Meet Parsnip – she’s rainy days, chunky cardigans and staying put. Life lesson: leave parsnips in the ground over winter. A cold rain makes slow little streams on the window. Parsnip sits at the kitchen table with a steaming toddy, a dog-eared paperback, a loose ball of chunky knitting. She pulls her oatmeal cardigan closed and adds honey then more …
Inspiration from Farmer Tam It’s spring! We invite you become a part of our farm-ily again this season. We look forward to munching on a handful of peas in the gardens with you, sampling some sorrel, pull a few weeds, or just lingering to chat over a bag of veggies. It’s time to start the growing again; time to connect again! …
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 …
Last year’s Christmas party was fine – same as the year before that… and the year before that one too. This year, throw your company holiday party somewhere totally new. Bring the crew and their families to Prairie Gardens, eat home cooking, make crafts with the kids, ride the polar express train and see a whole new fun side to …
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 …
