The Fork in the Road

Honor System Market

11363 Kansas Spur Riley, KS 66531

Welcome to our farm at The Fork in the Road! Our honor-system market is open 6:00 am - 10:00 pm for your shopping convenience. We carry home raised beef and pork, fruits and vegetables, local honey & jams, locally roasted coffee - as well as a variety of homemade food: pies, carrot cake, cookie dough, banana bread, and take-and-bake casseroles… we change it up with the seasons, so you never know what you’ll find! We bake cinnamon rolls every Friday morning - get them warm and gooey as early as 7:00 a.m. (First come, first served.)

We do not accept credit cards, but cash, check, venmo, and paypal are all accepted. We live here and are always happy to help - call anytime!

785-443-1796

4/9/2026 Update - Plants Delivery (including tomatoes) & JoBos BBQ Sauce

April 09, 2026  /  Valerie Visser

We are now carrying locally-famous JoBos BBQ Sauce. We’ve enjoyed their sauce (& cooking!) at the annual Riley Fall Festival BBQ Competition for years, and they’ve recently gotten licensed for selling their products retail. We really like the milder “Bronze”, “Smokey”, and “Original” - but if you like spicy sauce, they’ve got you covered. One variety even comes with caution tape - consider yourselves warned! $9/jar

Our plant delivery arrived yesterday! We received the following:

Annual 6 packs - $4 - ageratum, begonia, gomphrena, hypoestes, impatiens, marigolds, portulaca (rose moss), salvia, snapdragon, verbena, Cora upright vinca.

Accent Individual - $4 - lizard leaf celosia, dichondra, eucalyptus, juncus grass (Blue Arrows, Twister), lotus, mezoo, Corsican mint, wire vine, Swedish ivy, plectanthus, several types of sedum, succulents, vinca vine

Annual Individual - $6 - angelonia, bacopa, begonia, caladium, calibrachoa, canna, coleus, crossandra, dahlia, euphorbia, fuschia, geranium, lantana, nasturtium, petunias, portulaca, salvia, verbena, Cora cascade vinca

Perennial Individual - $6 - agastache, ajuga (bugleweed), silver mound artemisia, coreopsis (tickseed), delosperma (ice plant), dianthus, erysimum, gaillardia (blanket flowers), fescue grass, heuchera (coral bells), lavender, perovskia (Russian sage), salvia, shasta daisy.

Herbs - $4 - Basil, lemon grass, mint, oregano, rosemary.

Veggie Individual - $3 or 10/$25 - Summer Breeze strawberry plants, cucumbers (Bush Crop, Bush Pickle, English Burpless, Mini Me, Persian), Clemson Spineless Okra, Ball’s Zucchini, Easy Pick Gold Yellow Squash, Tomatillo

Veggie 6 packs - $4 - spinach

Tomatoes - $3 or 10/$25 - Beefsteak, Bush Champion, Bush Early Girl, Celebrity, Cherokee Purple, Cherry (Super Sweet 100, Sweet Million, Yellow Pear), Early Girl, Fourth of July, Juliet Grape, Jetstar, Lemon Boy, Mortgage Lifter, Neosho’s Favorite, Park’s Whopper, Roma (Amish Paste, La Roma Red, San Marzano)

Peppers - $3 or 10/$25 - Anaheim, Early Summer Yellow Bell, Garden Salsa, Goliath Griller, Habanero, Hungarian Hot, Jalapeno, Mucho Nacho, Orange Blaze Bell, Poblano, Red Beauty Bell

10” Dahlia - $20

10” Geranium - $20

Small Combo Pots - $20

10” Hanging Basket Combos, Calibrachoa, “Fluffy Ruffles” Fern - $20

Succulent Bowls - $30

Firefly Petunias (Glow in the Dark!) - $30

12” Fiber Hanging Basket Combos - $40

Large Round Combo Pots - $40

Large Square Combo Pots - $40

Finally, please excuse the mess while we do a little tidying up. It always gets worse before it gets better… at least that’s how it seems to work for me! We should have extended parking soon, and we plan to use the little old shed for straw bales once we have more after wheat harvest.







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4/1/2026 Update - Flowers, Rhubarb Plants, Casseroles, Pies - NO Cinnamon Rolls

April 01, 2026  /  Valerie Visser

Neosho Gardens delivery today - here’s a list of new arrivals & pictures!

Annual 6 packs - $4 - Alyssum, dahlberg, dusty miller, lobelia, marigolds, pansies, snapdragons

Accent Individual - $4 - Dracena spike grass, Phoenix Green carex grass, Blue Arrows juncus grass, Twister juncus grass, lysimachia (Creeping Jenny), a variety of succulents, vinca vine

Annual Individual - $6 - Bidens, cordyline ($8), dahlias, dianthus, diascia, fuchsia, purple fountain grass, lobelia, nemesia, osteospermum, pericallis, salvia, scaevola, snapdragon, verbena

Perennial Individual - $6 - agastache, ajuga (bugleweed), butterfly bush, caryopteris, columbine, coreopsis (tickseed), creeping phlox, delosperma (ice plant), dianthus, echinacea (coneflower), erysimum, gaillardia (blanket flowers), gaura, fescue grass, iberis (candytufts), lavender, lily, lobelia, nepeta (catmint), rudbeckia (black eyed Susan, salvia, saxifraga, scabiosa (pincushion flower), shasta daisy, yarrow.

Herbs - $4 - Basil, chives, cilantro, dill, mint, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, tarragon, thyme

Veggie Individual - $3 - Summer Breeze strawberry plants ($25/flat)

Veggie 6 packs - $4 - broccoli, brussel sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, lettuce, spinach

10” Dahlia - $20

Small Combo Pots - $20

10” Hanging Baskets, “Fluffy Ruffles” Fern - $20

Succulent Bowls - $30

We have rhubarb plants from a local farmer - $12 each.

We’ve been browning a LOT of hamburger this week to restock casseroles - lasagna, tater tot casserole, and taco cornbread casserole on Tuesday and planning to make Shepherd’s Pie on Thursday. We made carrot cake again on Tuesday and plan to restock pies on Thursday. We should have Cherry, Apple, Pear, Blueberry, Strawberry, and Razzle Dazzle.

Reminder - we will NOT have cinnamon rolls on Friday. This is one of two planned Fridays that we do not make cinnamon rolls throughout the year. (Christmas and Easter)






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3/25/2026 Update - Flowers & Apple Pie

March 25, 2026  /  Valerie Visser

Flowers arrived today! Here’s a list of what we received:

Annual 6 packs - $4 - Alyssum, pansies, snapdragons, violas, dusty miller

Annual Individual - $6 - Bidens, flowering kale, osteospermum, ranunculus

Perennial Individual - $6 - ajuga (bugleweed), coreopsis (tickseed), delosperma (ice plant), dianthus, echinacea (coneflower), gaillardia (blanket flowers), gaura, fescue grass, iberis (candytufts), lavender, monarda (bee balm), nepeta (catmint), perovskia (Russian sage), rudbeckia (black eyed Susan, salvia, scabiosa (pincushion flower), shasta daisy, stachys (lamb’s ear), yarrow.

Herbs - $4 - Chives, fennel, mojito mint, sage

Veggie 6 packs - $4 - broccoli, brussel sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, lettuce, spinach

Tomato Individual - $3 - Cherry (Sweet Million), Early Girl, Jetstar

Pansy Bowls - $10

10” Ranunculus - $20

Small Combo Pots - $20

Large Combo Pots - $40

We are happy that once again our plant prices will remain the same this year. The only exception will be the individual veggie plants, now $3 instead of $2 each. That adds up for some of you who plant large gardens, so we will have flat discounts. We did receive a few tomatoes today, but that is NOT a recommendation to plant them, unless they are in a pot you can move inside. They don’t like to get below 45 degrees!

Our plants are coming from Neosho Gardens again, but the plants are labeled a little differently this year, with the information printed directly on the pots. We are hopeful this will eliminate our “mystery plant” section! :D

The main “new” item in the store is apple pie. We peeled a lot of apples and pears yesterday to get restocked on apple pie, apple crumb pie, apple crisp and lavender-pear pie. We plan to make bierocks tomorrow and cinnamon rolls on Friday!

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3/22/2026 Update - Cookie Dough!

March 22, 2026  /  Valerie Visser

Not a lot of “new” this week, but we did get a big delivery of cookie dough! Chocolate Chip, M&M, Peanut Butter, Sugar, Oatmeal w/Chopped Raisins, and Oatmeal w/Butterscotch Chips. We also spent a lot of time making pies - and we now have Strawberry Pie!

Here’s what’s in stock in our freezer: Spinach-Artichoke Dip, Chicken Noodle Soup Base, Lavender Pear Pie, Mini Chicken Pot Pie, Chicken Pot Pie, Tater Tot Casserole, Lasagna, Razzle Dazzle Pie, Strawberry Pie, Strawberry-Peach Pie, Shepherd’s Pie, Taco Cornbread Casserole, Pork Cuts, Carrot Cake, Cherry Pie, Cookie Dough, Apple Crisp, and Banana Mocha Cake.

We still have $10 Quart Canning Jars and a few hogs for sale. Follow this link to reserve a hog: https://www.theforkintheroadks.com/hogs

Planning to start getting perennials next week!

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3/14/2026 Update - Canning Jars, Flowers, Banana Cake, Spin Dip & Chicken Soup

March 14, 2026  /  Valerie Visser

A lot happening this week! We’ve got an amazing sale on Ball canning jars, quart size. $10 per dozen

Potting soil arrived a few weeks ago, but we’ve added a service I’ve been wanting to for a while. If you are repotting something small and don’t want to buy a large $25 bag, do your repotting here. It will cost you about double by volume at $0.50/quart - but it’s perfect if you need just a little and appreciate the charm of not dealing with the mess at home. This pothos (et al. - I have a son who likes to “cover crop” my houseplants) had been suffering from lack of repotting - it took about 1 minute and 2 quarts!

More flowers arrived from Neosho Gardens! Pansies, violas, alyssum, snapdragons 6-packs for $4. Cold crops of cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, collards, spinach, lettuce, and Brussell Sprouts 6-packs for $4. Pansy bowls and baskets - $15. Our first combo pots - small for $20 and large for $40. These are all cold hardy and will bloom profusely until the heat really sets in. (They will not, however, survive the 13 degree low predicted - We will be tucking ours inside!)

This week we restocked Carrot Cake, Mocha Banana Cake, Spinach-Artichoke Dip, Taco Cornbread Casserole (including Minis), Bierocks, Tater Tot Casserole, Shepherd’s Pie (including Minis), and Chicken Noodle Soup Base. We also received some nice berries again!

Finally, if you have been interested in buying your meat directly from your local farmers, we have an appointment with Clay Center Locker to take butcher hogs in on March 24th. You can reserve a hog online (whole, half or quarter) and then you should receive an e-mail that will direct you to the locker’s website, which will walk you through every part of the processing instructions. Of course, you can always call or text us as well. Click here for more information.

If you’d like to hear from us specifically regarding future butcher dates, text “MEAT” to 1 (833) 265-8604 and you’ll be among the first to hear about it.

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3/6/2026 Update - TriStar Seed, Berries & Broccoli

March 06, 2026  /  Valerie Visser

Continuing our theme of getting-ready-for-spring posts, TriStar Seed has arrived! We have: green beans (Blue Lake, Contender Bush, Provider Bush, Kentucky Wonder Pole), peas (Little Marvel, Sugar Snap), sweet corn (Ambrosia, G90 Hybrid, Kandy Korn, Bodacious), beets (Detroit Dark Red, Ruby Queen), cantaloupe (Hales Best Jumbo), carrots (Tendersweet), cucumbers (Pickling Boston, Straight Eight), lettuce (Salad Bowl Green & Red), okra (Clemson Spineless), parsnip (Hollow Crown), pumpkins (Connecticut Field, Big Max), radishes (Cherry Belle, Mixed Easter Egg), watermelon (Black Diamond, Sugar Baby), spinach (Bloomsdale Long Standing), zucchini (Black Beauty), turnip (Purple Top White Globe), dill (Long Island Mammoth), arugula (Roquette), and basil (Italian Large Leaf).

We received some nice strawberries, blueberries and blackberries and broccoli today. Restocked on Lasagna, Strawberry-Peach Pie, Blueberry Pie, and Cherry Pie. There are a handful of rolls left as of 5:31 pm!

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2/27/2026 Update - Pansies, Cold Crops, and Seed Potatoes

February 27, 2026  /  Valerie Visser

A LOT of new items and activity this week! We received seed potatoes (Kennebec, Red Viking, Dakota Pearl, and Yukon Gold - $5/5 lbs.) and onion plants (Candy, Red Candy, Texas 1015, and Superstar $3.50/bundle or 2/$6). Our local Worm Hippie dropped off worm castings ($7/gallon bag). Our first delivery of pansies ($15/basket or $4/6pack) and cold crops arrived ($4/6pack; broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce and spinach). Potting soil was delivered ($25 big bag - we will have an option for buying just a little bit too…). Thanks to perfect weather, our greenhouse received a makeover with new plastic, and we have blueberries and strawberries in stock! We spent a lot of time climbing up and down ladders this week, but we did manage to make Bierocks, as well as the yummy Lavender Pear Pie. Today is cinnamon roll day - though as of 4:17 p.m., there are only a handful left.

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2/21/2026 Update - Apple Pie & Chicken Noodle Soup

February 21, 2026  /  Valerie Visser

This week we spent a lot of time peeling apples, making Apple Pie, Apple Crumb Pie, and Apple Crisp. We also are restocked on our Chicken Noodle Soup Base and Chicken Pot Pie, and we made a double batch of lasagnas. Other new items include some fun gifts for plant people - microfiber plant dusting gloves, macrame plant hangers and a gardening tool set.

Full freezer inventory includes: Mini Tater Tot Casseroles, Blueberry Pie, Chicken Noodle Soup Base, Sausage-Vegetable Soup, Cheesy Broccoli Soup, Lasagna, Chicken Pot Pie, Cherry Pie, Apple Pie, Apple Crumb Pie, Shepherd’s Pie, Taco Cornbread Casserole, Pork Cuts, Carrot Cake, Chocolate Zucchini Cake, Apple Crisp, Bierocks, Mocha Banana Cake and Razzle Dazzle Pie.

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2/13/2026 Update - Dreaming of Spring and Soups

February 13, 2026  /  Valerie Visser

It’s another cinnamon roll Friday, spring supplies are beginning to trickle in, and we are still trying to soak up our favorite winter items while the calendar says we can!

New food items include Sausage-Vegetable Soup and Cheesy Broccoli, and we are restocked again on Carrot Cake, Chocolate Zucchini Cake, Cherry Pie, Razzle Dazzle Pie, and Bierocks (some without cheese). New garden supplies include Dewitt Pro Max 4.1 oz weed barrier fabric (THE BEST) + pins, Benningham nitrile gloves, Sunshine Ceramica orchid pots, all-natural mosquito killer, outdoor pots and, of course, more houseplants. You’ll also find a few Valentine’s Day floral arrangements and 10-packs of small notecards from Ben & Hannah Dunnet.

Freezer items in stock right now: Mini meals (Shepherd’s Pie, Taco Cornbread Casserole, and Tater Tot Casserole), Sausage-Vegetable Soup, Cheesy Broccoli Soup, Tater Tot Casserole, Lasagna (almost gone), Chicken Pot Pie, Cherry Pie, Strawberry-Peach Pie (almost gone), Blueberry Pie, Shepherd’s Pie, Taco Cornbread Casserole, pork cuts, Carrot Cake, Chocolate Zucchini Cake, Bierocks, No-Cheese Bierocks, Mocha Banana Cake, and Razzle Dazzle Berry Pie.

Finally, I thought I’d better address the rumor that we are closing — this is not true. There’s a screenshot going around that, because of the placement of the pictures, makes it look like we are closing, but it’s just an unfortunate misunderstanding. We are still open, still baking, still dreaming of spring, and still planning to serve in the strength God gives us for as long as He gives us this work to do and the strength to do it.

-Valerie

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1/30/2026 Update - Raisin Rolls

January 30, 2026  /  Valerie Visser

We made cinnamon rolls with raisins and cream cheese frosting. We only do a few, and only once in a while, so I’m sure there’s someone out there who will be excited to see this! Also, since we made banana mocha cake this week, we will also have a few cinnamon rolls with the coffee cream cheese frosting.

We have chicken pot pie and beef bierocks restocked again. Here’s a complete list of what we have available in the freezer:

Mini Meals $8 (chicken pot pie, taco cornbread casserole, tater tot casserole, shepherd’s pie), Chicken Noodle Soup Base $9-17, Spinach Artichoke Dip $10, Apple Crisp $15, Tater Tot Casserole $25, Lasagna $27, Chicken Pot Pie $22, Cherry Pie $13, Strawberry-Peach Pie $17, Blueberry Pie $17, Shepherd’s Pie $18, Taco Cornbread Casserole $16, Pork Cuts (sausage, bacon, Ozark bacon, deli ham, bratwursts, pork chops, pork cutlets, pork tenderloin), Lemon Lavender Pear Pie $17, Carrot Cake $17, Apple Pie $17, Banana Mocha Cake $17, and Assorted Cookie Dough $13.50.

Also - great news - we are restocked on Papa Baldy’s Popcorn!

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