Asparagus Crowns

For anyone wishing to plant their own patch of asparagus, we now have a few Jersey Supreme Aspragus crowns available at our farm store, Downtown Market on 104th in Edmonton and the Calgary Farmers Market. We will only have them for a couple of weeks. ,

Asparagus

We have just started picking yesterday and it tastes DELICIOUS!!!

Asparagus is starting to grow

Our granddaughters are thrilled to find the first spear of asparagus poking out of the ground. We walked over our field and found enough delicious little spears to BBQ for supper. As long as we do not get any frost, we will be picking within a few days.

Seeding Garden Peas

Finally, we were able to find a small dry area in our field and get the first planting of peas planted the other day. This is the latest we have ever got started planting peas since 1986 when we first started growing them on a field scale. Please note the snow on the background. I was really suprised when I looked at the planted peas today and they have already started to sprout. They are going to come fast!! Can hardly wait for that first tiny baby pea!!

Farm Store now closed for the season

With the colder weather now happening we will be closing our farm store this weekend. For the last couple of weeks we have not had the preserves out on the shelves as they could freeze during the nights.
We are still open by appintment for preserves or beef at anytime so just call and we can arrange a time. 403-227-2443

Asparagus Fern

We are so very pleased that we made the decision to stop picking our asparagus field early this year. The growth of fern that has come up since we stopped picking is amazing, the best we have seen for several years. This means that the crowns are now very healthy and busy storing energy so that they will produce a great crop next year.

Now Picking Peas

July 15. Peas love cool weather and our pea crop is looking fantastic. We have just started picking our delicious, sweet garden peas. We should now have peas at our farm store right through until the first frost in the fall. Pictured here is our granddaughter showing off her peas. Our two granddaughters love to go out to the pea field with us so they can pick and eat peas right off the vines.