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After a very warm Winter, and unusual weather in the Spring, Maryland farms face some considerable challenges. Deep Run Farms is taking steps to ensure a robust, high quality product for its CSA and wholesale produce customers.

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“It started with the mild weather we had over the winter. Usually there’s more of a freeze, and that cleans out the soil. This year, everyone in Maryland, and all over the East Coast, are going to have problems with insects and fungus that have survived the winter.”

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“That’s why we scout the fields for problems every day, take preventative measures, and innovate – that’s how we’re going to provide our customers with a high quality crop, despite those challenges.”

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Deep Run Farms has been providing wholesale produce to customers in Maryland for 35 years (Click here to see our Wholesale Produce Price List)

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“We’re always looking for the best varieties of all of our crops.  We make sure to keep up with the latest hybrids and strains as they’re developed, and when we find one that has superior taste, we move on to that variety.  Our wholesale customers demand that,” said Greg, “We’ve seen improvements in strands of white corn, and we seek out hybrids with better taste and sugar content. We’re testing new varieties of tomatoes for better taste, larger size, and higher yield.”

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Deep Run Farms supplies wholesale produce to grocery stores, restaurants, and places like Carroll County Public Schools:

“They need large quantities of fruits and vegetables, of course, and we’re continuing to expand our acreage.  In the past year, we’ve grown from 235 to over 250 acres.  We have short season field corn planted on these new fields, we’ll harvest that in September, and then plant a cover crop, and those fields will be ready next year.”

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“As it stands this year,” said Greg, “we can easily do two to three hundred boxes of tomatoes a week, and 2000 dozen ears of sweet corn.”

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CLICK HERE to contact Deep Run Farms for more information about Wholesale Produce.

Check out this video, below, of Greg Horner and his buddy, “Jules”, preparing the fields for 2012…

More images of our spinach, chard, cabbage, and pepper fields: Wholesale Produce Maryland…

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