Week Nineteen: October 17th Update
That's a wrap! This week's share will be the final share of our 2020 CSA program. It's been a long, laborious, and fruitful season. We've...
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Oct 9, 20202 min read
Week Eighteen: October 10th Update
Happy Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is a quintessentially agricultural holiday. In Canada - prior to our ability to import anything from...
Oct 2, 20201 min read
Week Seventeen: October 3rd Update
Definitely Fall If the date, the weather, and the shorter days didn't convince you, allow the trees to make the case for fall! Our 2020...
Sep 25, 20201 min read
Week Sixteen: September 26th Update
First Hard Frost: September 19th Last Friday marked the first hard frost of the fall season. The overnight temperature dropped below zero...
Sep 18, 20202 min read
Week Fifteen: September 19th Update
Frost: Nature's "Last Call" Despite a few frost advisories and some near-zero overnight lows, our garden has not yet been hit by frost....
Sep 11, 20202 min read
Week Fourteen: September 12th Update
Well, it's certainly feeling like fall. Rather than working in shorts and t-shirts, guzzling water, and rejoicing at whatever reprieve a...
Sep 4, 20202 min read
Week Thirteen: September 5th Update
A foggy morning at the farm Bell Peppers At long last this weeks shares will include Bell Peppers. This is our first year growing peppers...
Aug 28, 20201 min read
Week Twelve: August 29th Update
As August comes to a close we find ourselves more carefully checking the night time low temperatures. The potential frost warning this...
Aug 21, 20202 min read
Week Eleven: August 22nd Update
Watch out! - Hot Peppers This week's shares will include a couple of hot and spicy banana peppers. We'd just like to remind you to take...
Aug 14, 20203 min read
Week Ten: August 15th Update
Problem solving is an activity that seems to define farming and gardening at any sort of scale. From the ether flows a seemingly endless...
Aug 7, 20202 min read
Week Nine: August 8th Update
What a fantastic week. A helpful amount of rain and relatively cool daytime temperatures, it certainly makes our days a little more...
Jul 31, 20202 min read
Week Eight: August 1st Update
Mystery Box! The weeks ahead... We have a number of crops that are starting to bear fruit but because of their nature, will not bear all...
Jul 24, 20202 min read
Week Seven: July 25th Update
Beets or Peas This week we're shy of enough beets to give everyone a sensible share. For the handful of CSA members who don't get beets,...
Jul 17, 20202 min read
Week Six: July 18th Update
Remember those pollinator seeds? You might remember that the first share of the season contained a small package of pollinator seeds....
Jul 10, 20204 min read
Week Five: July 11th Update
Adapting to excessive heat You may have noticed that it's been hot lately. Very hot. For significant periods of time, it's been too hot...
Jul 3, 20203 min read
Week Four: July 4th Update
Food Bank Support This week we sent just over 40kg of produce to the Kawartha Lakes Food Source. To reduce handling of the produce,...
Jun 26, 20202 min read
Week Three: June 27th Update
Another week behind us, a new share on it's way. We wanted to let you know that next week's share will not include microgreens (Gasp!)....
Jun 19, 20202 min read
Another one: June 20th Shares & Update
This week went smoother than last. While it was hot, there was no major wind event, so glass half full! Our cucumber plants really hit...
Jun 12, 20202 min read
Season Opener: First CSA Shares
Many of this weeks plants started their journey inside in April when there was still snow on the ground and nighttime temperatures well...
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