Clover Nook Farm Offers Delicious Fresh Produce and More

Bethany, CT - Clover Nook Farm is an eighth-generation family owned fresh market produce operation that dates back to 1765. Originally, the farm was primarily a dairy operation. In 1991, they changed their focus to producing fresh market fruit and vegetables. Today, they have a fresh market roadside stand right at the farm in Bethany, CT.

Clover Nook starts selling early vegetables in June, and they remain open through the fall season. Hand picked daily during the main season, the farm offers sweet corn, a table laden with a wide variety of tomatoes, onions, several types of peppers, assorted vegetables, fruit, and herbs. The produce is extremely fresh and is nicely displayed inside the small building with a small parking lot in front.

On my first visit in a very long time, I purchased sweet corn on the cob, bright red tomatoes, an onion, a potato, zucchini, a cucumber, and a half-priced eggplant. I considered the watermelons, lettuce, apples, honey, peaches and portabello mushrooms. All of my purchases that I have tasted were delicious. Now I just have to figure out how to prepare eggplant....

The friendly young woman who weighed by choices turned out to be a member of a family that attended Maple Hill School in Naugatuck. We caught up as she added up my purchases.

Additional products that are available include feed/ mulch hay, transplants, and assorted flowers displayed out front. During the fall season they offer fresh apple cider, a pick-your-own pumpkin patch, mums, corn stalk bundles, and a variety of fall decorations.

Clover Nook Farm completes the agritourism experience with various farm animals for company. Beef cuts are also available throughout the year from our happy, pasture fed Herefords.

The hours they are open: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat-Sun 9am-6pm.

The farm stand is located at 50 Fairwood Road in Bethany, Connecticut. If you a traveling on Route 63 through Bethany, look for the green and white wooden signs that point the way to the farm. I managed to find it without the use of my GPS.

Our own seedless watermelon is ready! But how does one grow a “seedless” watermelon, if it doesn’t produce seeds?

When you purchase a seedless watermelon variety, it is actually an infertile plant. Seedless watermelon comes from when two parent plants when cross pollinated, will always breed true and produce a infertile offspring.

When you grow a seedless watermelon variety, since it is infertile, it cannot pollinate flowers if it is by itself. In order to pollinate it’s flowers and produce a fruit, you must also plant a seeded variety alongside it which produces fertile pollen. The fertile pollen then pollinates the seedless variety, and it will then produce a fruit, but the fruit will have no seeds in it.

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