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Oct 16, 2020
3 min

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...

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 anyw...

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 C...

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. L...

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 pa...

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 c...

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 comfo...

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, w...

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. Dur...

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 t...

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, prima...

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!). T...

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 th...

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 b...

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