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McCall Creek Farms grows and sells seasonal, field grown produce at our Market, as well as comercially! Mark has approximately 30 acres in production at the peak of the season! The produce fields are located about a mile behind the Market that is located on US Hwy 281, north of Blanco, Texas. Also, all of Mark's produce is hand seeded, hand planted, hand cultivated, and hand picked! Whew! Why is that important to you?
And even with his experiments, there are just some types of produce that Mark can not grow, either because our soil will not support his standards of outstanding results or that Mark has run out of hours in his day to produce! We have searched out and found other growers in the surrounding Hill Country area that grow and produce their own unique products and we have them available at the Market to share with you! These producers are listed on our Availability Page and through our weekly availability newsletter via email!
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What's in the Fields?
As the Home Page stated, and with remembering that the produce market in the United States has become global, quite a bit of your supermarket produce has traveled hundreds, if not thousands, of miles before being dropped into your shopping cart! With the COOL (Country Of Origin Labeling), you should be able to obtain information about where your product came from. Just take a look! So now you know where the produce came from, how long did it take to get here and how ripe was it picked when it was boxed for transport? We hear it all the time, "The peaches (tomatoes, peppers, you fill in the blank) that I buy at the grocery store do not have any taste"! That's right! And the reason for this is because the grower (who is miles and miles away) has to harvest his produce under-ripe so that his produce can be transported to you! Tomatoes, citrus, peaches, just to name a few, are harvested "green" (under ripe), placed into containers, and then gassed to ripen! That's right! Gassed to obtain their natural color. This is why we think it is important to buy locally! Your produce is picked at a riper stage and the brix (sugar content) is higher which equals a better tasting product! This is why it is important to buy seasonally!
Mark cultivates a wide array of field grown produce which he is known for! These include tomatoes ("regular ", heirloom, cherry, grape), squashes, peppers (sweet and hot), green beans, cucmber, and okra! These items are his produce staples, but he has been known to raise other unique and exciting varieties! And remember, some of these products are very seasonal, in other words, only around for a short period of time! And that is what makes local produce and products so very special!