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Farm Happenings at Steel Pony Farm
Farm Happenings for September 29, 2020
This is the first year in a decade of growing garlic that my garlic didn't overwinter well. We planted about 13,000 cloves last October and this August we harvest about 6600 plants. As with any living system, it is hard to know exactly why it acts the way that it does but I have a number of theroie1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 22, 2020 - DOSE Coffee Back on Extras Page
In a decade of farming I have never experienced a fall as conducive to growing vegetables as this. We still haven't had a killing frost and I don't see one in the long term forecast. For the sake of comparison, we typically get a hard frost sometime around September 9th, or the full moon - whicheve1 read more »
Sweet Corn for Sale - Farm Happenings for September 15, 2020
Hey Folks!
This week a friend of mine, Kristen Graves from Figth Generation Gardens (https://www.fifthgengardens.ca/) wrote to me to ask if any of my customers would want some sweet corn. I'm adding this to the extras list so if you are interested please click through to buy a few cobs. They are up1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 8, 2020
Hello! It's been a fun few weeks on the farm. Garlic to me feels like a long, slow moving seasonal clock - planting it is the last thing we do in the fall before we put the farm to bed. Garlic shoots geminating in the spring are the first green things in our field (besides weeds) and harvesti1 read more »
About the farm
Steel Pony Farm provides fresh, local, and chemical-free produce in Red Deer. We put our complete love and care into every seed that we plant each spring until it becomes beautiful, colorful produce that you get to enjoy.
My farm's mission is to provide my community with nutritious produce, while respecting the people, land, and ecosystem that provides for us. We provide you with sustainably grown produce grown just outside of Red Deer.