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Farm Happenings at Wandering Shovel Farm
Farm Happenings for July 14, 2021
Whether you like to eat it or not, this Rainbow Chard is sure beautiful! We have carrots again this week, and the first of the zucchini! Garlic scapes are also on the list, which we are always excited to have. Beets, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, and snap peas are all starting to produce but in limit1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 7, 2021
Wow, that was hot last week! I hope you all managed to get a chance to cool off. Keeping the irrigation running was a big part of our work last week.
The crops are growing fast, but it’s still lots of greens this week. We do have some baby carrots ready though! Next week should have zucchini1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 30, 2021
First deliveries this week! Lots of radishes and salad mix ready right now. This is the only week that spinach is available until fall, so if you want some make sure you add it to your box. Also there's Herb Bread and Bacon & Onion Bread (baked by my Mom), and our Homemade Ranch Dressing availa1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 7, 2020
This is the final week of farm shares! Other than for the early frost, it's been a beautiful fall! We're still digging potatoes and carrots, there's lots of salad turnips yet, and the kale is still producing. This week will clean out the lettuce and most of the salad mix. This is the last week for1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 30, 2020
Well, we are rapidly coming to the end of the farm shares! This is the second last week. There's a few new things this week: leeks, which are a new crop for us, broccoli, oregano, and the winter squash and pumpkins. read more »
Farm Happenings for September 23, 2020
We've got fall colours here now! It sounds like the weather will be nice all week, should be a good time to dig potatoes. The onions, pumpkins and winter squash are all out of the garden already. We're still just digging the carrots as we need them, but they've had enough frost to sweeten them up.1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 16, 2020
Here's a bunch of the pumpkins and squash that we picked last week before it froze. They are in the greenhouse to cure for a few weeks before they are ready to sell. We also picked all the sweet peppers and jalapenos, so have lots of those available now. The biggest loss from the frost is the corn.1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 9, 2020
Hope you all are having a great Labour Day weekend! I guess fall is here now. We are getting out the row cover and poly tunnels to keep crops growing in the cooler weather. A frost doesn't mean the garden is finished, in fact lettuce is surprisingly hardy. We've had some survive -9! The children ar1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 2, 2020
Here is an interesting idea introduced to us by a friend. Try using what you have and make an edible arrangement! This is one of our creations. Do you recognize the different things in it? 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.