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Farm Happenings at Happiness By The Acre
Farm Happenings for October 2, 2019: IMPORTANT PICKUP LOCATION INFO
Farmers markets are done for the season, so there are some important changes to our pickup locations in Didsbury and Cochrane.
For Didsbury we will be switching to pick-up on the farm. This will be the easiest solution for the customers coming from both Carstairs and Didsbury areas as our farm is r1 read more »
Frost, Sun, Snow...
Frost, Sun, Snow...
All of these are in the forecast for the next 7 days. I apologize for the delay on sending the weekly share notice out this week, I held off to see if we had any major frost and then totally forgot to send this off on Saturday evening. Looks like the weather is turning cold, so1 read more »
Save The Date: September 29th, 2019
Save the date!
We are having a customer and friends appreciation event on September 29th, 2019 from 11am to 3pm to say thanks to all our amazing customers, friends, and neighbours. Food and drinks will be provided, plus activities for kids and farm tours. Since this is a catered event we need you t1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 28, 2019
Our sunflowers are forming blossom heads, so we should be seeing the field in full bloom in the next 7-10 days. When that happens if anyone wants to come out to do photos beside the field, or to get some sunflowers, just send us a text or email and we will try to set up some times to come out to th1 read more »
Sunflowers on the way!
Our field of sunflowers is getting ready to bloom, we are about two weeks away from blossoms opening up. Once they do we will shoot a post out on socials and you can come on by to take a photo. Sadly they weren't ready for Open Farm Days on the weekend.
We have lots of room in our egg CSA, so if yo1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 14, 2019
We finally bit the bullet and bought a tractor! While we love our pair of BCS machines (a 749 and 853) we finally had to admit that we were punishing them a bit too hard when we went to do things like cut and rake hay in our chest deep pastures. Plus the idea of prepping 4 acres for shelterbelts go1 read more »
Eggs, Eggs, EGGS!
We have eggs. So many eggs! We have opened up our egg share add-ons, so you can get them each week with your basket of veggies. Or if you know someone who only wants eggs you can point them our way and they can now sign up for just eggs. We are rapidly closing in on full production (95+ eggs a day!1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 31, 2019
Our new flock of hens have started laying... lots!For those of you getting egg shares you will see a variety of sizes. These are pullet eggs, for the first week to ten days the young layers have a variety of egg sizes, and then they sort things out. By the time they are a month into laying they are1 read more »
A little bit of warm...
Looks like summer is finally showing up!Things are starting to really jump now that there is some sun and some heat coming on, though our warm lovers (beans, squash, melons, flowers) are behind schedule. At least they are looking a lot happier right now!
We just want to remind everyone that we are1 read more »
About the farm
Bringing people together around the dinner table to enjoy the bounty of our local food community, lovingly raised and stewarded, blessed with faith and family is why we do the work we do. We tend our land as an expression of healing faith, always aiming to bring greater health and abundance to the land, our community, and future generations.
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