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Maple Syrup

The wind chill factor temperatures at our maple syrup farm have hovered at around 30 degrees below zero. While we all realize that it does get cold...

Apple Tree Harvest

Prune, prune, prune…. that’s what the wonderful stewards of the apple orchard were busy doing during the months of March and April. Winter storms...

The Best Time to Pick Peaches

Our peaches are picked when they are firm and put right into a hydro-cooling bath. Washing accomplishes two things. First, it removes field dirt...

The Incredible Date

Besides being the most graceful fruit-bearing tree, the Date Palm is one of the most valuable. Few trees grow to be as tall or provide such a...

Wheat Harvest Report

We are pleased to announce the first good news about the acre of Minnesota wheat leased to some lucky folks (after the stormy winter, floods, and...

Grapefruit Harvest

Our vigilant grower tells us that this year “Florida had mostly typical Florida weather: a little drier in the spring with a wet summer, and then...

The Amazing Oyster!

What comes to mind when you think about “Oysters”? Delicate pearls? A luscious dozen nestled in their own tangy juice on a bed of ice with,...

All About Lobstering

The Romans called it locusta. The Anglo-Saxons knew it as lopystre. Botanists pitched in with Homarus Americanius. The fisher folk of Maine will...

We Got Your Goat!

Although our goats are of French Alpine stock, they were born in the Berkshires in a small village. Their accents are more New England than Paris...

Sheep Report

It was a very cold winter on the Oregon ranch where our sheep live. There was enough snow to have kept the sheep pent up in the barn–a cozy place...

How to Grow a Pistachio

The Pistachio tree is subtropical and hardy. It thrives in high desert climates where the summers are long, hot, and dry, and the winters only...

Wild About Rice!

Most of the wild rice that is available in grocery stores is similar to brown rice grown in rice paddies. It cooks uniformly, and is consistently...

Our Happy Cows

Crumpet, one of the Jersey cows whose rich milk will be used to make your cheddar cheese is a beauty, as are all our Jerseys. Crumpet has a warm...

Yankee Ingenuity

Rent Mother Nature is gift program that connects consumers with American family farms, wherein farm fresh products are delivered directly to the...

Amazing Cocoa Tree Gift

Give someone you love the harvest from a cocoa tree. Hernando Cortes discovered the bitter drink (xocolatl) used by the Aztecs and sent the beans...

Coffee: From Tree to Cup

We, at Rent Mother Nature, are proud to be working with a family-owned farm in the high mountains of Jinotega, Nicaragua that produces some of the...

How the Weather Affects the Maple Syrup Harvest

2018 was a year of extremes. There was a day in January that was 30F below zero with wind chills taking it down to minus 50, followed by several...

2019 Mineola Tangelos

Mother Nature was good to us this season with ample rainfall and very little irrigation needed during last summer. The quality of the fruit appears...

Online Farmer’s Market

Farmer Jill grows a crop of spectacular naturally tree-ripened peaches down Georgia way, but Consumer Jack in North Dakota isn’t going to hop in his...

Virtual Farmer’s Markets

Today’s small family farmers and ranchers are Rent Mother Nature‘s pioneers on the front lines of the “green” revolution. They all share one thing:...

Wildflower Honey Hive Update

The beekeepers at Rent Mother Nature had all kinds of weather this spring–cold, cool, hot, warm, some bursts of rain– but now that summer is here,...

Pecan Tree Harvest

Rent Mother Nature’s pecan grower tells us that the outer hull of your pecans are drying and just now beginning to crack. They will stay on the...

Peach Tree Lease Progress Report

Rent Mother Nature’s peach growers told us that this year’s crop is looking great -Georgia’s sunny weather helps the ripening process along in fine...