Late Bloomer Farm

Late Bloomer Farm Late Bloomer Farm & Rabbitry is a small urban farm project. We are intent on using as much of our 1/ We have currently updated our goals..

Late Bloomer Farm & Rabbitry is a small urban farm project started by Seth and Kathy Croteau. We have approximately 1/10 of an acre of land which we are attempting to use to it's fullest capacity for the production of berries, vegetables and meat. We grew up in rural areas and had vegetable gardens when we were growing up, Seth also had experience with raising and processing rabbits. After a number of years working many hours and raising three children we decided it would be nice to raise some fresh vegetables once again. We started out with container gardening on our patio, growing lettuce, herbs and a patio tomato. This quickly led to a desire to expand our fresh food options. During this time we watched the documentary Food Inc and immediately became concerned about the effects of GMOs( genetically modified organism) on our health. We then decided to turn as much of our lawn into vegetable and berry producing gardens as we could and we have accomplished a great deal of this goal. Additionally we decided that since there was a fresh and healthy meat option available to us with raising rabbits we added this to our farm plans. We hope to have a bee hive and other small productions in the future and eventually move to a more rural area where we can operate a full time rabbitry, along with other farm animals to supplement our food sources. our honey bee operations have become successful enough to operate a new business venture. We will now be producing more honey and bee products ..we would appreciate your support in our new venture. In keeping with our new venture we have renamed our farm to become Late Bloomer Farm & Apiaries.

The gardening season is winding down quickly now but hot sauce season has just started. Our hot peppers are insane this ...
09/20/2026

The gardening season is winding down quickly now but hot sauce season has just started. Our hot peppers are insane this year with several plants getting to 50 inches tall and having between 750-1000 peppers per plant.

I had a chance to go through the wax beans a few days ago and we got a nice little harvest of yellow and green beans. I ...
09/16/2026

I had a chance to go through the wax beans a few days ago and we got a nice little harvest of yellow and green beans. I think there will be an opportunity for one more picking of beans. The tomato plants slowed down so much that we decided to cut the vines down and pull the last of the fruit to ripen in the house. These plants produced approximately 150lbs of fruit this year.

I still say this is the best use of land, I'll skip the grass and mowing thanks.
09/06/2026

I still say this is the best use of land, I'll skip the grass and mowing thanks.

Summer is nearly over and we are trying to maximize everything on the farm. I pruned the tomatoes of all extraneous foli...
09/06/2026

Summer is nearly over and we are trying to maximize everything on the farm. I pruned the tomatoes of all extraneous foliage and flowers so the plants will focus ripening what fruit is on the vines. We're harvesting green and yellow wax beans like crazy, there are maybe two weeks left. Carrots and peppers are growing like mad..everything from sweet bell peppers to raging hot ghost peppers. Our cover crop of Fava beans looks great.

The fall harvest looks to be shaping up nicely. Our second crop of wax beans looks good and the w**e crisp apple tree is...
08/24/2026

The fall harvest looks to be shaping up nicely. Our second crop of wax beans looks good and the w**e crisp apple tree is loaded with fruit.

Part of what we do on such a small parcel of land is crop rotation and using cover crops to enrich the soil for next yea...
08/23/2026

Part of what we do on such a small parcel of land is crop rotation and using cover crops to enrich the soil for next year's crops. Potatoes take a little out of the soil so this year we planted fava beans to add nitrogen back to the soil and act as a w**d suppressor. They are growing nicely.

I did mean to show a picture of our sweet potatoes. We planted the slips in early June so hopefully we'll be able to har...
08/23/2026

I did mean to show a picture of our sweet potatoes. We planted the slips in early June so hopefully we'll be able to harvest them in five weeks or so.

The summer is winding down but we're getting a nice harvest of tomatoes. The sweet potatoes look good and our hot pepper...
08/23/2026

The summer is winding down but we're getting a nice harvest of tomatoes. The sweet potatoes look good and our hot peppers are growing like w**ds and we have a ton of peppers coming. We planted nine varieties of peppers ranging from mildly hot to well.....ummm..holy hotness. Needless to say we're going to be making a lot of hot sauce this year.

Here's a few more pictures.
08/01/2026

Here's a few more pictures.

It's been a busy fee weeks and I've been remiss on sharing what's going on at the farm. Yesterday and today I harvested ...
08/01/2026

It's been a busy fee weeks and I've been remiss on sharing what's going on at the farm. Yesterday and today I harvested all our potatoes we got close to 100lbs. The picture only shows the red Pontiac and russet potatoes as I harvested and bagged the Yukon golds yesterday. Our mushroom log is beginning to produce some nice shiitakes. More to come.

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2 Palmer Avenue
Jewett City, CT
06351

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(860) 367-4223

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