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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...

Week Eighteen: October 10th Update

Happy Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is a quintessentially agricultural holiday. In Canada - prior to our ability to import anything from...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...