It started with ten blueberry plants…

We bought the farm in Chappell Hill, TX from the family in 2016, which has been in the Michalaks for generations. Soon after the purchase, I came home from another farm with ten blueberry plants. Farmer Dave never questioned my madness and helped dig the holes for those ten 3 gallon plants. We heard blueberries were difficult to grow, but yet, ours survived a year later. We sent our soil to Texas A&M to be tested and found out our acidic soil was the perfect home for these delicious fruit. Those ten plants were the precurser to what would become 700 blueberry plants today.

With the help of Mike Beard at Creekwood Farms near Beaumont, TX, we secured 700 Texas blueberries to begin our adventure. The plan was to plant now and maybe ten years later they will mature and we will have a fully operational pick-your-own farm to the public when we retire from our careers. Well, these plants were prolific! They yielded exponentially year after year, and we just couldn’t keep up with the produce. Plans changed and we decided to open early to share our delicious locally grown Texas blueberries with our community in May 2020.

We stumbled onto beekeeping when our close beekeeper friend convinced us to keep bees on the farm. Of course, we didn’t turn them down. Great pollination for the berries!

Two professional city slickers from The Woodlands became farmers and eventually beekeepers. With the great responsibility of caring for millions of lives (honeybees) on our farm, we use natural methods with no chemical sprays on our fruits or vegetables. And that’s our story:)