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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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...