Greetings from the farm! Those roasting hot days keep on coming, but it was a blessing for me this week, as most of the workers who would normally be somewhere in the fields were working in the building and the cooler due to the off-the-charts heat. That meant an...
Hello from the farm and Happy belated Canada Day! It’s been hot, hot, hot on the farm for weeks now. Even the lakes are heating up for some early swimming, and I hope some of you were able to take advantage of the perfect July 1 long weekend we enjoyed....
Hello Durham and Pick-up people, This week you (Durham and Pick-Ups only) received some dark little berries called blackcurrants. Through taste-testing in the field, we discovered that they are rather tart and could be tastier if sweetened. So here are some ideas to...
Picking the peas was a great way to start today in the nice cool morning. The weather is giving us some sweet relief from an incredibly hot and stormy week. Sugar snap peas are fresh out of the field this week and they are my favorite of all peas! They have sweet...
It may be simply sweltering out there, but it is still early in the season. The peas are flowering- a sure sign of things to come and the raspberries are forming little buds of their fruit. The asparagus is growing so fast, you could almost watch it move up towards...
After the arrival of your first box, I’m sure some things were gobbled up right away and you did not even have to think about how you were going to use them. Other vegetables might be hard enough for you to identify, never mind to cook into something wonderful....
