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April 24 week 11 CSA

Veggie Share: Cabbage (Billy Lombard) Celeriac Carrots Spinach Tomatoes Red Fingerlings Meat: Hamburger patties Pork burger Fruit:Apples We are in full planting swing with carrots, beets, more spinach and peas are all in the ground. Hoping our early corn will be...

April 16, Week 10 CSA

So firstly, yesterday was mine and Patricia's 22 nd wedding anniversary...:), Good Friday and the milk truck driver tasted something off in our milk and rejected it, therefore we had to dump 2600 L of milk down the drain. To say the least it was a different kind of...

week 9 CSA 2022

Veggie shares:spinach carrots sweet potatoes (Elmridge Farms)dry beans (Websters farm ) beets Green Cabbage (Bill Lombard) Red Potatoes Meat Share Chicken Breast HamburgerFruit: apples On April 16th we will be having a farm event which is simply, a walk around the...

Week 8 CSA 2022

Veggie share;spinach sprouts pea shoots yellow fingerlings celeriac onions Turnip Fruit Share: apples apple cider tomatoes apple chipMeat share: bacon deli Ham We got a little excited this week and started spreading manure.... yup we got stuck but it pulled out easily...

Week 7

veggie share:leeks peeled squashed spinach beans (Webster's Farms)carrots beets meat share:pork and lamb chops Fruit shares;apple pears Seeding update, leeks are planted, peppers are planted, celeriac is planted, thyme is planted, kale is planted, yellow and first...

Week 6 CSA 2022

I promise ....... I wrote a longish blog post and I went to post it, some how it disappeared, 🙁 Now I am out of time. I will re-write about our Gleaning event this week. It was a success, we save all of the seconds and when we have enough and the weather is good we...

Week 5 CSA 2022

We were hoping to pick spinach for us to enjoy this week but we heat the greenhouse that has spinach growing in it with passive solar, so it is a little slow. We have decided that it is best to let it grow a little longer so that the harvest will be more plentiful....

week 4 CSA 2022

The Exciting news is we have started planting the new crop for this year. It has been a full on experience trying to source all the required input to start the season this year. Luckily we ordered our seed and soil very early, pre-pandemic 2 weeks was a long time to...

Week 3 CSA 20022

Was a good week on the farm with a blast of of some nice fluffy snow at the end. We started some spring cleaning in the pack shed which is always nice once that task gets started, to get rid of the 2021 dirt to make room for this years dirt...:) The Saying in Jamaica...

Week 2 CSA 2022

Hello on this Rainy windy day. I had a nice plan for the afternoon but... Bruce called and we have flooded basement at the 551 Canard street, which is one of the houses that the Jamaican Farmers live at, CRAP. So, we are pumping it out and hoping the floating Freezer...