Your organic farm in the Eastern Townships
This week will be busy.It will begin with a harvest blitz to prepare our Wednesday and Thursday baskets. As soon as these vegetables are washed and packed, we need to focus on setting up our stalls at the Atwater and Jean Talon markets. From July 5 onwards, that’s where you’ll find us Friday through Sunday…
The week has ended and begins underthe sign of water.Lots of water. Not that I don’t appreciate nature’s generosity, but…there comes a point when enough is enough – when the are fields soaked, the rows impracticable, and the farmer’s t-shirt is perpetually wet… We already had to kick our heels before plantingour winter squash– finally…
I never thought that one day I would be sharing with you the alarming antics of a singular creature in our fields, the groundhog.What is a groundhog if not the most comical animal in the countryside? Comical because of its schizophrenic behaviour when it exits its burrow, a mix of hesitant waltzes and extreme wariness…
I am still digesting the article from La Pressea few days ago about Time in general andTime that flies in particular.Apparently, we don’t have enough of it…which I can confirm, because I find myself writing this first communication to you, wondering how I could have missed its passing. Be that as it may, the 2024 farm…
We’ve been quietly busy…But now we’re back, epistolarily speaking.Indeed, we’ve been far from idle, particularly in our seedling greenhouse. Leeks and onions are already out on hardening tables, along with kale, Swiss chard, and the first brassicas. That said, we wonder what May has in store for us.April was chilly, and the first days of…
Have you felt the winter? Neither have we.We’ve caught a glimpse of it these past few days, though, with about fifteen centimeters of snow covering our fields that have been bare for too long. Will it suffice to bring a semblance of chill to the air? Perhaps. However, your market farmers cannot afford to pine…
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…