Back to farm profile
Farm Happenings at Wandering Shovel Farm
Farm Happenings for August 3, 2022
This is the week for salad turnips! We finally got an awesome crop of them this week! Also on the list is beets, carrots, the last broccoli til later in fall, saskatoons (from Andrea at Leoville), snap peas and shelling peas. Check back on Monday evening as we update some quantities on Monday. 1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 27, 2022
It’s been a good growing week! It hasn’t rained for a week or two here so we’re starting to irrigate again. We finally have carrots ready, lots of broccoli, cabbage, and tomatoes. The peas are filling out so we’ll be picking snap peas this week for sure, and maybe shelling p1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 20, 2022
A few days of heat and sun have made quite a difference! New for this week are potatoes, Swiss chard, kale, kohlrabi, and zucchini. The tomatoes are just starting to ripen and the carrots should be ready next week. Also coming soon are broccoli, cabbage, snap peas, and garlic scapes. Thank you for1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 13, 2022
We had a great evening here at our Open House on Saturday! We really enjoyed the time together with all our friends and neighbors who came out for that. The weather was beautiful!
Have you had green garlic? It’s new for us, but we grew some spring planted garlic for that. You can use it fresh1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 6, 2022
Hope you had a great Canada Day weekend! We had a full weekend with two farmer’s markets on Thursday and two on Saturday. And we’re not even going to talk about rain…
You’re invited to our 2nd Annual Open House here at the farm on July 9, 4 - 8 PM. Come tour the fields and1 read more »
About the 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.
Go to farm profile
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.