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Farm Happenings at Steel Pony Farm
Farm Update Oct 21
We have been hard at work harvesting our winter storage carrots. We harvest by hand with the mechanical advantage of a u-bar or bed lifter behind our Kubota tractor that undercuts the carrots so that we don't need to dig with a shovel. The tractor takes away the hardest part of the harvest, but we1 read more »
Farm Update Oct 14
HARVIE SYSTEM UPGRADE:
Due to the upgrade to our system, changes you made to your future delivery schedule have been cancelled. For example, if you had skipped a week in November, that change was deleted when we upgraded. Also, if you want an order bi-weekly, you will have to manually skip ev1 read more »
Farm Update October 7
Pictured above - Mike unloading our sweet potato delivery earlier this week.
I am so happy to have sweet potatoes back! Last year was the first year I know of that sweet potatoes were grown commercially in Alberta. We happened to connect with the producer - aptly named Alberta Sweet Potatoes - and1 read more »
Farm Update September 30
Pictured above - part of our colorful squash harvest from last week
We are slowly running out of greens in the field so you should start to see a shift in our boxes over the coming weeks toward more greenhouse grown products from growers in Alberta. We are being blessed with a long and mild fall an1 read more »
Farm Update September 23rd
This week on Tuesday we had our first harder frost in the garden. It wasn't enough to damage many of our plants but even a light frost really puts the pressure on the squash family. Fortunately, we were able to get all of the squash out of the field in time and they are nestled away safely. Onions1 read more »
Farm Update September 16
*Pictured above. Our garden guard dog Bearleos patrolling the garden. Photo by Ryan*
This fall has been giving us some amazing weather. I can recall many years in the past in which we would have had a snowfall (that didn't last) by now, and a hard frost that would have killed off most of our1 read more »
Farm Update Sept 9
***Pictured above. Moody clouds above the garden this week but no rain to speak of.
We had our first light frost at the farm on Monday night/Tuesday morning. The leaves of our squash plants are a little worse for wear but it didn't damage any of the fruits. The forecast looks pretty go1 read more »
Farm Update September 2
We've had a great week at the farm. We have been working to get our garlic hung to dry, keeping up with harvest, and starting to think about cold weather and what we need to do to our garden and infrastructure to prepare.
New Items
We have so many items! Each week when I build these deliverie1 read more »
Farm Update August 26
This was a great week on the farm but not particularly eventful in terms of things to report. We harvested, we packed our orders and it looks as if we made minimal errors. Thanks so much for your orders and support!
Unfortunately the clutch went on our tractor this week so it's in the shop an1 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.