We’re so excited to be beginning again on the Dieppe Market after our winter break – beginning this Saturday (8 am to 1 pm). We’ll be exterior in our regular season spot.
Seeing pleasant faces is the perfect half!
What are we bringing this week?
Veggies
We’ll be harvesting lovely recent greens and spherical pink radishes that had been sown into the sector again in early April. They’ve been babied with covers all through the various climate circumstances this spring.
We’re additionally harvesting some specialties that solely the spring brings: darkish inexperienced nettles, Egyptian inexperienced onions, the distinctive herb lovage. Right now of 12 months, most of our meals include at the very least certainly one of these delights, if not all. We actually get pleasure from every season’s fleeting specialties as a lot as we will.
We even have some storage veggies that we’ve taken a whole lot of care to maintain recent and crisp all through the winter, together with rainbow carrots, purple, white, & pink daikons, Black Spanish radishes, kohlrabi, cabbage, and celeriac.
Seedlings
That is the time of 12 months (for 4 fast weeks) that we now have seedlings on the market in your personal gardening. These seedlings are all natural, grown with natural seed, in natural potting combine, with natural amendments that we combine in ourselves to reinforce the well being slowly over the season for the crops (together with natural alfalfa meal, which is essential as common alfalfa meal can come from GMO alfalfa crops grown in Japanese Canada).
Whereas I do my greatest to develop the seedlings out as evenly as potential for every of the 4 weeks we’re promoting them, invariably there are some totally different crops out there (or now not out there) every week as they’re on the point of be bought or bought out.
This 12 months, we’ve received essentially the most tomato seedling varieties we’ve ever had: round 30 totally different varieties! This consists of cherry tomatoes (from small currant varieties to grapes to bigger fill-your-mouth cherries), of varied colors (pink, yellow, orange, pink, purple/black). Additionally a choice of medium-sized tomatoes of varied shapes, sizes, and colors. Slicing tomatoes of varied colors. And plum/paste tomatoes (additionally of varied sizes and colors) that you need to use to make your personal sauces, salsas, ketchup (one of many tomato varieties known as Heinz!), and so forth.
A number of the tomatoes are vining varieties (indeterminate) and can want staking (until you don’t thoughts the sprawling area they’ll take up), and a few are bush varieties (determinate). Of the bush varieties, there are some which might be significantly good for very small areas (like a pot on a patio).
Different vegetable seedlings embody: varied scorching pepper varieties, eggplant, Swiss chard, kale, cabbage, Egyptian onions (perennial), lettuce, Brussels sprouts, and celery.
Herb seedlings: basil (inexperienced, purple, Thai, lemon), chervil, summer time savory, parsley
Fruit seedlings: Incan berries, gooseberries (perennial), figs
Flower seedlings: Pink Hawaiian peonies(!) (perennial), calendula, strawflower, nasturtium
Seeds
We’ve packaged up numerous totally different seed packets this 12 months, greater than ever earlier than. These are all seeds you may nonetheless begin now (no extra onion, tomato, pepper or leek seeds, which ought to have been began by now). A few of them may have to attend a couple of weeks nonetheless when you’re planning on direct-sowing them in your backyard (relying in your website and your skill to guard them, we will nonetheless get frost at evening). We’ve received some planting directions on our web site, together with different gardening suggestions right here.
Vegetable Seeds embody: arugula, asian greens combine, kale, lettuce combine, cilantro, dill, carrots, beets, radish, peas (each snap and shelling), bush beans, watermelon, cantaloupe, winter squash, cucumber, and so forth.
Flower seeds embody: zinnias, sunflower, white lace flower (orlaya), calendula, love-in-a-mist nigella, candy peas, bupleurum, candy William, purple-flowering daucus, black magnificence poppy, lemon bergamot monarda, nasturtium.
Perennial seeds embody: Garlic chives, Blue False Indigo Baptisia, Lupines.
Uncooked Honey
From the 12 hives who stay on the farm. These honeybees get their choose from such a variety of flowers right here, together with blooms from: our cut-flowers, fruiting greens, greens who don’t usually flower earlier than harvest however that we go away to flower for the seed crop (like arugula), perennial fruit, hedgerows, wild areas on the farm, cowl crops when left to flower, so-called weeds when left to flower (like dandelions). It’s all the time so enjoyable seeing what flowers the honeybees are targeted on in any given day or week. And the range actually makes the honey so distinctive.
In Different Farm Information…..
This week, we’re choosing up child chicks! It’s been fairly a couple of years since we’ve raised chickens, having switched to geese for a time, after which having no birds over the pandemic (worrying that it might be a problem to get natural feed which isn’t as simply accessible). Really we drove over to PEI earlier this week for two causes. One was to select up some natural feed from Barnyard Organics for our chicks (starter and grower blends) as not one of the feed shops round us are carrying it in the mean time.
The twond purpose was to go to the Dexter Cattle Firm, an natural, grass-fed Dexter cattle farm. This go to was the following step to maneuver alongside our “household cow” dream. The farm sells out shortly of heifers (they’re bought out for 2023 and nearly bought out for 2024) so we wanted to go to and make plans for reserving a younger cow(s) for ourselves. It was a really inspiring go to and the cows had such a peaceable vitality. It was all very thrilling PLUS the infant calves who had simply been born had been simply so good and lovely (as infants tend to be).
Talking of infants, the mama bears whose territory we stay in are transferring round with their babes, harvesting dandelion greens and grasses for his or her spring diet. One mama has 3 new cubs, whereas the opposite has two 1-year-olds.
I believe that’s about it for greater information from the farm. Many of the information we share with one another tends in the direction of issues like, “I noticed a hummingbird pollinating the Haskap flowers,” “The Mayapples survived within the woodland planting,” “I simply counted 16 frogs as I handed the pond.”
I hope your spring season has additionally been full of Information like this which will extra precisely be referred to as Noticings.
Maybe this weekend’s Market will convey extra!
