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Farm Happenings at Wandering Shovel Farm
Farm Happenings for August 2, 2023
This is what's new for this week:
Cauliflower
Shelling peas
Parsley
Shishito peppers
Lots of broccoli again this week, also basil! We're harvesting the first of the cauliflower this week and a few purple cabbage. The shishito peppers are new for us, never grown them before. They're a Japanese fry1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 26, 2023
This is what's new for this week:
Broccoli
Cabbage
Celery
Heirloom tomatoes
Arugula
Baby kale
Cucumbers. They are starting to pick up again although there's still not very many. We had a really bad spider mite infestation that almost destroyed the cukes, but they're recovering from that. The next1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 19, 2023
This is an awesome time of year! Everything is really starting to produce!
Salad turnips are here. Have you had them? If you have, you know you want them. If you haven't, you gotta try them! They're a sweet, mild turnip, perfect for snacking on or in a veggie platter. Even if you don't like turnips1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 12, 2023
We had an awesome Open House here on Saturday! We really enjoyed everyone who came out for that! It's been a busy week, so please check back on Monday morning as I'll update the quantities available.
Your box will be built automatically with only produce in it but everything else is available to sw1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 5, 2023
Happy Canada Day! We’ve all been looking forward to this first week of Farm Shares. It’s been an amazing start to the season already! May was so warm that everything got off to a great start. We didn’t lose many days to bad weather, and with Sara home all the time we’ve mana1 read more »
About the farm
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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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.