Your organic farm in the Eastern Townships
Were it not for the torrential rains of the past weekend,the tractor and combine mechanical ballet would have continued uninterrupted. Every year witnesses the same field crop ritual. Just as market farmers are beginning to pack things up and in, field crop farmers sit astride their massive machines. Corn, for one, is harvested thus these…
Can you guess the most popular squash in North America?It is the butternut squash, of course. It’s what I hear, and it is also what we note at our farm stands. But this market bias should not keep you from discovering other varieties of squash we produce. In some parts of Europe, and more particularly…
It’s been 14 years of TLC,of pruning them when there is stillsnow on the ground,of protecting them from greedy birds,of going to tremendous lengths to findpickers at the season’s peak– all to ensure enough of a harvest to share some blueberries with our CSA members and our market customers. But enough is enough, the writing is…
Revving up a tractor in the early morning after a chilly night can be a challengeif you’re looking to start your day early. A recalcitrant engine and a wet seat – travails one faces in the wee hours of an early October morning. And so one trains oneself to practice good habits, including – insofar…
Mother Nature always has the last word, it seems.After having made us miserable all summer with an overabundance of rain and generally dreary weather, she seems suddenly to have taken pity on us, gratifying us with an unending spate of sky-blue, sun-filled days, lifting the spirits of your farmer and the rest of the team…
Last week I had to send one of my delivery trucksto the garage again.Something to do with a drive shaft on the verge of conking out. I couldn’t blame it on anything other than old age, since the truck dates back to a time when windows were still rolled up and down by hand… I…
Yours truly would have preferred a bit more sun to start off the week, but it clearly was not meant to be…Instead, it was in the early morning chill and under cloudy skies and that we started to harvest the first of our true winter root vegetables – namely, the rutabaga. There is no more…
It may seem surprising to read this on a hot and humid summer day, but as I traipsed through my vegetable beds this morning, the fields already had a bit of an end-of-season feel to them.More flight of fancy than fact, there was nevertheless an undeniable sense of relief, despite the heat, as some of the seasonal…
I could wax lyrical about the return of sunny weather at last,but I will not – as there are more pressing matters to attend to, such as announcing the start of our Italian tomato harvest to meet your canning (or bottling or freezing) needs. And while we’re at it, we’ll also be taking conservation garlic…
This week started with a bang:first, we spent Monday morning harvesting the season’s onions, which are now safely stored and curing in one of our greenhouses; second, we spent the afternoon harvesting the first of our winter squashes – i.e., spaghetti squash – a sure sign, I am sorry to say, that summer is almost…