Enjoy these spring onions Even the seeds in their flower heads add quite a zesty onion zap! It was a cool late spring this season! The Western Producer (a farming newspaper) claims that we have moved into a new 30-year cycle that involves the “Pacific Oscillation”. Cool and wet springs for the next 30 years. Sigh. I said to my …
This combination is full of flavors – sorrel provides a lemony kick Fresh spring greens come and go so quickly in the garden! We seeded the spinach and early lettuce the last week of April this season. The garden was still so wet, we almost got the tractor stuck! But having greens to harvest in late June and early July …
Good food box pick up Thursday, June 19 or Sunday, June 22 Hey CSA families – come get your next good food box from the city pick up location at RGE RD – 123 St & 106 Ave – on Thursday, June 19 between 5–7 pm. Or come to the farm on Sunday, June 22 between noon and 6 pm. …
Will Broccoli be there? Meet Broccoli – chilling in the raw with his crudité entourage or soaking in a hot tub of cheese and rice, he’s delighted just to be here. Life lesson: bring Broccoli to every party. You’ll miss him when he’s not there. Funky, fun and the life of the party You can take this guy anywhere – …
Watch life grow Big and little kids love watching seeds and beans grow – plus they are delicious and super nutritious. You can buy sprouting seeds like red clover, alfalfa and fenugreek or use a huge variety of beans and lentils – nothing bigger than a chick pea though and never use kidney beans. Here’s how to sprout almost anything in five …
Every vegetable has a story. Meet Sage – a wandering cowboy who can’t bear wet feet and sings songs to his horse by the moonlight. Life lesson: follow your heart and keep your toes dry. Oh give me a home In the light sandy loam On a hill where the rain drains away Give me full sun at noon and …
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 …
