Our Heirloom Brandywine tomatoes plants are going at full steam right now producing delicious nutrient dense tomatoes. Make sure you get to the Downtown Phoenix Public Market early to get your hands on these lovelies. If you can’t make it out to the market, we will have tomatoes available on Thursday and Friday at our Chandler greenhouse. If you would like to pick up tomatoes on Thursday or Friday, make sure you call us at 480-632-0272 before Thursday to reserve some.
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The best tomatoes in town
Friday, May 21st, 2010New workers in the greehouse
Friday, May 21st, 2010If you have ever visited us at the market or come out to the farm, you have most likely heard one us say that all our products are pesticide free. It’s true that we use no chemical pesticides; however we do employ some methods of pest control. We use what are known as beneficial insects to keep the pests out of the greenhouse.
These insects work all day and all night to keep the pests from destroying your food. While we may only have a handful of human workers here at RhibaFarms, we have thousands of insect ones. The Praying Mantis is one of our hardest workers in the greenhouse and we recently welcomed in hundreds of new inspect employees.
If you would like to know more about our beneficial insects send us an email or check out http://www.beneficialinsects101.com/
Take a tour of RhibaFarms
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Have you ever wanted to check out a greenhouse? Or maybe you enjoy our products so much that you want to see where it all comes from. Regardless of your reasons, RhibaFarms has an open invitation to anyone who would like to take a tour of our greenhouse and learn about how we grow. Teachers, bring your kids over to learn a little bit about plants and growing in Arizona. Call Sue at 480-226-4638 to set up a time or send an email over to info@rhibafarms.com
Meet the RhibaFarms Team
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Suzie Nelson is our sales representative. She is in charge of taking your orders and making sure all your wheatgrass needs are taken care of. Plus she spends her Saturdays out at the Downtown Phoenix Public Market, selling and educating people about wheatgrass and shoots. If you buy food from us, you most likely know Suzie. If you have any questions or want to make orders, just shoot her an email at s.nelson@rhibafarms.com
Harold Lindsey(bottom picture, on the right) is one of our farmers. He is the one in the greenhouse making sure all your food is growing and looking good. With years of experience in growing all types of plants, Harold is a key component in the RhibaFarms machine. While Harold is greatly experienced in traditional farming, he is also an expert in hydroponics and will be key in our upcoming hydro project. Harold is also often found Saturday at the Downtown Phoenix Public Market, so if you have any growing questions feel free to come down and chat with him.
Jose Ibanez(left) also a farmer in the greenhouse is the father of RhibaFarms c0-owner Marlo Ibanez. Jose is usually busy planting, watering, germinating seeds, and anything else you could think of when it comes to greenhouse growing. He is too busy taking care of our produce to make it out to the markets, but all his hard work pays off when you taste our wheatgrass and shoots.
Here comes the heat
Friday, May 1st, 2009
As you may know RhibaFarms is located in Chandler Arizona, right in the Phoenix heat island. Growing in the summer time requires jumping though some hurdles and experimenting.
The good news is that with the shade screens on, our greenhouse is growing like a champ. In addition to the greenhouse, we are doing some outside growing experiments with peppers, squash, tomatoes, green-beans, garbanzo, cucumber, watermelon and cantaloupe. We built a couple of planter boxes out behind the greenhouse to grow these new crops. Be sure to drop in on us at the Downtown Phoenix Public Market to see our new crops start showing up.
