Blog — Elmridge Farm

A Word From The Farmer

Several weeks ago I had a question about our foreign professional help.  I have included both the question and my reply here followed by an explanation/ description of how we hire and employ our international professionals. Questio

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April 15th, 2021 I was invited as a panelist/speaker for a Climate Change Adaptation session. The intent of the organizers was to talk about the physical adaptations of climate change in agriculture but this is what they got because if

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It feels like we are finally getting something done on the farm with five of our foreign professionals now working 50-60 hours a week (and if they get any less hours they aren’t happy). Yet we are now behind on the season. If you have rea

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We are very much relieved and happy that three of our foreign professionals have just been released from quarantine and are doing what they do best; getting things done! They are Pascual, who has been with us enough years that I’ve lost c

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Continuing from two weeks ago. I touched on two of the three big food production costs that are a result of our social values; labor in the form of a decent wage, living conditions, and safe working conditions and environment in an attemp

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A Word From The FarmerGuest UserFebruary 18, 2021

So it looks like maybe we haven’t quite had enough global warming to escape the occasional bout of winter weather. Although it seems to have started late the last number of years and then, unfortunately, lingered longer into the spring. O

A Word From The FarmerGuest UserFebruary 11, 2021

For myself January has always meant the most time spent in the office planning and doing my coerced volunteer work for the government (although it would be nice if a bureaucrat somewhere would wake up and realize they are sucking the life

A Word From The FarmerGuest UserJanuary 21, 2021

January 14th, 2021 First of all; what we are up to. Our online store is still open and doing business. Over Christmas it worked out that we delivered on several Wednesdays. From here on we will be delivering to the Forum parking lot o

A Word From The FarmerGuest UserJanuary 14, 2021

December 17th, 2020 We are officially done messing about in the fields for 2020! Our final planting of carrots sized up enough that we were able to run the machine harvester through and get most of them. It was a surprise to me because

A Word From The FarmerGuest UserDecember 17, 2020

November 26th, 2020 Market update before I get to this weeks notes.... The Forum Market is closed and Seaport is running at 100 customers at a time. Online orders will be available for pick up at both locations, make sure you select the

A Word From The FarmerGuest UserNovember 26, 2020

November 19th, 2020 The end of the season is finally coming into view. We only have a few crops left in the field that we will gather as the weather closes in on us. Along with the change in season is the departure of the lifeline that k

A Word From The FarmerGuest UserNovember 19, 2020

I don’t think that even a farmer could complain about this week's weather in good conscience…..well, maybe I shouldn’t under estimate our abilities as an industry…..  I, for one, loved it!   In my opinion It could stay this

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First; my apologies for missing last week’s “blurb”. We are in full swing trying to get all of our beets and carrots harvested and put away for the winter and I realized on Friday that I forgot something….

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October 22nd, 2020

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October 14th, 2020 Thanksgiving has come and gone and we are on the downhill slide to the end of our cropping season! For us Thanks Giving has always marked a change of pace as the summer crops give up or freeze out and the pace slows a

A Word From The FarmerGuest UserOctober 14, 2020

October 9th, 2020 Thanksgiving is upon us and I think that as Canadians, Maritimers and Nova Scotians we can all agree that the pandemic has driven home how great it is to live where we do. Nova Scotia is one of the few places in the wor

A Word From The FarmerGuest UserOctober 9, 2020

September 24th, 2020 Since I got such a great response last week....here we are; another week older and maybe just the tiniest bit wiser (or, in my case, more cynical).

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