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Welcome to the Millennium Farms website. Here you can find vegetable, herb and fruit plants
like you remember from your family's garden years ago. Our motto is: "Where flavor comes first."
This year the nursery is open 7 days a week through 6/2/12. 12-5 Monday through Friday and 10-3 Saturday-Sunday.
We'll be at Vancouver Farmer's Market on Saturdays and Sundays through 6/2/12.
Big News:
Produce For Sale at the Nursery beginning 5/13/12 - Mother's Day!
We will again make available to the public
our restaurant-served, sustainably grown, seasonal produce for sale at the Farm and Nursery. Our four green mixes, sweet carrots,
huge asparagus from Toppenish, leeks, fingerling potatoes, chard, kale and edible flowers are just the start. The peaches,
nectarines and corn, tomatoes, peppers and eggplant we are so famous for will follow during the season. ALSO, we are
again offering our multi-colored delicious farm fresh chicken eggs and even meat chickens. Plus, we are taking reservations
for our famous Heritage Turkeys to grace your table come Thanksgiving.
5/11 Update
The Green Zebras, Momotaros,
Mariana's Peace tomatos and all basil plants are ready at the nursery.
4/22 Update
The nursery will be
open Monday and Tuesday, April 23 and 24 12 - 5 BUT WILL BE CLOSED WEDNESDAY THRU SUNDAY APRIL 25 to 29, to facilitate us
having our usual huge booth at the Clark County Home and Garden Idea Fair. OUR BOOTH LOCATION IS CHANGED THIS YEAR! We are in the main plant sale building, booths 53-55 and 63-65 - just come in the
main front door (North side of the building) and we'll be right there! The show is Friday 9-6, Saturday 9-6 and Sunday
10-5.
4/15 Update
Fully 3/4 of all of our tomato varieties are now available
for sale, and 31 of the 45 of our bell, sweet non-bell and chile peppers are ready too. Some of
our Ultra-hots, including the world's largest ultra-hot pepper, the Hot
Cow Horn, are ready too! We have some very interesting additions
to both the 2012 Tomato and Pepper lists which are up now. Many new tomatoes and even more new peppers - all of
the new Top 10 Hottest Peppers in The World, including the new World's Record Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, with over 2,000,000
Schoville units! We also will have available huge, two-year old and two-gallon sized pepper plants too: Bhuts, Savinas,
Fataliis, Lemon Drops and Habs - easily the broadest and deepest hot pepper source in the Northwest!
So many new
tomatoes and peppers that we're back to printing the Tomato and Pepper list on legal sized paper. Check out our updated
and greatly expanded 2012 Vegetables, 2012 Herbs/Perennials/Hostas and 2012 Berries/Grapes/Melons pages. With the Tomato
and Pepper Lists, this is essentially all of the starts that we grow!
The Kozy Coats, red mulch and Sea
Magic Kelp powder are back in stock; and we have the 4 foot square cages now as well . The
Big News is that we finally have the Tomato machine cages available, the monster 7 foot cages that are s o
stout you can climb them. Also, we have a local source for Earthtainers, the generic version of
the best soil/hydroponics container system we've ever seen, which can fit inside the Tomato Machine cages! Yes,
gardeners should be taking advantage of this cool El Nino Spring we're 'enjoying'. Put in as large
of plants as you can find as early as you can and especially put in later-season ripening plants
BUT ONLY WITH active frost protection; you can almost guarantee that we'll have at least two more
frosts before the first week of May. Use the effective Kozy Coats or plastic-wrapped tomato cages with water bottles
inside. See Kym Pokorny's insightful article discussing them on the Oregonian's web site.
The back to back winner of the West Coast's largest tomato taste contest. In 2004 AND 2005 the classic heirloom tomato
Pineapple won Territorial Seeds' Tomato Tasteoff, which is a double-blind taste where the judges cannot see nor ask
questions about the tomatos they sample. It's strictly won on flavor and Pineapple won it two years running; a feat unlikely
ever to happen again. Yes they really are that big, and have that ohmigosh flavor...Old German is thought to be a related
heirloom tomato, as it is a red base with yellow and orange versus the yellow base with red and orange of the Pineapple...both
stellar tomatoes!
Some folks don't believe how much our plants grow. Below are some photos from Tom Lipman in Hillsdale which will
show you how fast (and how big) they grow... Thanks a lot Tom! And take a look at the last photo...all of that in JUST ONE
DAY'S harvest!
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