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Farm Happenings at Firmly Rooted Farm
Farm Happenings for June 11, 2020
Welcome to your first CSA share!
Thank you for joining us, we are truly, deeply, grateful.
This season we have nearly 180 shares, we had only 80 last year. The vegetables are incredibly beautiful and abundant this week, and we hope that makes up for any hick-ups in the administra1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 4, 2020
Good afternoon veggie lovers!
Can you believe it? We’ve come to the end of our spring CSA; this will be your final pick up.
I’m grateful to each of you for participating. I hope you’ve enjoyed it, and that you haven’t felt utterly overwhelmed by all of the green1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 28, 2020
Good afternoon veggie lovers!
We’ve arrived at the time of year where all the things can get planted. Hurry, hurry, hurry and get in the tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, squash, beans, potatoes… the list goes on. We are working our way down it.
Of course, with the heat c1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 21, 2020
Good afternoon Veggie lovers!
The weather has finally turned. For the last several weeks, months even, everything has been growing SO SLOWLY. Now that we have some warmth, and some rain, I expect the plants to explode with new vigour. I’m delighted.
We put in our first1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 14, 2020
We can barely believe it: our Summer CSA is now sold out! If you’ve joined us, thank you! If you haven’t, not to worry, we’ll still be delivering veggies to Shanahan’s quality meats in Goderich, and we’ll also be launching an online store. We wi1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 7, 2020
We’ve gotten so much done this week on the farm, here are the highlights:
1. Our two heated greenhouses are now filled with tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini.
2. We raced the rain to put in another round of sugar snap pea1 read more »
Farm Happenings for April 30, 2020
Good afternoon veggie lovers!
We have now planted all of the onions, leeks and shallots we’ll be growing on the farm this season, approximately 6,000 of them. Alliums are a cooking staple and we aim to supply them right through to Christmas for our members. They are also a lot of1 read more »
Farm Happenings for April 23, 2020
Farm Happenings
It’s starting to feel like spring. Sure, snow keeps making unexpected appearances, but the first crops we seeded outside have begun to emerge, and the ones tucked inside greenhouses are finally starting to grow at near normal speed instead of the tortoise-like rates we s1 read more »
Farm Happenings for April 23, 2020
Farm Happenings
It’s starting to feel like spring. Sure, snow keeps making unexpected appearances, but the first crops we seeded outside have begun to emerge, and the ones tucked inside greenhouses are finally starting to grow at near normal speed instead of the tortoise-like rates we s1 read more »