Last market of the season!

Hello everyone,

Just a quick note to let you know this is going to be our last week for a little while at the Truro Farmers Market. I’m getting too pregnant to pick lettuce, and we need a break to get ready for the baby. We’ll really miss doing market every week and hope to be back in August/September for a week or two with tomatoes and blackberries. You’ll see us shopping there, anyway!

This week, we will have salad mix – spicy and original, swiss chard, mustard greens, arugula, stir-fry mix, green onions, and edible flowers. 

Roxanne and Jamey

Market number 7

Hey folks,

It’s looking like a tasty harvest of greens and veggies at the market this week. 

We’ll have the original and spicy salad mix, green onions, edible flowers, some tasty red russian kale or swiss chard, the last radishes, garlic scapes and…. mmmm peas! 

We will have some tasty snow peas – perfect for stirfry – or wonderful sugar snap peas. 

There’s been lots going on around the garden, we’ll catch you up with a photo post this week. The groundhog, sadly, disappeared before I could photograph him. 

See you Saturday,

Roxanne

Outsmarting chickens

Stories featuring strawberry patches and free roaming hens don’t often have a happy ending. Chickens love ripe strawberries. They will leave unripe ones alone. They can be incredibly efficient, wiping out a patch in minutes, They can be persistent, dropping by the patch a few times a day, even on the way back to the barn at night. After losing a few of the early berries we finally covered the plants with row cover. There aren’t many blossoms left, and most of the fruit has set. Evil birds.

Strange. When you google “strawberries” and “chicken” you get lots of recipes.

SBG in East Coast Living Magazine

On newstands now is a lifestyle magazine called East Coast Living.  Salad Bowl Gardens and our friends at Local Source Market were profiled for a really great article on Heirloom tomatoes.  mmmm… getting hungry just thinking about them.   The article isn’t online, but the site is http://www.eastcoastlivingmagazine.ca/