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A Word From The FarmerGreg GerritsFebruary 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 FarmerGreg GerritsFebruary 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 FarmerGreg GerritsJanuary 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 FarmerGreg GerritsJanuary 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 FarmerGreg GerritsDecember 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 FarmerGreg GerritsNovember 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 FarmerGreg GerritsNovember 19, 2020

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….

A Word From The FarmerGreg GerritsNovember 5, 2020

October 22nd, 2020

A Word From The FarmerGreg GerritsOctober 22, 2020

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 FarmerGreg GerritsOctober 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 FarmerGreg GerritsOctober 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).

A Word From The FarmerGreg GerritsSeptember 24, 2020