05/07/2026
Im way behind on sharing farm happenings - it’s been 3-4 weeks since we’ve had our farm team at it! Grateful to have Nick back - all around steady guy with a love of horticulture and special expertise in irrigation and fixing greenhouses; and Gage, who we almost didnt recognize he’s matured over the winter. Still exceptional with small machinery, and now that he’s well into being 16, he’s on the tractor often, moving compost. A natural at maneuvering it already. And Mary and Henry arrived from Calgary just a few days ago and are already proving how hard they like to work!
Spring is loaded with all the bed preparation, irrigation & mulching set up, and planting for the market garden normally, but this year we’ve got a new greenhouse project on the go, several new rows of perennial plantings and much more nursery plants for sale. We’re getting there though! The fruit trees in the orchard have gone through their wave of flowering - lovely and lofty flowers of cherries, plums, pears and apples, and are beginning to swell up into the seed of future fruit. The blueberries tender new shoots are budding out. One big biochar burn and batching done, a new 200 foot row of summer raspberries done. We’ve nearly finished up with our regular Monday seeding & potting up parties. Both tunnels are planted out and looking good. In the field we’ve got a cornucopia of veggies getting bigger everyday: garlic, peas, beets, potatoes, salad greens, broccoli, cabbage, green onions, zucchini, cilantro, kale, chard…. And in the next days as we prepare for going to our first Sunday market for the season we’ll be harvesting pac choy, Napa cabbage, spinach… we’ll have beddings plants such as tomatoes at the market as well. But if you want to get a bundle of fresh asparagus and the full selection of plants from our nursery you’ll have to come to our farm stand in Wildwood.
