It’s bumpy, it’s blue (or deep green and maybe stripy) and it’s delicious – but you might never have dared to cook it up before now. Here are our tips for how to care and prepare Prairie Gardens winter squash. You can find all these varieties in our indoor pumpkin patch – open daily 2:30–4:30 weekdays and 9–6 weekends until …
We built our own scarecrow at Prairie Gardens’ Haunted Pumpkin Festival this weekend and it was a hoot. Also, now I have a cool hand made Halloweeny lawn decoration. So here’s how to build your own scarecrow in three easy steps. Step one: pick out clothes This actually took us the longest – going through the piles and piles of …
Hooray – it’s pumpkin season! Use them for jack-o-lanterns, Thanksgiving decoration or eat them in curries, breads and my favourite, sweet rich pumpkin pie! Tam was recently on Edmonton’s CTV Morning Live to show off Prairie Gardens’ huge variety of big, fat and knubbly pumpkins. Here are some of her tips for making the perfect pick. Pick Your Own Pumpkins …
Fire in the hole! It’s your turn to fire the pumpkin cannon. You dig out four shiny gold and silver dubloons and hand them over to the old salty dog in the long braids and buccaneer hat. He’ll pick out a knobby crooked old pumpkin and load it up into the big loud air cannon. And even though he’s the …
We’ve been talking a lot to our three-year-old about sharing, so it’s been on my mind. We tell him that it’s ok to share because once his friend takes a turn, he’ll get his toy back. But that’s not exactly what I want him to know. It’s something more like: we share because we want our friends (and people we …
It’s a crisp fall day on the farm, the sky is big and blue, red and yellow leaves tremble and fall and all around you are round fat orange pumpkins. Now add gourmet locally-grown food, pumpkin picking and a spooky Halloween festival. That’s a fun day in the country – let’s break it down. Fill your tummy with food grown here …
Summer has pretty much wound down, but it’s prime time for the vegetables at our CSA. One of our favourite ways to eat them is to just sauté them all together. This is a succotash. Baby corn is a special surprise and is delicious in this dish. Whether it’s a textbook succotash or not, our vegetable sautés all tend to …
Oh boy, I can’t believe it’s fall already – the summer’s gone so fast. So CSA families, one more month of goodies, then pumpkins and Halloween. We sure are going to miss our weekly trips to the farm. Here are a few things Tam wants you to know about what’s coming up in the next few weeks. Please call the …
All about fresh beans Break one of these beans in half and listen for them to say their their name: Snap! They are best harvested young and tender and they’re entirely edible. Snap beans – also known as wax beans – have tender, slightly sweet, grassy-tasting pods and come in green, purple and yellow. Green beans are an excellent source …
Come down to Prairie Garden’s u-pick veggie patch to pick yourself the very freshest white potatoes and green and yellow zucchini – then head home and while the kids nap (you know, from all the running and fresh air) make this yummy and mild curry for dinner. Amazing facts about zucchini This vegetable is not only an antioxidant, but also, …
