Farm Happenings for October 7, 2020

This is the final week of farm shares! Other than for the early frost, it's been a beautiful fall! We're still digging potatoes and carrots, there's lots of salad turnips yet, and the kale is still producing. This week will clean out the lettuce and most of the salad mix. This is the last week for the tomatoes and cucumbers, as we'll be shutting off the heat in the greenhouse this week. There is some spinach and salad mix planted in the greenhouse but it remains to be seen if it will get big enough to harvest yet this fall. We have carrots in 5 lb. bags and onions in 10 lb. bags, if you want to stock up on those items. There are also a few storage cabbage left, they will keep in the fridge well into January. We may offer one-time shares occasionally this fall so keep an eye out for those emails.

It's been a great season, I hope you enjoyed your summer as much as we did! Not everything did great of course. The carrots were slow getting started, we had a break in our lettuce supply, spinach didn't get started on time this fall, and the corn froze out. On the whole it's been a very good year though, and we thank you for being part of it! We really appreciate your commitment to our farm! Your support at the beginning of the season is vital for a successful growing season. Thanks again, and have a great Thanksgiving weekend!

We enjoy eating, and we enjoy growing stuff. So, what could be more natural than to grow food?

Introducing us and our family: We are Trent and Lois Loewen. We have 7 active, growing children. We have 3 farm dogs, a happy population of cats, and a few laying hens. Our house looks 'lived in', and our yard looks 'used'. It is, too!

I, Lois, have grown a home garden most of the years since 2004, and have enjoyed cooking and preserving many vegetables and fruits. Our family has always been an important part of what we're doing, so they'd spend lots of time in the garden, too. Trent has always been interested in plants and growing, so we've dreamed, and wondered how it could work to grow for market.

In January of 2015, a seed catalog inspired me, and I started dreaming of garden, and dirt! It didn't take long until Trent was also enthused, and planning started! Vegetables, fruit, chickens, and turkeys... It all looked wonderful. We started growing with the large garden we already had, but changed to a more intensive bed system, allowing us to grow much more in our space. We were glad to have happy customers, and have enjoyed serving them.

We have since added more garden space, and it's fun to let our children choose a crop or plants that they will try growing. Some of they're choices have been pumpkins, edible squash, gourds, and tomatoes. We chose to quit doing chickens, for now, so we could put more into vegetables.

We also built a greenhouse in 2017, and we really enjoy growing with it! We are interested in working with extending our growing season in spring, and also in fall. For some crops the greenhouse will be helpful with that.

It is important to us to have delicious, wholesome food for our family, and we want to share that with our community, too.

Although not certified organic, we strive to grow our produce without the use of synthetic chemicals, and in a way that is sustainable and beneficial to the land.

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