Welcome to Annie's Gardens & Greens

It's Not Your Ordinary Greenhouse!

Welcome to Annie's Gardens & Greens

Welcome to our brand new website! Thank you for being patient as we updated and improved our website. Take a look around and let us know what you think.

To contact us:
30975 Lincoln Rd
Fort Atkinson, IA 52144

Phone: 563-534-7760
Fax: 563-534-7652
E-mail: postmaster@anniesgardensandgreens.com

Annie's Gardens & Greens "GreenGrocery"

Your Local Food Connection!

Annie's Gardens & Greens

We're Open! New Hours!
My Calmar location is located at 117 E. Main.  As of January 1, 2010, we will have new store hours.  We will be open Thurday's noon to 6 pm, Friday's 9 am to 6 pm, and Saturday's 9 am to 2 pm.  Annie's has fresh vegetables and fruits grown in Iowa when in season year round.  "GreenGrocery" is not a fully stocked grocery store.  You could think of it as an outlet for the surplus of what is left from our CSA shares and then some. 
Besides fresh vegetables and fruits, the store carries milk, butter, cheese, organic eggs, individually wrapped frozen meats, fresh bread, native wines, herbal blends, herbal dips, herb teas, pop corn, spiced nuts, energy bars, baked goods, honey, and sorghum all in 177 square feet! 

This is also our CSA drop site for our Community Shared Agriculture in the Calmar area every Friday.   

Phone:  563-562-4222 or 800-644-7245
Availability of products for March 11 -13!
Items we are likely to have are:
Potatoes
Cherry Tomatoes
Tomatoes
Storage Onions - Red
Lettuce
Cucumbers

Our produce selection will be getting slimmer each week as we come to the end of our root crops.  Plantpeddler of Cresco, IA will also be preparing for their spring season and will be pulling out their tomato and cucumber crop.

Don't forget, we carry fresh baked bread each week from Dough and Joe Bakery out of Cresco. 

We now carry Marquette Maid Wines, Winneshiek Wildberry Wine, Eggs from S & C Organics, Hansen Cheese Curds, Butter and Milk, Fassbinder's Honey, Clermont Farm Park Sorghum, Mitzva Cheeses, and fresh baked goods!!

Individually wrapped meats from Spain Farms, Fairfield Farms and S & C Organics!
  All of these meats are grown without any hormones and are either grown organically or by the most natural and sustainable means possible.

We NOW have popcorn from FIT-POP popcorn from Cedar Falls, IA.  Stop in and sample some!!

Also available:  Cinnamon Roasted Almonds, and Cinnamon Roasted Pecans from Wildwood Farms of Wellsburg, IA.




New Hours Beginning in 2010!

New Hours Beginning in 2010!



Beginning January 7, Annie's will be open on Thursday's noon to 6 pm, Friday's 9-6 pm and Saturday's 9 am to 2 pm.


New this Year!

Children’s Summer Gardening Workshops

New this Year!

2009 workshops are done for the year.  Watch for our schedule of 2010 workshops coming up.

All children love to dig in the dirt, are curious and learn by doing.  What better way to teach a child about environmental awareness than by exploring the workings of nature.  As children work in the garden they can experience the satisfaction one gets from taking care of something over time and observe the cycle of life first hand.

2010’s Herb of the Year!

Dill

2010’s Herb of the Year!

Dill is a member of the parsley family and is native to the eastern Mediterranean region and western Asia.  This herb was mentioned in writings as far back as 3000 B.C. in Egyptian medical texts.  The word dill comes from the old Norse word dylla or dilla which means to soothe or lull. 

Dill is most always associated with pickles or seafood.  The plant is an annual and grows to about 2 to 2 1/2 feet tall.   The leaves are feathery and produces more than one stalk.  The stalks will then bear flat terminal umbels with numerous yellow flowers, which then will produce very pungent seeds.  These seed heads are then used in making pickles.  Dill weed is the dried leaves of the plant.  The whole plant is aromatic.