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Hello Members!
This week has whizzed by without much ado. Robin went on vacation last weekend, to a good friends wedding, where he was photographer du jour, and came back with a sore belly. Cake! Jess held the fort through a miserable Sunday market, with far more rain than customers. With the support of Danny and Kelly she made it, though from all accounts it wasn’t pretty.
Jess is back in full force after narrowly surviving her first Art Vernissage last week at Zen Kitchen, which we miserably failed at putting in the newsletter last week. In [...]
Manure Mania!
It has been a busy week at Roots and Shoots. Last Saturday, we went to the new Kanata market to sell our veggies. The Kanata market-goers were very appreciative of our farm offering easy access to local, organic vegetables to the Kanata community. Back on the farm, the plants are growing beautifully, but so are the weeds, especially Lambs Quarter. This plant that looks so cute and innocent in the spring with its tender edible leaves is now attempting to strangle the winter squash plants with their lanky stems and rapidly developing seed pods. [...]
Dear CSA members:
Well, after another long morning of harvest, we are ready to send some beautiful produce out into the world for your consumption. In the news this week, Danny had a birthday. To reward his hard work and positive demeanour, we got him his very own ipod, which one of our friends didnt want anymore because he got a better one. Now Danny will not converse with us because he is too busy listening to Richard Simmons latest aerobics podcast. Everyone wins!
We found some manure. In face we found loads and loads of it, [...]
Hello all:
Well, as well as being in the limelight all week long, we have been managing to do a little weeding, irrigation, harvest, and vegetable distribution. I am at the moment sitting on the porch of Bakker’s General Store, taking advantage of the only reliable internet in the neighborhood, all to the sweet sounds of Mitch Owens Drive. From here I can see the nice booth that we’ve set up, and Jess is busy dolling out the CSA shares, and providing fresh veg to passers-by as well. Danny has informed us that the MEC dropoff [...]
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