Farm Happenings for July 1, 2020

First farm share going out July 1!

We are excited to be starting with our farm share deliveries this week! We have been busy getting plants and seeds in the ground, pruning, trellising, and controlling weeds. It has been quite a cool spring though, so if the selection looks a bit sparse for the first few weeks it's because the crops have been slow to mature. Right now we have some beautiful romaine lettuce coming out of the field, and the greenhouse cucumbers are in full production.

Are you familiar with sunflower and pea shoots? They are harvested young, at about 8 days, and are packed with nutrients. The pea shoots taste like fresh, green peas and the sunflower shoots have a great crunch with a flavour almost like carrots. They're great in salads, wraps, and sandwiches, or just eating straight out of the bag!

Our newest product is our homemade ranch dressing! It's excellent on salads or as dip for fresh cucumbers. Try it, you won't go back to store bought dressing! It's available on the extras page.

We enjoy eating, and we enjoy growing stuff. So, what could be more natural than to grow food?

Introducing us and our family: We are Trent and Lois Loewen. We have 7 active, growing children. We have 3 farm dogs, a happy population of cats, and a few laying hens. Our house looks 'lived in', and our yard looks 'used'. It is, too!

I, Lois, have grown a home garden most of the years since 2004, and have enjoyed cooking and preserving many vegetables and fruits. Our family has always been an important part of what we're doing, so they'd spend lots of time in the garden, too. Trent has always been interested in plants and growing, so we've dreamed, and wondered how it could work to grow for market.

In January of 2015, a seed catalog inspired me, and I started dreaming of garden, and dirt! It didn't take long until Trent was also enthused, and planning started! Vegetables, fruit, chickens, and turkeys... It all looked wonderful. We started growing with the large garden we already had, but changed to a more intensive bed system, allowing us to grow much more in our space. We were glad to have happy customers, and have enjoyed serving them.

We have since added more garden space, and it's fun to let our children choose a crop or plants that they will try growing. Some of they're choices have been pumpkins, edible squash, gourds, and tomatoes. We chose to quit doing chickens, for now, so we could put more into vegetables.

We also built a greenhouse in 2017, and we really enjoy growing with it! We are interested in working with extending our growing season in spring, and also in fall. For some crops the greenhouse will be helpful with that.

It is important to us to have delicious, wholesome food for our family, and we want to share that with our community, too.

Although not certified organic, we strive to grow our produce without the use of synthetic chemicals, and in a way that is sustainable and beneficial to the land.

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