Website Launch and Happy Spring!

Hello friends,

Thanks for visiting our new online store. Please explore our site and learn about our products and farm.

My intentions with this blog are to give you a seasonal view of how things are going on the farm. I want to start with a post on each of the equinoxes and solstices and go from there. Since I am a little late with the Spring Equinox I guess now is as good a time as any to begin.

This year's garlic crop is growing well. The earliest planted garlic is already 10"+ tall and looking happy. We plan to harvest just under 30,000 bulbs this year.

I have planted out some favas and an Italian wild pea called "roveja" in what will be the 2026 garlic crop field. The roveja is up a little, with the favas having germinated by no top growth yet. Hope to have some for you to try if they do well. 

We have had some warm days but rather cool and rainy lately. I had let the fire go out in the woodstove in our cellar, but have started it up again until warmer weather returns. 

Many plants are waking up ready for spring. Some of our plums planted last year are beginning to flower along with big flower buds on the peaches. Excited to try some if the weather cooperates. 

Our pollinator friends are making some appearances with the bumblebees out working the purple dead nettle and saw some solitary bees going into holes under the forebay of the barn. 

We are working at spring cleaning and getting our packing room ready. Cleaning out about about 100 years of stuff :) 

Recently we had some wind damage on the old country store on the place. Thanks to Curtis Martin at CM Construction and Remodel in Honey Grove, PA for getting our new roof on in a timely manner.

The longer days sure feel great. All are excited for what this new season will bring. Hope you are well and enjoying spring where you are. Plan to be back with another post on the Summer Solstice. We will have already snapped the scapes and will be very close to beginning the main garlic harvest then. If you might be interested in trying some of our super awesome Juniata Garlic please check out the product pages to order. 

All the best this Spring,

Patrick Ciarrocchi

Ridgeview Farm

Peru Mills, Pennsylvania