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It’s been a yo-yo start to the season so far. Just when it seems the sun is here to stay, a sou’wester blows rainclouds our way. Last Friday’s torrential downpour drenched the fields and meant we had to postpone a day’s work of raising beds and laying plastic for our corn crop and our solanaceas.…
Il pleure dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville…”It rains in my heart as it rains on the town…” (Verlaine) The verse is a bit over the top, but if the rain doesn’t let up soon, we’re going to start worrying in earnest. After a cool April and a rainy May, our seedlings…
It’s official, we’ve launched our 2014 season at Arlington Gardens! If you’re anything like us, we assume you’re chomping at the bit and eager to partake in another year of farm bounty. Although we like winter, there comes a time in February when our organic clock starts ticking and moves us to action, i.e. to…
As we prepare for the upcoming season, Arlington Gardens offers you its New Year Greetings. We wish you health and happiness in 2014. Enjoy the winter season – we look forward to seeing you again in early summer.
Yet another season at the farm has come to an end. We enjoyed sharing nature’s bounties with you in 2013. We look forward to a respite, punctuated by the usual winter activities, and we promise to let you know as soon as we see the first signs of spring. Meanwhile, we wish you all a…
There’s nothing like a week’s break to put the spring back in a vegetable farmer’s step, particularly if the week in question was sunny from start to finish. We harvested carrots, sowed green manure, spread manure of the other kind for next year and watched our rutabagas grow. Our baskets this week include Brussels…
It’s always when you least expect it that it happens: the brief heat spell we’ve been enjoying is exactly what the vegetable doctor ordered for our rutabagas, our turnips and our lettuce. The weather has indeed been spectacular – the only thing missing is a light rain, just enough to irrigate everything nicely. But…
Notes from September 23: The countryside is humming again: farmers are greasing their tractors and sharpening their blades. The summer was a good one in our neck of the woods, so to speak, and producers are looking forward to a bountiful end of season, beginning with the year’s third haying, a contemporaneous soy harvest and, last…
Many of you braved the sunny cold on Sunday to join us for our annual méchoui. The event was a great success (pictures, please), and we thank all of you who took the time to prepare savoury dishes to complement our roasts, and desserts to round out the feast. The night before had begun with…
Our winter squash harvest is a harbinger of fall. Following last week’s spaghetti squash, which we’ll be serving up again this week, we’ll soon be harvesting delicata, butternut and acorn squash, as well as pumpkins. Of these all, spaghetti squash is the only one that needs to be consumed quickly – it cannot sit on…