About Farm-A-Jarn
Nestled in the beautiful region of Cha-Am, we are a dedicated small family farm specializing in gourmet plants. Our passion for agriculture drives us to cultivate a variety of fresh, high-quality vegetables, figs, berries, and other specialty plants that are available seasonally. We take immense pride in our commitment to sustainable farming practices, ensuring that our products are not only delicious and nutritious but also good for the environment.
We invite you to experience the charm of Cha-Am and harvest your own produce at our farm, which is open Sunday mornings for walk-in visitors.
Seasonal Offerings
Our farm’s seasonal offerings adapt to the changing cycles of nature, allowing us to provide the freshest produce to our customers at optimal times. Whether you’re looking for juicy figs, plump berries, or an assortment of crisp vegetables, our selection highlights the best of what our land has to offer.
Using innovative agricultural technology and meticulous cultivation methods, most of our produce are available throughout the year. Unlike conventional farms, our produce is “harvested to order” so you get the freshest produce from our farm to your table within 24-48 hours.
Orders can be placed online through our page and picked up in Hua-hin or Cha-Am.Garden Plot Rental & Farm-to-Fork Subscription
For those interested in growing their own plants but needing a little guidance, we offer garden bed rental services. This allows aspiring growers to cultivate their own produce in a nurtured environment, with access to our expertise.
If you just want farm produce without growing your own, our Farm-to-Fork Subscription program brings the best of the seasonal veggies and fruits to your door. For a fixed cost per year, you can experience a diverse array of produce and “eat with the seasons”.
We also provide consulting services tailored for growers of all skill levels—whether you’re a novice starting your first garden or an experienced farmer looking to refine your techniques, we are here to assist, guide, and inspire you on your agricultural journey.Community Engagement and Events
In addition to our farming activities, we are deeply committed to our local community. We regularly host garden and food-related events that celebrate the joys of growing, cooking and eating fresh, locally-sourced ingredients. These gatherings provide a platform for food enthusiasts to learn, share, and enjoy delightful culinary experiences together.
Furthermore, we take pride in our partnerships with local restaurants, where we work collaboratively to promote healthy eating and sustainable farming practices. By supplying fresh produce to these establishments, we help support the growing movement toward farm-to-table dining, ensuring that the community can enjoy our gourmet plants in delicious dishes prepared by talented chefs.
Join Us on Our Journey
We invite you to join us in our mission to promote healthy living and sustainable agriculture. Follow us on our journey as we continue to grow and innovate, providing exceptional products and services that enrich the lives of our customers and the community.
Whether you’re looking to purchase fresh produce, cultivate in your own rented garden bed, order fruits and veggies on our page, or participate in our events, we’re excited to share our passion for gourmet plants with you!
Beetroot. Out of the ground this morning. 🌱Our soil here is sandy clay. Alive, mineral rich, no chemical spray, nothing forced. Small farm, slow growing. The beets take their time and fill up with flavour instead of water.Now look at the tops.Supermarket beetroot shows up bald. The leaves get cut off at origin because they wilt in two or three days and never survive the long haul in a chiller. That means you lose the best part of the plant.Beet greens are fully edible and honestly better for you than the root. Vitamin K, vitamin A, folate, iron, magnesium, several times over. The glowing pink stalks are betalain, the same pigment that turns the root deep crimson.How we eat the whole thing: Leaves, fried hard with garlic. Like spinach, but with attitude. Stalks, sliced into batons and started a minute early. Root, roasted until sweet, or grated raw into salad.Leaves attached means it was in the soil this week. No leaves means nobody can tell you how long it sat in cold storage. 🥬Grown here. Grown slowly. Eaten whole.#farmajarn #beetroot #beetgreens #huahin #sprayfree #livingsoil #smallfarm #growninthailand #eattheleaves #knowyourfarmer #soiltotable
🐔 Did you know… if you’re a nice customer, you can actually come feed our chickens with us!Just make an appointment and come hang out with the flock. It’s fun, relaxing, and honestly one of the best ways to see with your own eyes what goes into making our eggs so good.Of course, this activity is only available if you love chickens as much as we do. ❤️🐔Little chicken test. If you visit another farm and try to feed the chickens some fresh veggies… but they don’t come running to you, there’s a chance they’ve never been spoiled with veggies before.Our girls,they know exactly what’s good.
🥚 What does "free-range" actually mean?Short answer: it is a rule about a door. Not a promise about a life.Here is how three different places write that rule.🇪🇺 **Europe counts everything.** Hens must be able to go outside all day. The outside bit has to be mostly grass or plants, not bare dirt. One hen per 4 square metres out there. Inside, no more than 9 hens per square metre, 15 cm of perch each for sleeping, and loose litter over a third of the floor for dust bathing. The grass also has to be within 150 metres of the little chicken door. Yes, someone measured that.🇺🇸 **America counts almost nothing.** The hens need outdoor access during laying. The outdoor area can be fenced or covered with netting. There is no minimum space per hen. No rule about what the ground is made of. No rule about how the birds actually get out there.🇹🇭 **Thailand sits in between.** The standard says hens are let out for part of the day onto ground with grass or plants they can eat, so they can scratch, forage and preen. Extension guidance suggests around 5 square metres of range per bird. Guidance, though. Not a hard line.So the label regulates the door. It does not tell you whether the hens walk through it.What decides that is simpler than it sounds. How wide the doorway is. Whether there is shade and cover outside. How far a hen has to walk across open ground. How many birds are sharing it. Chickens are prey animals. A bare field with nothing to hide under looks like a bad idea to them, so most of the flock stays near the wall.🍳 One more myth while we are here. A deep orange yolk tells you about feed, not about freedom. Marigold, corn, greens. A caged hen fed the right thing makes a lovely orange yolk.🐣So skip the label. Four questions do more work.🐓How many hens. How big is the range. How many hours are they out. Can I come and see.At Farm-a-jarn, we will answer all four. 🐓🥚Eat good eggs.#Farmajarn #HuaHin #FreeRange #Eggs**Sources** EU rules, Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008, Annex II: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/LSU/?uri=celex:32008R0589 EU indoor conditions: egginfo.co.uk/egg-facts-and-figures/production/free-range-egg US, USDA AMS QAD 709 (April 2025): ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/QAD%20709%20Policy%20Update%20Memo%204-22-25.pdf US labelling authority: canr.msu.edu/resources/animal-raising-label-claims Thailand, มกษ. 6914(G)-2560: certify.dld.go.th/images/pdfs/agricultural%20product/a22.pdf Thai range guidance, DLD Region 2: region2.dld.go.th/index.php/th/news-office7/infographic/info2569-11
Two new figs of the week. Fully ripe despite the rain.The dark one is Black Madeira from Portugal. Collectors call it the King of Figs. Deep red jam inside, with enough acid to stop the sweetness getting smug.The green one is Inca Gold. Nothing to do with the Incas. A Southeast Asian favourite, barely known in Europe. Amber flesh, honey sweet.A king and a commoner. Same board.At Farm-a-jarn, we don’t just grow average figs. We grow good, unique, tasty figs.Eat good figs.#Farmajarn #HuaHin #BlackMadeira #IncaGold
Today we had to move one of our stingless bee nests into a new house box.Rainy season = humidity… and unfortunately, their old house got too damp and started growing mold. So we had to step in and give them a fresh, dry home.Hopefully they’ll rebuild their nest, recover, and survive this round.This happens every year during the rainy season. And when the bees are busy surviving instead of producing honey… well, there goes our honey supply.So next time you wonder why our honey is expensive… 🙂↔️ Now you know. It’s not just “put bees in a box and collect honey.”———วันนี้ต้องย้ายบ้านให้น้องผึ้งชันโรง 1 รัง 🐝🏠ช่วงหน้าฝนความชื้นเยอะมาก บ้านน้องชื้นจนเริ่มมีเชื้อรา เลยต้องรีบย้ายไปบ้านใหม่ที่แห้งกว่า หวังว่าน้องๆ จะช่วยกันสร้างรังใหม่ ฟื้นตัว และอยู่รอดรอบนี้นะเรื่องแบบนี้เกิดขึ้นแทบทุกปีช่วงหน้าฝน และพอผึ้งต้องเอาพลังงานไปซ่อมบ้าน สร้างรังใหม่ และเอาตัวรอด เราก็ไม่ได้เก็บน้ำผึ้งเลยเพราะฉะนั้น ถ้าเคยสงสัยว่าทำไมน้ำผึ้งของเราถึงแพง… ตอนนี้น่าจะพอเข้าใจแล้วว่าเลี้ยงผึ้งไม่ได้แค่เอาผึ้งใส่กล่องแล้วรอเก็บน้ำผึ้งนะ
BEETROOT SEASON IS HERE!We have a few customers who drink our fresh beetroot, including the leaves! every single day. During the hotter months, our beetroot harvest is usually just enough to cover their reservations, so there isn’t much left for everyone else.But now the weather is getting cooler, the beets are growing happily, and we finally have more for sales ! 🥰Beetroot is such an underrated vegetable. The root is naturally rich in fiber, folate, potassium and antioxidants, while the leafy greens are packed with vitamins A, C and K. Beets are also naturally high in nitrates, which are associated with supporting healthy blood flow.And you can do so much with them: 🥤 Fresh beetroot juice or smoothies 🥗 Raw in salads 🔥 Roasted 🍲 Stewed or added to soups ♨️ Steamed or boiled 🍰 Even turned into desserts!And don’t throw away the leaves, they’re delicious sautéed, added to soups, or cooked just like other leafy greens. 🌿So if you’ve been waiting for our beetroot… this is your season! ❤️📩 Send us a message to order.
Wherever you're buying food from, here's the most important question you should be asking:"WHERE is the food grown and can you go visit?"Seriously, we don't care where you're buying your veggies, figs, or eggs, or if it is labelled 'organic' or not.But if your vendor/store/farm can't answer this simple question, you should be VERY concerned.A farm needs a physical address. Food doesn't grow in thin air.Just pause and think for a second. Where was your food grown? How was it grown? by who? and can you trust them?Trust is an important pillar, especially when it comes to things you put into your body 3 times a day.You don't need to buy from us. (We don't grow enough food for the whole town, and that's a good thing.) But at minimum, we want to encourage YOU all make informed decisions. And this starts by asking questions and learning about where and how your food is grown.Label is meaningless if you can't physically go see the trees, touch the soil, harvest the eggs, or pull your own beetroot from the ground.We're not telling everyone to go pick your own figs from the trees at the farm. HOWEVER, when you want to, you should be able to do so. Freely. Without anyone stopping you.Food supply is a chain built on trust. Don't let anyone cut that for you.Eat smart.————-ไม่ว่าคุณจะซื้ออาหารจากที่ไหน นี่คือคำถามที่สำคัญที่สุดที่ควรถาม:“อาหารนี้ปลูกที่ไหน และคุณสามารถไปเยี่ยมชมสถานที่นั้นได้ไหม?”จริง ๆ แล้ว เราไม่ได้แคร์เลยว่าคุณจะซื้อผัก มะเดื่อ หรือไข่จากที่ไหน หรือสินค้านั้นจะติดป้ายว่า “ออร์แกนิก” หรือไม่แต่ถ้าผู้ขาย/ร้านค้า/ฟาร์มของคุณไม่สามารถตอบคำถามง่าย ๆ ข้อนี้ได้ คุณควรเป็นกังวลอย่างมากฟาร์มต้องมีสถานที่ตั้งจริง อาหารไม่ได้เติบโตขึ้นมาจากอากาศหยุดคิดสักนิด ผักของคุณปลูกที่ไหน? ปลูกอย่างไร? ใครเป็นคนปลูก? และคุณสามารถไว้วางใจได้หรือไม่?ความไว้วางใจเป็นสิ่งสำคัญ โดยเฉพาะเมื่อพูดถึงสิ่งที่คุณนำเข้าสู่ร่างกายทุกวัน วันละ 3รอบคุณไม่จำเป็นต้องซื้อจากเรา (เราเองก็ปลูกอาหารไม่มากพอสำหรับทั้งเมือง และนั่นก็เป็นเรื่องที่ดี) แต่อย่างน้อย เราอยากชวนให้ทุกคนตัดสินใจบนพื้นฐานของข้อมูลที่ถูกต้องและสิ่งนี้เริ่มต้นจากการตั้งคำถาม และเรียนรู้ว่าอาหารของคุณปลูกที่ไหนและปลูกอย่างไรฉลากไม่มีความหมายอะไรเลย หากคุณไม่สามารถไปเห็นต้นไม้เหล่านั้นด้วยตัวเอง สัมผัสดินด้วยตัวเอง เก็บไข่ด้วยตัวเอง หรือถอนบีทรูทของคุณเองขึ้นมาจากดินได้เราไม่ได้บอกให้ทุกคนไปเก็บมะเดื่อจากต้นที่ฟาร์มด้วยตัวเอง อย่างไรก็ตาม ถ้าคุณอยากไป คุณก็ควรสามารถไปได้อย่างอิสระ ไม่มีใครมาห้ามห่วงโซ่อาหารคือระบบที่สร้างขึ้นบนพื้นฐานของความไว้วางใจ อย่าปล่อยให้ใครมาตัดความไว้วางใจนั้นออกไปกินให้ฉลาด
Can’t wait for another season of tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, and so much more! 🌱🍅🥦We don’t just order seeds online and grow from a bag. We’ve actually been there, visiting the original seed houses and seed hubs in the US, seeing where so many of these varieties begin.A little farm story behind every seed we grow...
