Today was a lovely day to be harvesting vegetables! There was a bit of rain off and on, but it was blessedly cool all morning. The floppy green leaf lettuce in today’s baskets is called Black Seeded Simpson, and the pretty pink and green butterhead is Red Cross. There is also a small bunch of [...]
Archive > June 2009
Poor wee berries
Hi folks, I’m Jackie, Stephanie’s sister – one of many, that is. I come home to this little piece of heaven called Covenant Farm every six weeks, a respite from the other five frenetic weeks that I spend working at an emergency veterinary hospital in Oakville. When I’m home, I try to help a little [...]
Ah, darn!
I’m embarrassed. My face is as purple as the Hon Tsai Tai stems, which are… way too woody to be eaten! Since I was convinced that the whole plant was good to eat, last night I chopped up a whole basket full (for the spanakopita…) and tried to cook it. Bad idea. The big fat [...]
Harvest notes June 25
Hooeee what a day! Not sure we were quite ready for harvest/basket preparation in sweltering heat… We hope that you will forgive us if any of the vegetables are slightly wilted. We did our very best to keep them cool but it was struggle all through the day. There is no spinach in today’s basket [...]
Packaging blues and other news
First basket of the season! Before the day began we thought we had solved one of last year’s problems, that the paper bags we used for packaging got really soggy and sometimes fell apart in the bins. We replaced the paper bags with glassine bags: that would work, glassine is like waxed paper so they [...]
CSA Week One
First baskets of the season will be delivered or ready for pickup on Monday June 22 and Thursday June 25. Members will be notified what day to expect their basket. Contents will include: green onions, a few snow peas, a good sized bunch of mesclun (salad greens), one red and one green leaf lettuce, a [...]
Postcard June 14
This is a view of about one third of the field garden: on the left are rows of garlic, and running from right to left are the beds of leeks, onions, lettuces, broccoli and cabbage. In the two sections in the background are potatoes and beds ready for the squash and cucumber plants. The funny [...]
Ode to a tree
Boy, this one hurt! The great maple, the tree that has defined the farm since Lloyd and June purchased the property in the late 70s, is gone. It was felled because the municipality is redigging ditches along the road. The new ditches are great, but to lose the maple, OUR maple! Catherine was in tears, [...]
Stats
Tomato plants: 384 Peppers: 288 Garlic: approx 750 Potatoes: 1100 row feet Lots and lots of rows of lettuce, onions, corn, beans, peas, swiss chard, beets, celeriac, radicchio, leeks, broccoli, cabbage… Close to half of the field garden is planted, and the rest is filling up fast!
Shoveling horse poo poo
Oh how the definition of a “romantic date” changes with the years. Today Joel and I filled countless wheelbarrows of manure, emptied them and spread them over an eighth of the garden. Although not at all like dates of old, it was actually really lovely to spend time together doing something productive and getting a [...]
