Frosty Mornings = Delicious Winter Vegetables! Although we do prefer the warmer weather with its vine ripened Tomatoes, juicy Cucumbers, Green Beans and Zucchini’s, Winter also provides its own unique, seasonal delights. Essentially anything that is not killed by a frost will be sweetened by its chilling effects. This makes Winter the best time to […]

Hello Rainbow OMGers, As you can see in the featured photo we are now supplying an abundant variety of Locally Grown, Organic Vegetables to our community. We are proud of the quality of vegetables we are producing and look forward to our output scaling up as our soils re-invigorate over time. We have been to

Hello Rainbow OMGers, What a glorious week of Winter sunshine, our baby seedlings have all put on noticeable growth this week with the return of the Sun. We have ordered all our new seeds for next Summer and will get the first round of them started this month in our Greenhouse. We are hoping to

Hello Rainbow OMGers, We have experienced our first general, light frost across the entire farm. As stated last week, we have only just entered the beginning of Winter so a frost is to be expected and celebrated. We celebrate frost as it imparts extra sweetness into all vegetables that is doesn’t kill. We find the

Hello Rainbow OMGers, Happy Winter Solstice! We have just experienced the shortest day of the year which means Winter is here. Winter begins after the Solstice, not the beginning of June which is an arbitrary date, selected by bureaucrats with no knowledge of the Seasons and their interactions with plants, animals and the soil. In

Hello Rainbow OMGers, WE HAVE STRUCK GOLD! With current market prices this enormous Iceberg Lettuce should be enough to pay off our mortgage 🙂 But on a serious note we would like to remind everyone that we have not raised our prices on any of our produce this year. Being a local producer allows us

Hello Rainbow OMGers, We have had our first frost for the year. It was light and only on some of our woodchip paths but the cold is here and settled in for the next few months.  Eating seasonally allows us to look forward to the cold as it brings extra sweetness to our Spinach, Lettuce,

Hello Rainbow OMGers, This week appears to be telling us that Winter has come early this year. In light of this we decided it was time to finally close in the Greenhouse. My uncle was gracious enough to gift us with a lot of second-hand timber and roof metal so we put the timber to

Hello Rainbow OMGers, What a glorious week of Autumn sunshine we have just experienced. As I type I see evidence of more rain approaching from the west, hopefully we will receive some good rain this afternoon.   Just a quick reminder that we are suspending CSA Sales until after Winter. All current CSA subscriptions will

Hello Rainbow OMGers, Another week of cool and overcast weather has passed and plant growth in the Market Garden is slowing down with the shorter days. We can and always will grow right through Winter, we do however observe much slower growth in all plants this time of year. This week we planted flowers, more