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Farm Happenings at Steel Pony Farm
Freshly harvest green garlic and dandelion greens from Steel Pony + chives, rhubarb and lovage
Green Garlic
One thing that surprised me when I started to get to know the garlic plant is that the whole thing is jam packed with the garlicy essence that we all generally associate with just the bulb. In addition to the bulb, I have eaten the stalk, the leaves, the scapes, and their tiny little1 read more »
We have asparagus!
Hi there!
I'm glad to say that some of the new season products are on the way. First among them are asparagus from Tamminga Farms which we will have ready for next week. Some of our own greens are well on their way - I'm hoping that in 4 - 6 weeks we should start to have a bit of Steel Pony produce1 read more »
Farm Update April 28
Ohhhhh your Steel Pony Farmers are eager to get into the field! Things in the greenhouse are coming alive and looking good. I'm expecting that we will start to transplant some lettuce and beets sometime in the next two weeks or so. We can't wait to be harvesting and eating farm fresh veggies1 read more »
Farm Update April 21
This should be the last week we have carrots until the summer harvest. It's been a good run! I hear that we are not far off of having Alberta asparagus available. Fingers crossed that comes sometime really soon!
Restock Alert
We just received a fresh batch of delicious Goodness Bombs. Yum!
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Farm Update April 14
Well it is sure feeling like spring out here. We had some pretty massive drifts blow in at the farm over winter and just a few of those are left at the moment. Green things are slowly coming up in the seed starting greenhouse which makes us itchy to get out into the field. In spite of good weather,1 read more »
Farm Update April 7
Good day and happy Easter weekend! We have finally cracked into the greenhouse in the past few weeks and started to do some seeding. I saw our first thyme sprouts have just come up today and I there will be many more over the coming weeks. I'm really looking forward to getting into the field. 1 read more »
New Products from The Maple Tree
New Products
This week we are adding two new products from The Maple Tree gluten free bakery - their Chocolate Peanut Butter Bar and Fuel to Go Muffin.
Restocked Products
Just this afternoon we received a shipment of herbs from Chickadee Farms, some more fermented products from Culture1 read more »
Farm Update March 24
New product alert!
I am so glad to have Chai Walla's concentrate on hand! We now carry this awesome local business's full assortment of delicious products.
We also restocked Montreal Smokes Sausage from Verge and for the first time have some of their beef patties with 20% organ1 read more »
We've Got Truffles!
I am excited to be starting up the greenhouse next week to get our first succession of seeds started. We start slowly with herbs, followed by onions and then beets shortly after. A month from now the greenhouse will be a lively place as we count the days until the farm season will begin in earnest.1 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.