Virginie and Sophia transplanting onions
Thank you to all members who have signed up to the Local Food Box program. The great news is that over 80% of 2013 members are returning customers while the program is also attracting new members whom we look forward to meet. That being said, because we increased our numbers this year, we still have veggie and meat boxes available. If you are already a member, please help us by telling friends and family about the box program, and if you are a potential member, now is the time to sign-up by filling in this registration form!
It is hard to believe we are already 3 weeks away from the beginning of the Local Food Box Program. Then again,
Garry (Alex’s father) and Larry (friend and neighbor) save the day digging out the busted water line
most of the Wind Whipped Farm garden is planted and thriving with the warm weather. This week we will also be receiving our brand new BCS walking tractor along with a flail mower, a power harrow and a bed shaper. Also, our new, bigger greenhouse will hopefully be erected this week (severing our main water line while pounding in a corner ground post has somewhat delayed the process…oops).
Stillmeadow Farm and Parry Bay Sheep Farm have also benefitted from the good weather. The wheat crop is growing well however the early heat has caused grass in the pastures to start to head (go to seed) earlier than normal. Pigs, fifty-five of them to be precise, have been let out of the barn onto one and a half acre of pasture.
Happy pigs on spring pasture
At Winter Creek Farm, the laying hens are eying the tender green shoots of Marie’s Christmas trees.
It is spring out here in Metchosin: we’re farming and you are about to feast. The first box pick-up dates and time, depending on the location box members have requested, are the following:
- Monday June 10th, from 5 to 6PM, at the Cook Street Village Activity Centre: 380 Cook Street
- Wednesday June 12th, from 5 to 6PM, at the Victoria West Community Center: 521 Craigflower Rd
- Friday June 14th, from 4 to 5PM, at Wind Whipped Farm: 4645 B William Head Road.
We are still working on securing a second egg supplier, we will get in touch with box members who expressed an interest in a weekly dozen a.s.a.p. All box members can also expect to hear from us a few days from their first pick-up. In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Green manure: On the right is Wind Whipped Farm’s pea-vetch-winter wheat cover crop about to get turned into the soil.
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