FIRST CSA BASKET: June 18 The first CSA basket of 2015 is Thursday June 18! You’ll soon receive a detailed notice of your pick-up dates and a reminder of our vacation and miseed basket policy. Note that we divide our bi-weekly partners into two alternating groups (to balance the weekly harvest). This means that your […]
Spring 2015 Seedlings TOMATO Cherry Peacevine: Red, open pollinated. Sun Sugar: Orange, smaller, very sweet. Black cherry: Dark purple, larger size. Heirloom Cherokee Purple: Deep purple & red, large & odd-shpaed fruit, very old variety. Montréal Tasty: Lighter red medium-size Quebec variety, noted for flavour. Jaune Flammé: Orange-yellow, smaller size, very sweet. Black Zebra: Red […]
Time to hustle! We have been going full throttle since our farm helpers Natalie and Caleb arrived last week. We are prepping fields, planting, seeding, weeding and harvesting greens for local events in Wakefield. Every year we are surprised by the sudden arrival of the high season – one week there is snow on […]
We are having a great time filling up the greenhouse with strong beautiful seedlings! After starting the early onions and tomatoes in our basement, we quickly realized we were out of space and transferred everything to the greenhouse to enjoy some strong sunlight and fresh air. Now the main seeding greenhouse is full […]
We are so excited to be out and about now that spring-like conditions have arrived (in fits and starts, of course)! We took advantage of the warm weather last week to clear snow, tidy up the wash station, and prep the greenhouse. In a few days, the onions and leeks that are germinating in our basement […]
** Happy New Year! It seems like a long time since we’ve been in touch with news from the farm, but to be honest it’s been a pretty quiet few months since our last delivery. Because the weather has been more clement this winter we’ve been able to get outside and enjoy the snow more […]
Winter has come quite abruptly to the farm, and this year we are well prepared for the snow, as our farm team was on hand until the end of October getting the farm ready for winter. We are now focussed on the less glamourous aspects of farmwork: bookeeping and data entry! We are also adjusting […]
It has certainly been an eventful and productive summer! On June 4 we welcomed our second son Avery Scott-Williams into the world, and for the past two months we have been balancing life with a newborn with midsummer farm work. Some days we can barely keep up, and some days it’s a blessing to sit […]
(français ci-dessous) The Gatineau hills have burst into colour and the air is full of the sounds of birds, bees, frogs (the sound at night is truly hypnotizing), and…blackflies. After a cool spring, everything has come alive at once, so we are busy keeping up with weeds, hungry insects, and more weeds … really, […]