in the inside!

You then have seeds for next year and a scrubby loofah for the shower! You can do all sorts of arts/crafts with it including putting soap in the middle.

And that ladies and gentlemen is what a loofah is!