Lotus & Minnie: A Close Shave
Hello! It’s Lotus and Minnie here, we have something to tell you, but we don’t have much time before the farmers get back. Listen closely. We’re really worried about the Curbstone Valley farmers. We love our humans, and they’ve been so very kind...
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The New Native Plant Garden
Now that I’m almost caught up in the vegetable gardens for spring, I thought I’d take a moment to update on the progress of the new native garden plan. Part of the delay in updating on the garden is that this project has now turned into revamping three separate...
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Lotus & Minnie: The Goats are Growing Up
I can’t believe it’s been over a month since I last posted about the goats! Where did April go? We’ve been so busy, time just seems to be slipping by. When we last updated about the goat’s progress, we left Minnie standing underneath the stanchion. ...
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Grafting Heirloom Tomatoes: From Seed to Splicing
With unpredictable summer weather the last couple of years, finally culminating in a dismal tomato harvest last year, after many plants failed to thrive, we decided to try grafting some of our favorite heirloom varieties onto more disease resistant rootstocks this...
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Inside the Hives After the Swarm
Last week two of the hives in our apiary swarmed. The Lavender colony swarmed on Sunday afternoon, followed 24 hours later by the Salvia colony. Both hives had been split this spring prior to the swarms, Lavender was split as recently as two weeks ago, but after inspecting...
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April Garden Update: Native Garden
Walking through the garden, it’s clear that April is when Spring really arrives here. I can’t allow California Native Plant Week to slip by without a brief look at the native plants in our gardens this week. There are of course the usual suspects, like the...
Read More"Welcome to Curbstone Valley Farm"
a small organic farm and native garden located on California's Central Coast
About The Farm
Curbstone Valley Farm is a small private family farm located in the Santa Cruz Mountains, in California. We’re located in USDA Zone 9b (Sunset Western Garden Zone 15). The Farm is situated on seven-and-a-half secluded woodland acres.
About The Coop
The Curbstone Valley Coop consists of an assortment of breeds including, Buff Orpingtons, Delawares, Partridge Plymouth Rocks, Golden Laced Wyandottes, and Black Australorps, and our fabulous Dark Brahma rooster, Frodo!
About The Gardens
The gardens at the farm consist of an heirloom kitchen garden, an herb garden, an orchard, and a California native plant garden. All the gardens are grown organically, without the use of pesticides and herbicides, and planted to encourage honey bees, and native pollinators, to frequent the garden areas for pollination.