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As I write these lines, we are experiencing the first heatwave of the season.I will refrain from being unduly alarmist; we will likely see two or three of them over the course of the summer, and typically—if the past is any indication of the future—they should not last long.I will not do a tour of…
We had been eagerly awaiting this week, and it exceeded all expectations.Dry as a stray blade of hay adrift in a Manitoba heatwave, it allowed us to make up for lost time, moving and reinstalling the caterpillar tunnels which shelter our nightshade vegetables, planting our winter squash and many other vegetables, weeding the first carrots…
We had almost lost hope, as May had been so cool and rainy.Would we be able to get into the fields, plant in time; would the sun shine; would the air warm up? These were the questions we kept asking ourselves over the weeks, wondering what the first baskets of the season would look like.…
We were starting to worry.Early May already, and nary a break in the weather: rain, gray skies, and more rain. We were heading into the kind of spring that farmers dread – wet, muddy, troublesome. But the gods had other plans, blessing us here and there with brief respites – two or three days of…
Our seedling greenhouse is two-thirds full, and already,the seeds planted recently are starting to sprout.Onions, leeks, peppers, eggplants, lettuces, herbs, cruciferous vegetables – each grows at its own pace. Some will not appear for another twenty days or so (such as parsley or lovage), while others, much more impatient, are already reaching for the light.…
We hope you have had a lovely winter and that, like us, you are looking forward to the transition to milder weather, if not yet outright summer. We are pleased to announce the start of the growing season and the opening of registrations for our 2025 CSA baskets andmarket ‘loyalty’ cards.We took full advantage of…
Thus ends our 2021 season :an apotheosis, according to Environment Canada and their forecast for sunny skies, albeit accompanied with a bit of a chill. I won’t complain, as the fields are soaked from weekend rains and we still have to harvest the contents of your last basket. Another summer growing seasonhas come and gone, true to form,i.e.…
Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more –or more familiarly, ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do.’ The expression comes to mind as I observe my three sons readying themselves for the deer-hunting season. Preparations include the felling of a few cedars to build their caches, the installation of cameras to better appreciate the comings and…
Each year, as the days shorten and we move into October, I pick up my well-thumbed copy of Verlaine. I always flip to the same poem, a few stanzas thrown on a page, simply written but so evocatively capturing the essence of what we all feel as autumn begins. The poem is Chanson d’automne (Autumn Song), an ode…
Montreal’s public markets are lively these days. We should know, it’s where we spend our weekends. You can feel the end of the season is nigh and like any season end, it is characterized by a last minute frenzy, as some rush to fill up on paste tomatoes for their spaghetti sauce while others load up…