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Farm Happenings at Wandering Shovel Farm
Farm Happenings for October 9, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving! We’re very grateful for how well this season has gone in spite of the rough start in June and early July. Also, we thank YOU so much for your support, and for choosing us to supply you with fresh, local food!
This is the final week of Farm Shares, so now is the time to sto1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 2, 2024
No more digging potatoes! This is our latest machine, a potato digger for the tractor. We're all pretty pumped about it! Now we just need to pick the potatoes off the ground after running this machine down the row. It'll make harvesting potatoes easier this fall, but in the long run we'll be able t1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 25, 2024
It's now officially fall, and still no frost! We made it past the full moon without frost, so we might be fine for another week or two. In any case, we're starting to cover some of the crops with row cover to keep them warmer.
3 more weeks of deliveries, so that means the last one is the week befor1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 18, 2024
Hey, we have corn this week! Friends of ours at Leoville grew a huge patch of sweet corn this year, so we're getting from them. I believe the variety is Northern Extra Sweet.
Our hot peppers are really kicking in, lots of jalapenos and Hot Hungarian Wax. The sweet peppers are doing amazingly well f1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 11, 2024
These last two days have been just amazing! Beautifully warm, no wind, and a bit of smoke in the air makes for some interesting colours. We’ll take every nice day we get, because any time it could turn cold.
This week we have lettuce and salad mix again, also lots of radishes, salad turnips,1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 4, 2024
Every once in a while things just line up and work out great! Our salad turnips this week are one of those things. They’re beautifully white and free of worm damage, and growing in a mostly weed free bed. The arugula and radishes are also looking awesome!
The tomatoes, on the other hand, are1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 28, 2024
It's fascinating to observe how the garden evolves and how the variety of crops shifts as the season progresses! Now, some of the longer-season vegetables are ready to harvest, like bell peppers, celery, larger cabbages, and onions. The garlic has all been harvested and is beginning to cure, and it1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 21, 2024
20 years. That sounds like a long time doesn’t it? This week Lois and I are celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary! It really doesn’t seem that long. One year follows the next, and here we are! God has blessed us beyond what we expected, and we’re excited to see what the next 201 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 14, 2024
Even farmers get to take a break sometimes! We took the weekend off to go camping, and spent two relaxing days of fishing, canoeing, and cooking over the fire.
This week we’ll be picking the second planting of snap peas and the first of the beans. It’s hard to tell how much there’1 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.
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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.