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Farm Happenings at Steel Pony Farm
We've Got Organic BC Cherries!
Hail Update – ample moisture in the soil and warm temperatures have led to great growth in the past week. We have pretty much recovered from the hailstorm that came through at the end of June. We have much more ready to harvest from our own garden for this coming week. We are excited to get1 read more »
Hail Update: July 7
Hail Update:
I'm glad to say that things recovering quite well after the hail storm last Friday. Here are some updates on crops for the coming week:
Collards:
It will be a few weeks until we are harvesting collards.
Lettuce/Salad:
We harvested and discarded a whole bed of damaged lettu1 read more »
We Have Strawberries!
New Product:
I am eagerly looking forward to this week as it will be our first week carrying strawberries. We have connected with Koornneef Farms just outside of Lacombe who have recently moved from Ontario an begun growing strawberries. Their family grew strawberries in Ontario for 40 years so the1 read more »
Steel Pony Garlic Scapes Now Available!
New this week:
Our garlic scapes are now ready for harvest! These are my personal favorite way to eat garlic. They have the texture of asparagus with a mild garlic flavor once cooked. I love making a tin foil pack, adding some oil and salt and cooking them on the BBQ or on an open fire. 1 read more »
Steel Pony - Green Onions, Baby Kale, Baby Collards
We got rain! Yahoo! The garden has been growing slower than I would have liked because it is so hard to get enough water on it with irrigation. There is no substitute for mother nature and a good rain. My hope is that this means things will start to pick up and we will have more and more Steel Pony1 read more »
Steel Pony Salad Greens! (Limited quantity)
Above you will see a photo of my son Adler and I slayin' weeds together in the kale! So cool! He came outside one afternoon this week of his own accord and asked what we were up to and if he could help. I don't want my kids to grow up resenting their dad's garden - I've heard of so many kids who gr1 read more »
Farm Update June 2 - We're harvesting lambs quarters!
We are having fun at the farm! Getting into transplanting, seeding and weeding has been a good change of pace from our winter rhythm which involves portioning, packing and delivering. Pictured above is Farmer Mack weeding in our garlic patch. The garlic is coming along quite well. We had a fair bit1 read more »
Farm Update May 26
Pictured here is Ryan getting some sage into the ground. I can't wait for these herbs to mature later this summer and add some amazing taste and smell to our boxes and our meals.
We had the mixed blessing of a thunder storm on Monday night this week. We were lucky to get about 3/4 of an inch1 read more »
Farm Update May 19
These past two week we have transplanted all of our onions and bunching onions, a first succession of beets, kale and salad mix. We're ready to do some direct seeding next week. The garden is slowly coming together.
Above you can see Ryan operating the paper pot transplanter as he get1 read more »
About the farm
Steel Pony Farm provides fresh, local, and chemical-free produce in Red Deer. We put our complete love and care into every seed that we plant each spring until it becomes beautiful, colorful produce that you get to enjoy.
My farm's mission is to provide my community with nutritious produce, while respecting the people, land, and ecosystem that provides for us. We provide you with sustainably grown produce grown just outside of Red Deer.