Your organic farm in the Eastern Townships
Preparations for the 2010 season are in full swing. We are busy completing our warehouse, the cold storage area and our chicken coop. The warehouse is an old barn which we have converted into an all-purpose building, re-cycling old barn planks from the self-same barn to create a cold storage area, a vegetable work area,…
While our main focus at Arlington Gardens is organic farming of vegetables for our CSA baskets (or ‘shares’), we would be remiss if we did not draw your attention to our organic fruit plantation plans. Unlike vegetables, which are, for the most part, sown and harvested yearly, berry crops take a bit more time to…
But our pond is nevertheless the sine qua non of our organic farming activities. Plainly put – no water, no veggies. Last summer we had more rain than we wished for, but as Mother Nature offers no guarantees – who’s to say that this summer won’t be a dry one? Fortunately, our pond is an…
Winter may seem long, but it is a welcome respite after three seasons of intense physical activity, and a period of intense planning activity. Beginning in January, your farmer began leafing through seed catalogues and placing orders to reserve vegetable varieties and quantities sufficient to satisfy our partners’ expectations. March 15 marks the beginning in…