Food Grown At Merry Lea
We grow many traditional vegetables and herbs including:
Various Salad Greens
Basil
Beans (snap & dry)
Beets
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Chard
Cilantro
Collard Greens
Cucumber
Dill
Eggplant
Fennel
Daikon Radish
Garlic
Ground Cherry
Hyssop
Kale
Leeks
Lovage
Melons
Mint
Nasturtium
Okra
Onion
Parsley
Peppers
Popcorn
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Rutabaga
Summer Squash
Sweet Corn
Sweet Potatoes
Tomato
Tomatillo
Turnip
Winter Squash
Zucchini
Our perennial plantings also include a wide variety of species:
Apple
Pear
Cherry
Plum
Pawpaw
Peach
Persimmon
Northern apricot
Pecan
Chestnut
Serviceberry
Blackberry
Asparagus
Raspberry
Grape
Hardy Kiwi
We are often experimenting with small plantings of more unusual crops, including small grains like:
Sorghum (sweet)
Heirloom Spring Barley
Rice (Japanese Variety)
Spring Oats
Jute
Various Flowers
Many Species of Cover Crops
We have raised many animals, including:
Turkeys
Chickens: meat chickens, laying hens
Goats: milk goats, meat goats
Cattle
Quail
Honey bees
Pigs
Millions of Soil Microbes, Beneficial Insects, etc.
Sheep