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Cotton Hills Farm
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Our Journal:
November 1, 2014: Things are really slowing down on the farm. We have all of our cotton harvested and will begin planting our winter wheat and rye very soon. In the next couple of days, we will start back our basket operation. During the winter months, we make half bushel wooden peach baskets. The Market in Lowrys is now CLOSED for the season. We will reopen in the spring with OUR OWN strawberries! The strawberries are planted and looking great. The Chester Market will remain OPEN. Stop by for canned goods, grits and meal, produce, and MORE!
We would like to thank all everyone who came out to visit us this year. Thank you for a great season! We greatly appreciate your business.
We would like to thank all everyone who came out to visit us this year. Thank you for a great season! We greatly appreciate your business.
September 20, 2014: It is really starting to look like fall on the farm! Many of our fields are turning white with cotton. It will not be long before we begin harvesting this year's cotton crop. For us, the first day of picking cotton is always very exciting!
The Market and The Chester Market are full of all your fall favorites. We have several varieties of fresh NC mountain apples from Golden Delicious to Gala to Fuji. You can't go wrong! This week we have been busy picking OUR OWN pumpkins! We have pumpkins of all shapes, sizes, and color. Come by and pick yours today! We also have our own gourds, cornstalks, straw bales, and mums.
Mark your calendars for our annual Farm Fair on October 11th. Check out the Farm Fair page for all the information!
The Market and The Chester Market are full of all your fall favorites. We have several varieties of fresh NC mountain apples from Golden Delicious to Gala to Fuji. You can't go wrong! This week we have been busy picking OUR OWN pumpkins! We have pumpkins of all shapes, sizes, and color. Come by and pick yours today! We also have our own gourds, cornstalks, straw bales, and mums.
Mark your calendars for our annual Farm Fair on October 11th. Check out the Farm Fair page for all the information!
July 1, 2014: Summer has arrived at Cotton Hills Farm! All of our crops are coming in. Each morning we are busy picking our produce. We hope you will come by and see us at The Market or The Chester Market. We have everything you need for your July 4th celebrations. We started picking OUR OWN sweet corn, watermelons, and cantaloupes this week. Also, try Tony's ice cream served at The Market in Lowrys. It is the best way to beat the heat!
We would like to thank everyone who came out to our farm for the Catawba Region Ag + Art Tour! We really enjoyed being a site on the tour this year, and we hope you had a fun time as well!
We would like to thank everyone who came out to our farm for the Catawba Region Ag + Art Tour! We really enjoyed being a site on the tour this year, and we hope you had a fun time as well!
June 4, 2014: It is starting to feel more and more like summertime on the farm. We are currently picking OUR OWN squash, cucumbers, cabbage, broccoli, and zucchini! We also have OUR OWN freshly dug red and white creamer potatoes. And, we are still picking those sweet and southern strawberries! Our tomatoes are also really close to being ripe. We are just waiting on them to turn red! We hope you will make a trip to see us at either The Market or The Chester Market sometime soon!
We are excited to be taking part in the Catawba Region Ag + Art tour this year. Come visit our farm on Saturday, June 21st for wagon rides and see local artists at work. Admission is free! You can check out the Catawba Region Ag + Art tour website for more information. http://www.catawbaagandarttour.com/
We are excited to be taking part in the Catawba Region Ag + Art tour this year. Come visit our farm on Saturday, June 21st for wagon rides and see local artists at work. Admission is free! You can check out the Catawba Region Ag + Art tour website for more information. http://www.catawbaagandarttour.com/
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April 26, 2014: The Market and The Chester Market are now OPEN for the season. We have plenty of OUR OWN sweet strawberries for sale! We pick prices are $12/gallon, $7/half gallon, and $4/ quart. You can pick-your-own strawberries for $2.05/lb! Pick containers are $1.00 or bring your own. We also have other fresh produce from the South Carolina Farmer's Market available at both locations as well as our canned goods, honey, and Whistle Stop batter mixes.
We have planted our tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, cantaloupes, watermelons, okra, sweet corn and much more! So it won't be too much longer for that delicious summertime produce. This past week, we have been busy cutting our rye crop. After it is cut, it will be raked and bailed for straw. We hope you will head out to the farm or The Chester Market for a taste of spring! |
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January 29, 2014
Snow fall at Cotton Hills Farm
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January 20, 2014: Winter on the farm is a time of catching up and looking
ahead to a new crop. We spend much of
our time maintaining and improving our equipment. It is really hard for us to do this during
the summer months when everything is in use.
We have several projects underway right now that, when finished, will be
a huge help for us in the coming season. All of our planning goes on in the
winter. Currently, we are working on
what to plant and where to plant it. We like to rotate our crops to avoid
planting the same crop in the same place in back-to-back seasons. Our basket
operation is in full swing as well. We
manufacture half bushel wooden peach baskets during the winter months. We can't wait to fill our own baskets with our own peaches!
We are eagerly counting down the days until strawberry season! The berries are looking great. During the extremely cold temperatures recently, we covered our strawberries to help protect them from the cold. The strawberries were in their most dormant stage and should be unharmed. It’s the late spring freezes that worry us the most. In February, we will start pruning our peach trees. |
Pete Wilson with this year's strawberry crop.
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