Gardening

Hi!! Our garden is the star of the show this summer. We have a multi-purpose garden, supplying our livestock, our clients and us with bountiful produce. What a journey we have been on to get here, our thumbs becoming green over time.

Our garden ethos is to focus on storable crops that are consumed on a day-to-day basis. We don't eat radishes so we don't grow radishes, we don't eat a lot of peppers so we don't grow a lot of peppers; you get the drift. We tend towards the veggies and fruit that we normally buy at the grocery store on a weekly basis then try to grow those and see how it goes.

We chose garlic as an investment piece in our garden because of the preservative qualities garlic has. We normally harvest our garlic in July and air dry it in the barn for a few weeks before it's cured enough to make available to our clients. Garlic cured and stored in the right way can last an entire year. In our kitchen, it's more likely we will run out before it goes bad. We planted our 2026 garlic crop in the old chicken yard that has an abundance of aged manure worked in to create big bulbs of garlic. We don't use sprays or anything like that on our garlic, just chicken manure tilled into the ground and our own seed garlic grown on the farm. Garlic is planted in October and over winters in the ground, sprouts out with garlic scapes in the late spring/early summer (which we dehydrate to make the BEST chicken & egg seasoning salt), then produce nice garlic bulbs in the middle of the summer.

We love growing fruits and veggies for our livestock in addition to what we would normally buy from the grocery store. The chickens favourite thing to eat in the cold months is pumpkin - it keeps them producing an above average amount of eggs and gives them something fun to peck at in their coop when the days are short and they don't have much fun being outside. Stone eats pumpkin every day as part of her primal diet, alongside cucumbers, watermelon, and any berries she can scrounge up on our walks in the summer.

We are working to grow commonly consumed household veggies this year for produce boxes that our clients will enjoy in the summer, and garlic that can be enjoyed year round. Garlic, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, lettuce and basic household veggies will be our focus for this year, alongside our pumpkins and squash.

What would you like to see grown in our garden for next year?