Andrew’s Family Farm Stand and Our Long Island Garden

Andrew’s Family Farm Stand in Wading River, NY has been a staple of our gardening needs for over ten years.  When I need flowering plants, veggies or herbs this is a solid go-to. If I am having guests, I like to pick up a bouquet of their local flowers. Sometimes I just stop in to pick up one or two things and walk around and watch the shoppers.  In my opinion, a farm stand makes people happy and I love to see smiling people.

Mother’s Day Weekend is usually the time we pick up our plants for the vegetable and herb gardens.  This year the garden will have 6 heirloom tomato plants, 4 cherry tomatoes, 2 early girl tomatoes, 4 eggplants, 4 jalapenos, 4 Portuguese hot peppers, 4 broccoli, 4 cucumbers and 2 zucchinis. The herb garden has lemon verbena, basil, lemon thyme, marjoram, rosemary, dill, parsley, sage and cilantro.

I feel strongly about eating and drinking locally as much as possible to support my neighbors. I am fortunate to live in a fantastic area of America. The area of Long Island where I am privileged to reside has an award-winning wine country, rural farms including horse farms, beaches and fantastic small businesses and restaurants.

Have you ever driven on Sound Avenue? You should consider it! There are farms, vineyards, shops, restaurants and fantastic people to hang out with. My advice is to take exit 69 from the LIE to avoid the traffic on the William Floyd Parkway.

Our garden starts out small and then bursts into a huge producer of fresh produce.  There is something about the soil where we live that cultivates plants with ease.  We live on an old orchard and with a little bit of organic compost the plants, flowers and veggies thrive.

These pictures show the main garden, some of the containers and the herb garden (with a visiting deer). Later on in the summer we have the bounty of our plants and eat like Kings!

And……I wait for it every year. Eggplant parm with fresh sauce. I am a lucky girl.