Who's Hungry

It's has been a very busy week here on the farm but we are starting to see some nice crop growth!  Ryan is busy hoeing and weeding all the crops that we have put in over the last couple of weeks. With just the two of us on the farm now we are pretty much busy sunrise to sunset six days a week. 

Our new crops including lettuce, beans, peas, summer squash and I'm sure more that my brain is just not currently remembering. 

Today CSA which included a spaghetti squash, summer squash, cucumbers, sweet pepper, potatoes, tomatillos, tomatoes ( some real beauties!), cabbages (or kohlrabi) an Swiss chard. 

If your interested I'm picking up some our tastes goods come and visit us as Grimsby farmers market tomorrow from 3-7. Rain or shine we will be there with everything you need for a delicious supper!

How early morning looks at our rented land off of 4th ave. 

BBQ

It is a nice day here at the market. We have a great selection of items to grill up. A nice grilled vegetable mix on the bbq of kohlrabi, summer summer squash, onion, swiss chard topped with some feta cheese. Sounds like a pretty good saturday night to me!

Rainy Weather

Well it's the second week in a row that we have been harvesting in the rain. I don't really mind working in the rain as long as its not too cold. I will say the most important thing is a good pair of rain boots. If your feet get wet it's all down hill from there. 

It's CSA day and I thought I was all prepared but I popes over to our other farm quickly and saw that beans were ready so I spent an hour harvesting. I picked about 15 liters of beans but they are just starting so I think we will be having an excellent crop of beans this year. 

Check out the photos below to see what our shares looked like this week. 

Shares included: 

Beets

Turnips

Summer Squash

New Potatoes

Kohlrabi

Peas

Beans

Broccoli

Lettuce

And we had a few bunches of flowers. 

                       Full Share

                      Basic Share

Grimsby Market

Well The market has only just opened and we are already very busy. Check out some photos below and stop by and get some fresh veggies for your weekend bbq.

Week five

We are just completing week for if our CSA today and we are really happy with the product we have so far. Top favorites seem to be beets, cabbage and our buttercrunch lettuce. 

We look forward to adding more veggies to the mix as the season goes on coming up soon will be beans, tomatoes, tomatillos, and so much more. 

This weeks csa all set up for the people who pick up at the farm. We also offer home delivery which goes out Thursday through Saturday depending in where people live. 

The above photo shows our full share for this week. Included was kale , cabbage, lettuce, beets, snap peas, summer squash, mizuna, vitiman green, rainbow chard, radishes and green garlic. 

Happy Canada Day

It's turning out to be a pretty nice day here at the farm. We are just about finished setting up for CSA ( we are early this week so people can enjoy the festivities being held across the city)

We hope that everyone enjoys this weeks basket as it is packed full with delicious vegetables. 

The table looks a little empty but we are not putting everything out to keep things as fresh as possible as people stop by the farm throughout the afternoon. 

If read the previous post this week about what might be going out this week I am pleased to say that it was all harvestable. We even harvested the first of the broccoli. 

I am planning on making a delicious cabbage , broccoli and radish slaw for supper tonight. Hopefully you all get to enjoy some delicious food as well!

Rain Rain

Its seems that after the dry start to the season we are now making up for it with literal buckets full of rain. Syd has a kids pool in the backyard and after our weekend of rain it is literally full to the top with rain water. She of course played in it right away with her muddy boots on so now it is a big muddy water pool.

Despite the rain everything is growing  really well and we are blessed to have sandy soil so that most of the water drains fairly quickly. Of course we are also having an explosion of weeds on the farm. This morning Liliana and I were out in the muck weeding our peppers which are blooming and some even have tiny peppers on them.

This week for CSA we will be having the following items:

Available This Week:

Kale
Snap Peas
Cabbage
Broccoli
Lettuce
Spinach
Summer Squash
Radishes (try us roasted or fried!)

Possibly:
Beets
Kholrabi

Our rainy day set up at Welland market, and boy did it rain!