SHAGBARK FARM - ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO

 

FARM OPERATION
WHAT WE OFFER
Fresh Fruit
Dam Good Jam
Mushrooms
Hickory Products
Herbal Products
Wild Edibles
Honey

AT MARKET
OUR RECIPES
BOOKS & GADGETS

 

 

FRESH FRUIT
Farming is always an exercise in optimism. What doesn't work one year may be an absolute success the next. You can either fight Mother Nature or partner with her. As a farmer, you learn to adapt. Our farm has transitioned from growing only raspberries to growing a variety of unique small fruits.

Our goal is to be able to offer fresh berries and other small fruit all summer. To accomplish that we have chosen a mix of heirloom annuals and heirloom perennials. We choose the varieties we do because they are not the kinds of fruit the large growers produce for travel across the country to the local supermarket.

 


Berries, Rasp- & Black

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FRESH BERRIES


We offer sweet berries that are the best you are ever going to taste. If they aren't sweet, we don't bring them to market. Our berries sell out fast, but we try to bring as many as we can pick!

Offered in pint baskets:

STRAWBERRY - (Spring).
RED RASPBERRY - (Summer).
BLACKBERRY- (Summer).

GARDEN HUCKLEBERRY - (late Summer).
CAPE GOOSEBERRY - (late Summer).

GROUND CHERRY - (late Summer).

We also produce jam from many of these berry types. You can read about our "Dam Good Jam" here.


HEIRLOOM & FRENCH CHERENTAIS MELONS

You just can't get a good melon around here anymore, so in 2015 we started growing them. Adams County seems to have a great climate for melons. Who knew? The melon varieties we choose are ones you won't find at the local supermarket, or even a specialty market.

So far, the melons we have offered at market have been unusual and best of all sweet! We have offered varieties: Petit gris Rennes, French Cherentais, Halona, Jenny Lind, Alvaro, Prescott Fond Blanc, Sugar Bites, Tasty Bites. All have been well received.

Planted in early Spring our melons start to become available in mid to late Summer. Offered for sale only at market individually mid to late Summer.

You can read more about our melon farming operation here.

 

Melons for the Passionate Grower


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RHUBARB

Rhubarb is a pretty plant in the garden, it's deep green and the leaves are huge supported by beautiful red stalks. It's one of the first plants to emerge in Spring.

Not many people realize the nutritional value of rhubarb. High in antioxidants and vitamin C, it ought to be considered a super food. The rhubarb variety we grow is an old time rhubarb, deep red and tart Springtime taste. We bring trimmed stalks in rubber banded bunches in Spring.

We also produce rhubarb jam. You can read about our "Dam Good Jam" here.

You can read more about our berry & rhubarb farming operation here.

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PRESERVED FRUIT
In addition to our fresh products, we also preserve many of our fresh fruit for enjoyment in the winter.

JAM You can read about our "Dam Good Jam" here.
FRUIT SHRUBS In American Colonial days, concentrated fruit syrups were called shrubs (drinking vinegars). A shrub is a concentrated syrup made from fruit, berries or flowers, blended with sugar and vinegar. It is mixed with soda or tonic water today for a nice non-alcoholic drink, in the nineteenth century, brandy or rum was added. These are the fruit shrubs we make when fruit is available.


RHUBARB
Fresh rhubarb, vinegar, sugar.

STRAWBERRY
Fresh strawberries, vinegar, sugar.

MELON
Fresh melon, vinegar, sugar.

RASPBERRY
Fresh raspberry, vinegar, sugar.

BLACKBERRY
Fresh blackberry, vinegar, sugar.
GROUND CHERRY
Fresh groundcherries, vinegar, sugar.


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