Farm Happenings at Wooler Dale Farm
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Farm Happenings at Wooler Dale Farm

Farm Happenings for July 23, 2020

Posted on July 21st, 2020
Carrots! Finally! It's taken A LOT of irrigation to get these carrots to grow, but they're finally here!  This year has not only been challenging because of COVID-19 and thus learning an entirely new system to market & sell our produce, but this DROUGHT is EXHAUSTING! I'm hoping we get a r1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 16, 2020

Posted on July 15th, 2020
Tomato season is underway! YEAHH! Cherry tomatoes will start to make a regular appearance in your bags, along with BEANS!! Two crops that love the heat! We are just having to water, water, water! Our farm missed out on all of the thundershowers this weekend. We caught a tail end of one storm, getti1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 11, 2020

Posted on July 7th, 2020
New this week! Multi coloured beets! These aren't your grandmas beets! The heirloom orange "touchstone" beet is amazingly sweet & milder on the beety flavour, the pink "candycane" beet has pink and white rings inside & are truly beautiful & tasty, mixed in is the tradition purple beety1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 9, 2020

Posted on July 7th, 2020
New this week! Multi coloured beets! These aren't your grandmas beets! The heirloom orange "touchstone" beet is amazingly sweet & milder on the beety flavour, the pink "candycane" beet has pink and white rings inside & are truly beautiful & tasty, mixed in is the tradition purple beety1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 4, 2020

Posted on July 2nd, 2020
Things are heating up! Another heat wave is under way, & we're busy watering everyday! Trying to germinate our winter storage crops is going to be a challenge in this heat.  The fields are looking good otherwise, weeding is going great & cherry tomatoes from our hoop house are just sta1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 2, 2020

Posted on June 30th, 2020
Garlic Scapes ! If you love garlic, you'll these garlic scapes! They are the top of the garlic plant, and have to be harvested so they don't go to seed and take all the energy away from the bulb. Garlic scapes can be eaten raw, stir fried or made into pesto! I just got inspired by one of our member1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 27, 2020

Posted on June 24th, 2020
Asparagus season is now over, and strawberry season has started! This cooler weather is a nice treat for me and my newly transplanted seedlings. It gives them time to set some roots before the next heat wave. So much of my time & energy lately has been tied up watering seedlings & newly see1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 25, 2020

Posted on June 22nd, 2020
Strawberry Season is here!! Available this week as an extra, flats (6 quarts) of strawberries for $36! We've been busy picking strawberries & watering all our new plants in the ground! If you have your own little garden too, I'm sure you can see not much enjoys this heat and it's super dry! Hop1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 20, 2020

Posted on June 18th, 2020
Hooray! Strawberries are here finally! I waited to send out your box contents for this exact reason, I wanted to be sure strawberries would be ready. So we will be kicking off our strawberry season with your boxes!  We're winding down with asparagus season, so get your fill now! Most likely on1 read more »