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Ambrose Family Farm — Who's Your Farmer? | Wadmalaw Island, SC
YES — Our Farm Stand Is Open
Self-Serve with Honor System Check-out
Cash · Venmo Preferred · Credit Cards Accepted
So Fresh It's Dirty
ABOUT US 🌿
Ambrose Family Farm — Family Owned & Operated Since 1976
Welcome to Ambrose Family Farm, where Pete Ambrose and family have been tending 135 acres of the historic Selkirk Plantation on scenic Wadmalaw Island for nearly 50 years. Rooted in tradition and guided by innovation, we grow diverse, seasonal crops year-round using thoughtful, sustainable practices. Every season brings something new, fresh, and delicious to your table.
🌱 What We Grow and When we Grow it
❄️ Winter: Roots & Greens
Winter is earthy, colorful, and full of flavor. Beets • Carrots • Radishes in all sizes & hues • Turnips • Onions • Arugula • Cabbage • Broccoli • Kale • Broccoli Raab • Collards • Broccolini • Lettuces of every color and texture • Sugar snap peas & tendrils
🌸 Spring: Fresh & Blooming
As the days warm, the farm bursts into life. Strawberries • Peas • Squash • Cucumbers • Potatoes • Beans • Peppers • Eggplant • Flowers • Herbs — plus many of our winter favorites still thriving
☀️ Summer: Sweet & Abundant
Summer is bold and overflowing. Blueberries • Blackberries • Sweet corn • Tomatoes of every shape and flavor • Squash • Eggplant • Peppers • Melons • Scuppernongs & muscadine grapes • Okra • Pears • Figs
🍂 Fall: The Best of All
Fall brings a beautiful overlap of ALL the seasons — starting with the remaining summer grapes, melons and peppers, then the arrival of pumpkins and winter squash, spring's salad greens of all sorts, and the return of Winter's Roots and Greens-A little bit of best of all seasons.
Where to Find Our Produce
🌾 Farm Stand
In spring and summer, friendly staff are on hand to help with pick-your-own fruits and berries. During the off-seasons, the stand operates on an honor system. We accept Credit & Debit Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, EBT, but prefer Cash & Venmo.
🍅 Stono Market & Tomato Shed Café
842 Main Road, Johns Island, SC 29455
Since 1989, our market and café have served the community with farm-fresh produce, fruits, house-baked goods, prepared meals, and all the extras a true farm market should offer.
Produce & Market: Tuesday–Saturday: 9am–6pm
Lunch: 11:00 am – 2:30 pm daily
Dinner: Thursday–Saturday: 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm Visit our Stono Market & Tomato Shed Cafe — where the farm meets the table.
Ambrose Farm CSA Membership Information
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Community Supported Agriculture creates a meaningful partnership between local farmers and the families they feed. When you join our CSA, you invest in a “share” of Ambrose Family Farm’s seasonal harvest—grown with the safest, most natural methods we can practice. Your membership supports the farm upfront, helping us plan, plant, and grow with you in mind. In return, you receive the freshest, highest-quality, and widest variety of sustainably grown produce each week. CSA membership also helps protect the future of local family farms by ensuring fair returns for the work, risk, and care that go into every crop.
Why Early Sign-Up Matters
Farming requires time, planning, and patience. From ordering seeds and mapping planting schedules to tending seedlings and harvesting at peak flavor, every step is time consuming. Some crops, like arugula, radishes, and baby lettuce mixes, can grow from seed to harvest in about 25 days. Others, like beets, carrots, and winter squash, take 90 to 120 days to mature. Early enrollment helps us to plan properly for the season.
Sharing the Risk
CSA membership means sharing both the rewards and the risks of farming. Mother Nature is our most unpredictable partner, but we've been farming 40 years and have experienced very few disasters.CSA membership also means sharing in the realities of farming. There are risks for you, just as there are for us: excessive rain, hail, unexpected frost or freeze, drought, wind-borne disease, or unfamiliar pests. A farmer's closest partner is Mother Nature—and she is wonderfully generous, but often unpredictable. When harvests are abundant, you share in that abundance. When challenges arise, we weather them together.
What to Expect in Your Share
Our CSA includes the fruits and vegetables we grow—nothing more We do not source produce or fruit from elsewhere (Optional add-ons like eggs or meats are out-sourced.) Because we grow seasonally, availability changes throughout the year: We can’t grow lettuce in the heat of summer nor can we can grow tomatoes in the winter. Members should expect to supplement their share with out-of-season items if desired. Becoming a member of any CSA is a meaningful commitment to fresh, local food, your family’s well-being, and the long-term strength of your community and its farms. It’s a relationship built on trust, honesty, and moving together with the rhythm of Nature.
Not Used to Eating Seasonally?
If you’re accustomed to grocery stores offering everything all the time, transitioning to seasonal eating can take a little adjustment. A CSA share reflects what’s growing here, now, not what’s being shipped from across the globe. It may surprise you that in our area tomatoes typically ripen in June and strawberries are ready as early as March. Learning the rhythm of the seasons is part of the CSA experience, and we’re always happy to share what’s coming, what’s peaking, and what’s next.
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Join Our CSA
If you're looking for a convenient and affordable way to get fresh produce all season long, consider joining our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Members receive a weekly bag of seasonal produce straight from the farm. It's a great way to support local community farms and enjoy the freshest fruits and vegetables around.
Join Fall Season NowWe'd Love to Hear From You!
Better yet, see us in person!
We're harvesting Summer veggies: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, green beans, squash, cucumbers, sweet corn, carrots, herbs, etc.
The farm stand is open — self serve — any day — 9am to 6pm.
Ambrose Family Farm
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FEATURED PRODUCTS
Gold Beets/Bunch
$4.00
Fresh Parsley
$3.00
Muscadine & Scuppernong Grapes
$25.00
BeeJeweled Wadmalaw Island Honey
$25.00