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CSA family news
Oh boy, I can’t believe it’s fall already – the summer’s gone so fast. So CSA families, one more month of goodies, then pumpkins and Halloween. We sure are going to miss our weekly trips to the farm....
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Fall-o-ween Family Festival, Sep 21–22
Visit the farm Sep 21–22 for our annual fall family festival – Fall-o-ween. Pick a pumpkin, run the enormous 4-in-1 corn maze and then pop by the concession for chili and pumpkin pie. We’ll have magic...
View ArticleBaby Corn Succotash
Summer has pretty much wound down, but it’s prime time for the vegetables at our CSA. One of our favourite ways to eat them is to just sauté them all together. This is a succotash. Baby corn is a...
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Sturgeon County Bounty, Sep 28
It’s a crisp fall day on the farm, the sky is big and blue, red and yellow leaves tremble and fall and all around you are round fat orange pumpkins. Now add gourmet locally-grown food, pumpkin picking...
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CSA wrap-up: Lessons in sharing
We’ve been talking a lot to our three-year-old about sharing, so it’s been on my mind. We tell him that it’s ok to share because once his friend takes a turn, he’ll get his toy back. But that’s not...
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Prairie Gardens pumpkin cannon
Fire in the hole! It’s your turn to fire the pumpkin cannon. You dig out four shiny gold and silver dubloons and hand them over to the old salty dog in the long braids and buccaneer hat. He’ll pick out...
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Pick your pumpkin
Hooray – it’s pumpkin season! Use them for jack-o-lanterns, Thanksgiving decoration or eat them in curries, breads and my favourite, sweet rich pumpkin pie! Tam was recently on Edmonton’s CTV Morning...
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Build your own scarecrow
We built our own scarecrow at Prairie Gardens’ Haunted Pumpkin Festival this weekend and it was a hoot. Also, now I have a cool hand made Halloweeny lawn decoration. So here’s how to build your own...
View ArticleAll about winter squash
It’s bumpy, it’s blue (or deep green and maybe stripy) and it’s delicious – but you might never have dared to cook it up before now. Here are our tips for how to care and prepare Prairie Gardens winter...
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Best company party ever
Last year’s Christmas party was fine – same as the year before that… and the year before that one too. This year, throw your company holiday party somewhere totally new. Bring the crew and their...
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Starting within – a new CSA season
Inspiration from Farmer Tam It’s spring! We invite you become a part of our farm-ily again this season. We look forward to munching on a handful of peas in the gardens with you, sampling some sorrel,...
View ArticleMeet your vegetables: Parsnip
Meet Parsnip – she’s rainy days, chunky cardigans and staying put. Life lesson: leave parsnips in the ground over winter. A cold rain makes slow little streams on the window. Parsnip sits at the...
View ArticleMeet your vegetables: What Sage knows
Every vegetable has a story. Meet Sage – a wandering cowboy who can’t bear wet feet and sings songs to his horse by the moonlight. Life lesson: follow your heart and keep your toes dry. Oh give me a...
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Testimonial – Fallen in Love with the Farm
We have fallen in love with your farm you folks have done a wonderful job out there. My little guy is just over a year old, he has had so much fun! The animals are the highlight for him. We have been...
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How to sprout everything
Watch life grow Big and little kids love watching seeds and beans grow – plus they are delicious and super nutritious. You can buy sprouting seeds like red clover, alfalfa and fenugreek or use a huge...
View ArticleMeet your vegetables: Broccoli
Will Broccoli be there? Meet Broccoli – chilling in the raw with his crudité entourage or soaking in a hot tub of cheese and rice, he’s delighted just to be here. Life lesson: bring Broccoli to every...
View ArticleCSA good food box for June 19
Good food box pick up Thursday, June 19 or Sunday, June 22 Hey CSA families – come get your next good food box from the city pick up location at RGE RD – 123 St & 106 Ave – on Thursday, June 19...
View ArticleSpring salad with black currant vinaigrette
This combination is full of flavors – sorrel provides a lemony kick Fresh spring greens come and go so quickly in the garden! We seeded the spinach and early lettuce the last week of April this season....
View ArticleFeta, tofu and white Lisbon onion omelette
Enjoy these spring onions Even the seeds in their flower heads add quite a zesty onion zap! It was a cool late spring this season! The Western Producer (a farming newspaper) claims that we have moved...
View ArticleCreamy sorrel soup
More than anything else I can think of, sorrel falls straight between herbs and greens Use it as a leafy herb – like parsley, basil or mint – chopping it up to use in salsa verdes, dressings or...
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