Farm Happenings for June 28, 2023

Hello from Wandering Shovel Farm!

The garden continues to grow rapidly! The garlic in particular is several weeks ahead of what’s normal. That means we have garlic scapes this week! They have an amazing mild garlic flavour that’s excellent any place you’d use garlic. Also new this week is small zucchini and kohlrabi.

Can’t make it to our regular Farmer’s Markets in Spiritwood and Leoville? No problem, order here from our online Farm Stand, with delivery to your home or a nearby pick up location.

Here’s what’s all available:
- Spinach
- Salad Mix
- Bok choy
- Green onions
- Garlic scapes
- Baby kale
- Arugula
- Dill
- Kale
- Rainbow chard
- Kohlrabi
- Cucumbers
- Green leaf lettuce
- Red leaf lettuce
- Romaine lettuce
- Pea Shoots
- Radishes
- Pastured Eggs
- Homemade Ranch Dressing

This is a one-time online Farm Stand, available for this week, although we plan to do it weekly through June. Place your order by 1:00 PM on Tuesday, June 27, and get it delivered Wednesday or Thursday, depending on the delivery location you choose. To order, simply select the items you want, choose a delivery location, and enter your contact and payment info. Then once we have your order packed you'll get an email confirming the delivery time and location.

This is a great way to get fresh produce, beef, fresh bread, and eggs with the convenience of Home Delivery. Try out the online shopping experience! It works very similar to our Summer Farm Share subscription, if you are interested in that you can get a feel for how it works here. Note: if you are already a member of our 2023 Summer Farm Share, this is a one time Farm Stand that is separate from our regular Farm Shares which start the first week of July.

Enjoy your week!

-Wandering Shovel Farm

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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