Vegetables Available

For those of you who are local, we have the following vegetables available for sale.

Red Potatoes  $1.25/lb
Green Beams $3.00/lb
Purple Beans $3.00/lb
Beets - cylinder or round - bunch of 6 with tops $3.00 or w/o tops $5.00/gallon
Carrots $2.00/lb
Swiss Chard $2.00/lb
Sugar Peas $2.00/1/2 lb
Snow peas $2.00/ 1/4 lb
Cucumbers - mini $.50 each
Cucumbers - slicers $1.00 each
Cucumbers - picklers $10.00/gallon
Tomatoes - cherry $2.00/lb
Field tomatoes - $5.00/gallon
Vegetable marrow - $1.00
Zucchini squash - $1.00 each
Spaghetti squash $3.00
Hot Peppers - jalapeno, chili, Hungarian 3/$1.00
Corn - bi colour - $0.50/cob

Fresh Herbs $1.00 per bunch
dill, thyme. sage. basil - sweet or purple, cilantro. rosemary, oregano, parsley, savory, mint

Dried Herbs $1.00/10 grams
thyme, sage, basil, rosemary, oregano, parsley, summer savory

dill weed - $1.00/5 grams, chamomile - $3.00/10 grams

Newest Member to the Farm Family



I picked up this new little doeling the other day in Gimli, Manitoba.  She's an angora goat and was born this spring.  I've been wanting an angora for a long time now but they are very hard to come by.  She's already been clipped this year, and I was given the bag of her mohair when she came.  It is so soft and luxurious.  By next spring her coat should be a mass of long ringlets. Look for mohair mittens and slippers for sale this fall!  Anyone got any suggestions for her name?

This year I did it!  I got my red currants picked BEFORE the birds found them.  Needless to say, I had an excellent crop.  My two bushes produced enough to make many batches of red currant jelly. I now have available for sale: Red Currant Jelly  $5.00/250 ml jar.  Email me to order.  Thanks

The environmentally friendly way to cut grass. Mows, weeds and fertilizes in one pass.

So, what do you do with old eggs?  You make bacon!!

It's Going to be a Quiet Summer...

Rebecca left Saturday morning for Halifax.  She'll be on the Shearwater base doing her Navy basic training for 9 weeks. She was so excited to go, but I haven't heard from her in 2 days so I don't know how she's doing.  We are very proud of her!

This morning Zachary starting working full-time for the summer at the P&H elevator in Langbank.

Hannah will be busy cutting grass and working with her horses all summer.  I think she has a few shows planned and is taking some horses to a kids camp for 2 weeks.

It's going to be very quiet here... and I like it!

Except... the garden.  I have no one to help me weed, except for Lyle.  It is finally dry enough in the garden that we can get out there and start killing weeds.  We used the tractor yesterday to rototill between the wide rows, and Lyle is using the walk behind for the narrower rows.  The weeds are thick so we have to make a big effort to get things under control.  Believe it or not, there are seedlings under that solid mat of weeds.

It was announced that this spring was the 3rd wettest spring ever.  I thought last spring was bad but this year is worse.  We did get our oats seeded though, which was an improvement from last year.  We have had rain everyday for the last three weeks.  It's very depressing to get up every morning and see rain clouds.  Portions of my garden are under water.  I guess I'll have to write off everything that was seeded on the east side.

I've been busy mudding in tomatoes.  It's slow going and it's too wet to even weed.  On the bright side, the peas are loving this cool wet weather.  They are thriving and I expect flowers soon! 

It was a sunny morning when I went out, hardly any clouds in the sky.  Not sure what that large yellow orb is up in the sky.  It did cloud over later in the day and we got more rain and hail!  Who said market gardening was easy.