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Farm Happenings at Wandering Shovel Farm
Farm Happenings for August 7, 2024
Good evening! It’s a perfectly beautiful Sunday evening here on the farm! Lois and I took a walk around the farm, admiring the flowers, and looking at how everything was growing. Thanks again for supporting local small farms, and the families that run them!
Cauliflower is new on the list this1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 31, 2024
We’ve had some very refreshing misty mornings here this last week! It’s pleasant working out in the field with everything shrouded in fog, and the air still and damp.
It looks like there should be lots of peas this week, both snap peas and shelling peas. The tomatoes are also starting t1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 24, 2024
Wow, lots of good food coming out of the garden now! The heat, together with rain from earlier, is making everything grow like crazy! I hope we can keep on top of it and get things harvested before they bolt to seed. This smoke helps moderate the heat, even though it makes it harder to work outside1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 17, 2024
We definitely got some summer last week! The plants are loving it, and we’re looking forward to some more heat this week. With the ½” or more of rain that we got on Sunday, things should really grow!
We really appreciate your patience as we wait for the gardens to get into full p1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 10, 2024
We’re loving all the wildflowers that are blooming profusely around the farm! This last week has brought some more sun and heat (and rain!) and the garden is taking off! A few weeks ago, after the hailstorm, the garden looked pretty bleak, but it’s just amazing how the plants are recove1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 3, 2024
Hey friends! It’s the start of our Farm Share season! We’re pretty enthused about it, but it has been a tough spring. First of all, the last 6 weeks have been so cool and rainy that nothing has grown very fast, and on top of that we had a bad hailstorm a week ago. So that means that we1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 11, 2023
Well folks, this is the last week! It’s been a great summer and we are thankful for your part in it. We very much appreciate you choosing to support our small family farm!
Thursday night we had our first hard frost, -4, so now it’s officially fall. There’s a few plantings that wer1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 4, 2023
Well, September is past and still no significant frost! There’s been a few nights with patches of frost out in the field, but no killing frost yet. Two more weeks till the end of the season, it’s been great! For those of you for whom this is the last delivery, thanks a lot! Keep an eye1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 27, 2023
This has gotta be the most beautiful time of year! I love the brilliant fall colours against the bright blue sky, and the invigorating feel of the crisp mornings!
The end of the season is rapidly approaching. The last deliveries are October 11 & 12, so that’s 3 more weeks. We’ve had1 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.