Farber, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Farber, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Farber lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Farber — the short answer
Farber, Missouri: USDA zone 6a, about 219 days between hard freezes, across 183 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~219
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 183 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 6a is Farber's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Farber's 219-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Farber
Each reading below is measured for Farber itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFarber runs about 219 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredFarber sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Farber is in
Farber sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Farber's own centroid rather than borrowed from Audrain County.
What Grows in Farber
Every plant below cleared Farber's own zone 6a and its 219-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Farber?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Farber
Survey cells within 31 miles of Farber checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 248 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Farber
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Farber. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T52N R06W 21ADC2Nitrate · 550 ft
- T52N R06W 21ACB1Nitrate · 650 ft
- NORTH AMERICAN REFRACTORIESToxics Release Inventory · 1200 ft
- T52N R06W 21ADC1Nitrate · 1300 ft
- T52N R06W 21AAD1Nitrate · 1400 ft
- FARBER MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- WALTS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- THE CORNER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- FINDLEY REFRACTORIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- T AND B FARMSCAFO · 1.8 mi
- T52N R06W 03BAA1Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- AUDRAIN GENERATING STATIONBrownfields · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Farber's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Farber.
Total Sites
69
within ~10 miles of Farber
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Farber
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Farber
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Farber, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Farber — CAFO (14 sites) and Nitrate (24 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Farber
Everything above resolves to Farber as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 183 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Farber Average
Farber Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Farber
- ●One soil character for all of Farber
- ●Frost dates read at Farber's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Farber's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Farber
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Farber, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Farber averages can't show:
We read public map data around Farber — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Farber average
How we know this about Farber
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Farber’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Farber
When does frost risk typically end in Farber?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Farber typically lands around Mar 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 20.
When is the first frost in Farber?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Farber typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 219 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Farber?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Farber sees about 219 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 21, about 184 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Farber?
The federal record around Farber shows 69 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (24), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Farber?
From about Oct 5 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Farber's scale — its 6a band and its 219-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Farber's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Farber’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Farber's own scale — its own ~219-day season between 28°F freezes, the 183 acres it covers and 69 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Farber's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Farber's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 4 and the ~219-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 69 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Farber, the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Farber's boundary and the 183 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~219-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Farber's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Farber checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Farber's 183 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Audrain County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Audrain County
- The growing challenges every Missouri grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Missouri
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Audrain County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Farber's 183 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Farber you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 183 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Farber-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MissouriFarber sits outside our named growing regions, so Missouri as a whole is its closest context here.
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