www.newfarmer.ca is an offshoot of Thompson Small Farm. It is our educational wing. We will be putting muc hof our energies into this project for 2012. We will not be operating a CSA this year but will be selling our eggs and fresh produce at the Sunnyside Farmers Market. Check out the new site for [...]
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26 May
Okay, I think we’ve figured this out!
I think we’ve figured this out now to make it usable for those who stumble accross this blog. I started out posting all of our past newsletter in what I believe is now the wrong section so I have done some reorganizing and will get the archived newsletters onto the new newsletter tab and keep [...]
25 May
Newsletter #2011-3. April, Early May.
Hello everyone – Spring has finally and definitively arrived here. It has been a couple of weeks now since we had a night frost, it seems, and the snow is at last gone from all but the shadiest places. The chickadees (black capped’s and boreal’s) and juncos (slate-coloured and Oregon’s) at the feeder have been [...]
12 May
Newsletter #2011-2. March 2011
Hello everyone – As I believe we’ve relayed by now, we are in the throes of moving to a new location, on the eastern periphery of the loosely defined settlement of Bergen. The move itself has been protracted by the freakish spring. Certainly we have never seen an April 3 that looked like this [...]
12 May
Newsletter 2011-1. January 2011
Hello everyone! Hope you’re all wintering well. Seems like a hard one, so far. Lots of below normal temperatures and not much sun, eh? Things are good here. The chickens are coming back on laying after the usual solstice low, and there hasn’t been a lot of mortality so far (there’s always winter mortality [...]
12 May
Newsletter 2010-5 October 2010
I went back to see the a man about a cow – same man, same cow. The man, John, an elderly Hutterite, no longer on the colony. (I had originally been told by another that he was a Mennonite, but this is apparently incorrect.) The cow – Prickle – was back with him, visiting a [...]
12 May
Newsletter 2010 – 4 August 2010
Whilst watering the garden the other day, a peaceful and protracted process that leaves lots of room for contemplation, I looked down at a kale bed and suddenly felt I was in a light plane over the African Veldt. The kale were like little acacia trees over the tawny scrub. Friedrich from that part [...]
12 May
Newsletter 2010-2 June 2010
I am writing this newsletter ahead of time as I am sure you are wondering what is going on. Take heart. I am always wondering what is going on. Just when I think I have a pretty good idea, something else seems to be taking place. Now that we finally have some heat, it is [...]
12 May
Newsletter #2010-1… April and May 2010
Now it’s late April. The wind turns like the second hand on a clock marking the days. When it hits twelve o’clock, look out. I type this as yet another blast rages out of the north. The old timers say that while Alberta was always unpredictable, it has of late become something unknown. North [...]
12 May
Newsletter #11 – September 2009
Hello All! So the season is over, just like that. First things put first, we will apologize for the hoped-for sixteen weeks being twelve not insofar as this was under our control and we failed, but rather for being so optimistic at the beginning that we could get sixteen weeks out of the season. It [...]
