Holiday Gifts For The Urban Farmer

Whether the gardener on your list is just learning the difference between a shovel and a spade, or an expert well versed in the subtle differences in regional bat guano, all of these gifts are sure to delight and inspire this holiday season.


Reishi Tabletop Mushroom Farm
Royal red and buttery hued Reishi are the ancient "mushroom of immortality," renowned for their medicinal properties. Fresh or dried, the conks can be made into a powerful tea.  Kit contains instructions and recipes, and mushrooms start growing almost as soon as you open the bag. $24 Fieldforest.net

Sunleaves International House of Guano
Show just how much you really care about that special gardener on your list with a 33 pound box of bat poo collected from around the world.  The kit comes with Peruvian, Mexican, Indonesian, and Jamaican guano, which provide organic nutrition for all stages of plant growth. $107 sunleaves.com


Microfarm Kitchen Garden
Want to put better quality, organic produce on your family’s table? One of our Kitchen Gardens makes it easy. Select from three standard sizes, or customize one to fit a unique space. Kitchen Gardens are built using only untreated, Western Red Cedar Lumber and rust proof fasteners. They come ready to plant, and the price of every Kitchen Garden includes design, installation, organic soil, and Microfarm Mix fertilizer blend. Does your busy schedule make it hard to find time to water? No problem. We can install a fully automated Netafim drip irrigation system on any Kitchen Garden for an additional charge.
4’x6’ Kitchen Garden : $900
4’x8’ Kitchen Garden : $1050
4’x10’ Kitchen Garden : $1150
hello@microfarmgardens.com
704.568.8841


Mondi Mist’n’Spray  1.5 Qt. Premium Sprayer
A superior quality, small capacity tank sprayer designed for use in the garden or home. Constructed from high grade plastic to ensure a long life and easy maintenance. Equipped with a swivel nozzle that adjusts from a jet stream to a fine mist spray. Packaged with a bonus 6" extension nozzle for harder to reach areas. Two year warranty.  $12.95   American Beauty Garden Center


Dyna Gro Pure Neem Oil
Cold pressed from the seeds of the Indian Neem tree.  Neem Oil kills a wide range of insect pests on contact, and with regular applications, keeps insect problems under control by disrupting their reproductive cycles. $10 American Beauty Garden Center


Technoflora Soluble Seaweed Extract
The OMRI listed concentrate is made from 100% pure, organic Norwegian kelp, which is harvested on the Atlantic Coast of Canada. This highest-quality kelp is a rich natural source of over 60 nutrients, vitamins, amino acids and naturally occurring hormones that stimulate plant growth, and has been celebrated for its natural fertilizing properties for centuries. Mix together with Neem oil and Coco Wet ( in your new Mondi pump sprayer)  and you've got the same powerful organic foliar solution we use here at Microfarm. $22  American Beauty Garden Center


Coco Wet Organic Wetting Agent
Foliar applications like Neem Oil, and seaweed extract will just drip right off without the use of a wetting agent to help the solution stick to leaves. While plenty of folks use a squirt or two of dish soap as a wetting agent, Coco Wet is a completely organic, coconut oil based option that provides superior stick-to effectiveness for organic insect control and fertilizer sprays. $7.50 gardenersdigest.com


Razorback Professional Garden Tools
Any of Razorback’s  burly garden tools will score a home run with that gardener on your list, but the 2.5 lb garden mattock is an especially handy implement for breaking up hard Carolina clay soils, and the four tine spading fork is a must have for turning the compost pile. Available at Little Hardware or visit razorbacktools.com


Luster Leaf 1847 Digital Plus Soil pH Meter
This accurate digital pH meter displays results from 3.5 to 9.0, and has a pH preference list database for over 400 fruits, vegetables, grasses, and landscape plants. This handy little instrument even allows you to create a favorites list of the plants you are growing.
$28 American Beauty Garden Center

Espoma Compost Starter
Unique, 100% bio-organic mix contains microbes cultured for fast, healthy compost, and Includes heat active varieties, used to speed the decomposition of difficult materials. Yet another great garden product from Espoma. $12.50 American Beauty Garden Center

 
DIG 9001D FHT Hose-End Irrigation Timer
A reliable, battery powered irrigation control device that fits between a spigot and hose end.  This cost effective option for drip irrigation systems has an LCD display, and many of the professional features of Dig’s larger, commercial irrigation control products. $34 amazon.com


Rain Perfect Solar Powered Rain Barrel Pump System
The Rain Perfect pump and solar panel easily install directly to any type of rain barrel to provide pressurized water for outdoor water activities, like watering your garden, running low pressure irrigation, or washing your car. The pump works by siphoning water through a long hose that enters the barrel through the top. It then sends the water out through the pump and into your hose. Completely solar powered, and pumps 100 gallons at 13 psi on a single 8 hour charge. $150 aquabarrel.com


Fiskars Take Apart Garden Shears
Perfect for pruning and harvesting vegetable plants, the serrated edge grips and holds while cutting. This sturdy product features premium quality stainless steel blades,  comfortable soft grip  handles, and take-apart design for easy cleaning. $13 fiskars.com


Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Collection
A great package for a small family garden. Contains over 15 types of vegetables and 30 varieties! These come packaged in a metal bucket for long-lasting storage. Get 30 full-sized packets. $55 rareseeds.com