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Farm Happenings at Wandering Shovel Farm
Farm Happenings for September 14, 2022
Hi everyone! We're well into September and the days are starting to have a hint of fall. Most of our crew has gone back to school so we have been working hard to get everything done in the daylight.
Last weekend we had a small disaster when someone forgot to open the greenhouse vents and it got way1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 7, 2022
We have corn this week! We should have it next week too, as long as we don't get frost. The variety we grow is Vision which, in our opinion, is the the best you can get. I'll update the quantity available on Monday, so check back Monday evening if you want more. Also new this week is an interesting1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 31, 2022
I hope you're all enjoying summer as much as we are! We took time for a short but very enjoyable camping trip last weekend at Waskesiu Lake. We're busy, the days are full, but it's all good! With the hot weather we’ve been having, it’s hard to remember that summer will be over soon.
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Farm Happenings for August 24, 2022
It’s summer this week! We’ve been enjoying the warm weather, eating outside and going camping on the weekend. This picture is just for interest; 6 varieties, 5 different colours of potatoes. I dug some of our specialty potatoes to see how they are doing, but they still need to grow some1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 17, 2022
It's for good reason that Saskatchewan is called "Land of living skies"! I love watching the changing colors and textures of the sky while working in the field, especially when a storm is coming. The bottom right picture shows the edge of a storm system that just missed us.
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Farm Happenings for August 10, 2022
Hello from the farm! Hope you all had a great week! On the harvest list this week is cauliflower, celery, lots of salad turnips, saskatoons (from Andrea at Leoville), large Copenhagen cabbage, and some large kohlrabi. A new local product we just got in is Whole Grain Mustard from The Prairie Momma,1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 3, 2022
This is the week for salad turnips! We finally got an awesome crop of them this week! Also on the list is beets, carrots, the last broccoli til later in fall, saskatoons (from Andrea at Leoville), snap peas and shelling peas. Check back on Monday evening as we update some quantities on Monday. 1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 27, 2022
It’s been a good growing week! It hasn’t rained for a week or two here so we’re starting to irrigate again. We finally have carrots ready, lots of broccoli, cabbage, and tomatoes. The peas are filling out so we’ll be picking snap peas this week for sure, and maybe shelling p1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 20, 2022
A few days of heat and sun have made quite a difference! New for this week are potatoes, Swiss chard, kale, kohlrabi, and zucchini. The tomatoes are just starting to ripen and the carrots should be ready next week. Also coming soon are broccoli, cabbage, snap peas, and garlic scapes. Thank you for1 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.