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 have been sown into the sphere again in early April. They’ve been babied with covers all through the various climate situations 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 no less than one in all these delights, if not all. We actually take pleasure in every season’s fleeting specialties as a lot as we are able to.
We even have some storage veggies that we’ve taken a variety 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 to 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 boost the well being slowly over the season for the vegetation (together with natural alfalfa meal, which is vital as common alfalfa meal can come from GMO alfalfa vegetation grown in Jap Canada).
Whereas I do my finest to develop the seedlings out as evenly as doable for every of the 4 weeks we’re promoting them, invariably there are some totally different vegetation obtainable (or not obtainable) every week as they’re on the point of be offered or offered out.
This 12 months, we’ve acquired probably the most tomato seedling varieties we’ve ever had: round 30 totally different varieties! This contains cherry tomatoes (from small currant sorts 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 hues. Slicing tomatoes of varied colors. And plum/paste tomatoes (additionally of varied sizes and hues) that you need to use to make your individual sauces, salsas, ketchup (one of many tomato varieties is named Heinz!), and so forth.
Among the tomatoes are vining sorts (indeterminate) and can want staking (until you don’t thoughts the sprawling house they’ll take up), and a few are bush sorts (determinate). Of the bush sorts, there are some which are notably good for very small areas (like a pot on a patio).
Different vegetable seedlings embody: numerous scorching pepper sorts, 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 just a few weeks nonetheless for those who’re planning on direct-sowing them in your backyard (relying in your web site and your capacity to guard them, we are able to nonetheless get frost at night time). We’ve acquired some planting directions on our web site, together with different gardening ideas 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 dwell on the farm. These honeybees get their decide from such a range 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 centered on in any given day or week. And the range actually makes the honey so distinctive.
In Different Farm Information…..
This week, we’re selecting up child chicks! It’s been fairly just a few years since we’ve raised chickens, having switched to geese for a time, after which having no birds over the pandemic (caring that it might be a problem to get natural feed which isn’t as simply accessible). Truly we drove over to PEI earlier this week for two causes. One was to choose 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 meanwhile.
The twond motive 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 offered out for 2023 and virtually offered 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 power. It was all very thrilling PLUS the newborn calves who had simply been born have been simply so excellent and lovable (as infants tend to be).
Talking of infants, the mama bears whose territory we dwell 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 feel that’s about it for larger information from the farm. Many of the information we share with one another tends in 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 crammed with Information like this which will extra precisely be known as Noticings.
Maybe this weekend’s Market will convey extra!
