May Long Update

We’ve decided to start attending the Sylvan Lake Farmers’ Market next Friday, May 22nd and the Downtown Edmonton Farmers’ Market on Saturday, May 30th. Due to spring being a little behind, but this will allow us to continue to transplant into the field, rotate our animals, pickle and much more. Thank you for understanding and we look forward to serving you this summer. As always you can find us at the Old Strathcona Farmers’ Market every Saturday and Sunday.

Recently received six dumps of well aged manure from our neighbour. We’ve been wheelbarrowing and spreading it out in all of the beds. In the field we transplanted out, burdock root, shallots, early leeks, red, white and sweet onions already. A couple of beds of carrots got seeded out. Garlic, rhubarb, asparagus, sorrel have popped their heads up to say hello! Don’t forget about the endless wedding… #dandelionteaanyone Many, many more transplants await their forever homes but the next run of warm nights here start after the weekend, so we shall wait…

Happy to announce that our first batch of greenhouse tomatoes are starting to bear fruit!! We have four larger varieties off to a great start and today we transplanted bush tomatoes, basil, peperoncino and scotch bonnet peppers.

Every week we are harvesting loose leaf lettuce, beet greens, spinach, arugula, tatsoi and easter egg radish!

Our animals are doing amazing, across the board. Chickens and ducks are laying beautiful eggs. We enlarged the goats pen and they have been enjoying the extra space to run around! The piglets grow in front of our eyes and are ready to wean and get onto weeding!!

Happy long weekend folks!!!