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Farm Happenings at Wandering Shovel Farm
Farm Happening for August 26
My apologies for the late customization email, we were on holidays this weekend, doing some canoeing and fishing in the Lac la Ronge area. This week the beans are ready as well as celery. We're also digging garlic so there will be fresh garlic too. Remember that the celery leaves can be dried and u1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 19, 2020
Summer is rapidly moving along! We're starting to pick peppers, both sweet and hot peppers. The "Carmen" variety is what we have the most of, they are a sweet, long, tapered 'Bull's Horn' type pepper. There's not very many bell peppers since they didn't germinate very well this spring. We also have1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 12, 2020
Do you grill your veggies? It's a new hobby of mine, grilling vegetables on a charcoal grill (it just showed up on our deck one day while we were gone. If anyone knows who it came from, let me know!) Beets, fennel, green onions, zucchini, eggplant,and cabbage have all been good, with only olive oil1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 5, 2020
Wow, we wanted heat, now we have it! Everything is growing fast! I know some of you have been eagerly waiting for the salad turnips, this week they are ready. We're also picking shelling peas and snap peas. read more »
Farm Happenings for July 29, 2020
This made a very delicious supper! Garlic Scapes, zucchini, onions, green pepper, and Swiss chard, stir-fried in olive oil with salt and pepper, and topped with Parmesan cheese. Also added some chunks of sausage and burger. It was great! read more »
Farm Happenings for July 22, 2020
Lots of good stuff being harvested this week! I know you've been eagerly waiting for new potatoes and carrots, they're ready this week! Also tomatoes are ripening, broccoli and early cabbage are ready, and garlic scapes are being picked! If you haven't had garlic scapes before, they are the floweri1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 15, 2020
Wow, 3 inches of rain in the last week! Things were pretty wet here for a while, but now with the sun shining everything is really growing. Beets are ready this week, also the next planting of radishes. Potatoes and carrots will be at least a week yet. They got a slow start because of the cool spri1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 8, 2020
We're pretty excited about our new chicks! One of our hens hatched out a batch of chicks last week. I think there are 8 of them. So hopefully we'll end up with some more laying hens. read more »
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 fir1 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.