FARM NEWS This Field Has Been A Real Pain In The GrassBut we've nearly conquered it! This pile represents a half acre's worth of grass and weeds. We've been building it for about 5 weeks now. We're almost caught up with the weeds and we couldn't be happier with how...

FARM NEWS Progress ReportOut of 43 one hundred foot beds we only have two more to go before all of the large sod clumps are out! The next step is starting from the very beginning and weeding out the remaining grass that has already begun to take over. But with...

FARM NEWS   New summer delivery schedule starts this week! The new delivery day for the Nelson area will be this Thursday May 25th. We’ll be dropping off during the early morning from 5 am until 7:30 am and will not be knocking. Our goal is to get everyone their...

FARM NEWS Delivery Schedule Change Happening Next WeekStarting next week our new summer time delivery schedules will be as followed: For Nelson the new delivery schedule will be Thursdays between 5am - 7:30am starting on May 25th.For Castlegar the new delivery schedule will be Monday’s between 5am - 7:30am starting...

FARM NEWS Progress ReportIt took us weeks but we finally finished prepping and planted half of our garden. We pulled out a 1/4 acre's worth of sod clumps by hand and planted around 20 beds of veggies and flowers. Turning a field into a garden has been a monumental project....

FARM NEWS Mother’s Day Is Coming Up Quick!But don’t fret. We’ve got you covered. To celebrate we’ll be offering Bake-At-Home Raspberry Buns and Cinnamon Buns with vanilla cream cheese frosting 🤤   All you’ll have to do is thaw them, pop them in the oven on Mother’s day morning and...

  FARM NEWS 🚨Plants Are In The Ground🚨 I Repeat, Plants Are In The Ground!We finally got our hands in the soil and were able to plant Asian greens, lettuce and snap peas. We're mere weeks away from having a plethora of greens once again 😁   Our First Official...

FARM NEWS Progress Report This week we finished amending 1/2 of our garden beds. Since our new garden space was a fallow field the soil had become too acidic for growing vegetables and flowers. To address this we added finely ground limestone, also know as lime, to help raise the...

FARM NEWS  The Field Is Almost Ready! We had a generous neighbor come by last week to till up our new field. We're mere days away from finally being able to get our hands in this soil. All we have to do now is add in some amendments to balance...

FARM NEWS Special Easter delivery on Saturday April 8th this week. No delivery on SundayWe’ll be changing our delivery schedule this week from Sunday to Saturday April 8th for Easter long weekend. There will be no delivery on Sunday this week.     The Tarps Are Off! We uncovered our new...

FARM NEWS So Long Carrots 😥We got word from Spicer Farms that there will be no more storage carrots. We want to apologize for the lack of vegetables that we’ve had over the past few weeks. We tried our best to source whatever was available here in the Kootenays. The...

FARM NEWS The Grow Tower Since we don’t have an outdoor nursery this year we decided to build one indoors. It uses LED lights and a fan that blows on the seedlings to help strengthen them. Right now it’s filled with onions and flowers. We’re praying for an early spring...

  FARM NEWS It Has Begun!We planted our first batch of seeds last week and they have begun to sprout! This signifies the true beginning of our growing season. In case you’re wondering what you’re looking at, each seed is planted in what is know as a “soil block”. We...

FARM NEWS   We Built a Big Ugly Thing This cumbersome contraption is our new germination chamber. Here’s how it works: You place a slow cooker full of water at the bottom and turn it on. The slow cooker will then create a warm and moist environment which is perfect...

FARM NEWS Meet Brian and Krista of Zero Fox Tree Crops! They run a small perennial plant nursery located in Harrop BC. They’re first generation farmers who started growing edible perennials on a piece of leased land they found through the Young Agrarians land matching program, in 2018. They have...

FARM NEWS   I’m changing my legal name! As many of you know, I attended a ten day silent meditation retreat in Merritt back in January. During the retreat I came to the realization that my life has changed dramatically since I left my home town of Edmonton back in...