We have been delivering our salad mix to Ground Up and Bruno’s Kitchen and Catering every Tuesday until last week… now we had to ask them for a break… For Saturday market last week, it took us almost 4 hours to harvest and make 21 bags of salad mix. During summer it was less than…
Some of you may have noticed that we haven’t had komatsuna, which is one of our staple produce, for a while… we have been planting them and sharing (involuntarily) with slugs. Finally, we have some available this week! They are still relatively small but we will harvest in order to beat slugs. Slugs are annoying…
Before I started farming, all the lettuces I knew were iceberg, red leaf and romaine. Now I am amazed how many varieties exist and how different and beautiful each of them is! The photos show red oakleaf lettuce. We planted them because one of our customers said these are his favourite. They are tender and…
Happy Thanksgiving! Taking this opportunity, we would like to express our sincere appreciation for supporting us throughout the season. Last week we had first frost at our place… luckily, we have put cover over lettuce beds just in time. We also transplanted lettuce seedlings in our greenhouse. We are doing our best to keep supplying…
Last Wednesday, in addition to our regular customers, we had a surprise visitor. An owl was sitting on one of the posts of our fence. We spent most of our lives in cities and, for me, owl was something from science text book or museum until I moved to Gabriola, where I have heard nightly…
