We appreciate your many new & repeat orders!
2454 YMCA Camp Road, King, NC 27021-7525
We appreciate your many new & repeat orders!
2454 YMCA Camp Road, King, NC 27021-7525
Felsbeck Farm's online store is open for orders to be delivered to the Cobblestone Drive-Thru booths or for pick-up at the farm's market booth.
The farm was hard hit by the April-May low night temperatures after an extended warm spell, when the orchard trees and shrubs bloomed & set fruit. We had considerable damage to fruit & nut trees, and in the fields with early spring veggie plants, but recovery with summer producing plants is doing well, if a bit slower than most years.
If you don't see a plant or shrub listed on our site in which you have an interest, or one you think we should have, let us know via email to felsbeckfarm@yahoo.com. We can usually find things fairly quickly. We now have flowering plants, camellias, nandinas, butterfly bushes, forsythia, peonies, heirloom lilacs, Carolina allspice, Spice bushes, and numerous culinary and medicinal herbs available, as well as hanging baskets of ferns, Wave petunias, and other plants, as well as the veggies .
Corn, tomatoes, green beans and blueberries will be available in early July; field peas (AKA Crowder peas) coming about the middle of July, depending on weather conditions, of course.
Felsbeck Farm began appearing at the Cobblestone market on Saturday, 5 June 2021. Look for us next to Chef Sharp, the knife/scissors sharpener (He is a real wizard at keeping our knives, pruners and scissors in great condition!)
In addition to our vegetables , fruits & nuts in season, we grow a wide variety of culinary, traditional & uncommon medicinal herbs, ornamental potted plants, hanging baskets, butterfly bushes, roses & mini roses, scented geraniums, other shrubs, and many "just plain pretties," for indoor or outdoor enjoyment.
We have five fields for growing a variety of produce, including sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, crookneck squashes and zucchinis, cucumbers, a variety of potatoes, collards, cabbages, broccoli, green beans and field peas, and more, in their seasons, all of which are non-GMO and grown using organic methods. In the orchard & about the farm are heirloom and popular varieties of apples, cherries, plums, pears, peaches, paw-paws, persimmons, blueberries & blackberries, raspberries and gooseberries, American chestnuts, pecans, black walnuts, English walnuts & hazelnuts. In 2022, we hope the goji berry, figs, pomegranate and kumquat shrubs will begin producing fruit.
We were unable to find seed for the white sweet corn we normally have available, so will only be offering the light yellow Honey Select variety this year, but hopefully more will be available of this very tasty delight.
Sadly, thanks to severe late April freezing nights, we will not have paw-paws available for 2021, and many of our other fruits, and some items, ( possibly including the persimmons) will be in short supply this year.
We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express credit/debit cards for online store orders. We do ask that minimum orders please total at least $2.00. PLEASE NOTE: WE NO LONGER TAKE PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL.
At the market booth, we accept cash, personal checks, and debit/credit card, Apple Pay and Google Pay. We ask that minimum orders paid by credit/debit cards at least total $2.00, else we must add a 5% surcharge to help cover card processing fees.
For Wednesday's Cobblestone Market Drive-Thru orders, please wait until Monday to place your vegetables orders, giving us time to check for volume and quality of the veggies or fruit to be picked for mid-week harvests. This year's crazy weather is the cause behind this request.
For Saturday Cobblestone Market Drive-Thru pick-up, we will be checking the fields on Thursday mornings for final counts of availability, so please place your orders after mid-morning on Thursday, to take advantage of the latest counts for item availability. With the varied weather offering unseasonable or extended periods of chilly winds, searing heat and violent thunderstorms through spring and summer, our often stressed plants growing out in the fields may not produce as they normally could do, or at least as we would hope they should do.
For Saturday pick-up, all orders must be placed by 6 PM, Friday, please.
For Wednesday Drive-Thru pick-up, all orders need to be placed before NOON, Wednesday to be packaged and delivered to the market on time.
If you have placed an online order, but circumstances make pick-up impossible, or you wish to switch to a later pick-up date, PLEASE text 336-416-3272 for alternative arrangements BEFORE Noon Wednesday for Wednesday Drive-Thru, or BEFORE 8 PM on Friday for Saturday Drive-Thru at the Cobblestone Market, if at all possible.
Occasionally, we will have special items available with separate deadlines and limited volume for ordering, such as corn. Please work with us that we might provide you with the items you desire, especially when we do set a time limit for placing orders. Farm crop productivity is as capricious as the weather, and we are the only two available to work through any issues that arise .
You have two opportunities to purchase fresh vegetables, fruit in season, and potted plants/herbs, as available, through the Cobblestone Market Drive-Thru options and by special request, directly from the farm with delivery to be arranged between J. French (336.416.3272) and the customer.
Felsbeck Farm has a booth at the Cobblestone market on Saturday mornings, (open 8.30 AM till Noon). We are near the Chef Sharp tent, so bring knives or scissors or tools that need sharpening, too. Please come by to visit.
Posted prices may be changed as expenses require, but we will give prior notice; orders placed between price changes will be charged at the original price, with a note issued of any imminent change. We attempt to keep our prices the same from one season to the next, but with so many crop failures from our seed and plant suppliers in 2020, seed prices for 2021 have risen (ugh!) and some of this increase must be addressed in our 2021 pricing.
Should you visit us at the farm, to pick up an order, or for a prearranged tour, we will be using face masks despite having been vaccinated. We ask that all farm visitors please wear masks covering nose and mouth securely. This is a state mandate/recommendation, AND our farm policy.
We maintain and encourage not only our honey bee hives, but have mason bee 'homes' and encourage other beneficial insects through offering butterfly 'homes' and fall collection and spring redistribution of praying mantis egg cases, as well.
To be announced
We use approved organic methods, to grow our vegetables, herbs, and fruit, purchasing organic plants & seed. (The farm is in transition for organic certification.) We grow sustainably, in support of the land, while providing erosion control and continuity, so the spring-fed streams remain clear and life-sustaining.