Happy Bountiful Beltane!  We have moved our blog to our very own web-site Luckyfarm77.ca!  We missed the Spring Equinox blog due to heavy contractual deadlines, so we are updating you with some events going back to that time.

Every six months we open our amazing compost bin to find the naturally decomposed food scrap treasures from all our contributors over that time.  Many thanks to Malcolm Island Food Company, Jungle Jane, Robin, and Spencer for their kitchen scrap contributions!  This spring, we put 15 wheelbarrows of pure composted gold onto our gardens.

We are busy converting the second "ShelterLogic" tarp shed into a greenhouse.  We have already built the beds for the second greenhouse with rocks from our land and soil brought over by from nearby road building.   Thanks Art and Earl!  The ends of the second greenhouse will be framed in with cedar 1"x2" lumber and a transparent tarp will cover the metal arches, just like the first greenhouse.

The first greenhouse is already producing some wonderful salad greens, including cool weather-loving Asian greens such as Mizuna, Komatsuna, Pac Choi, and Giant Red Mustard.  Plus a variety of mixed lettuce greens.

Luckyfarm77 already has salad greens and kale available at the Sointula Resource Centre's Market Garden Stand regularly delivered on Wednesdays and Saturdays.  All this and more will be available for home delivery anywhere on Malcolm Island every Saturday.  No minimum order and no commitments necessary.  If you want to be on our email list, just send a note to hellofromluckyfarm77@gmail or phone 250-972-2077!

Also available at the Market Garden Stand are our locally saved organic seeds, including heirloom tomatoes, mixed lettuce, and wasabi mustard greens.  Here they are presented by the fluffy and talented Fuzzy the Cat.

We have an expanded double-decker light table, with some new LED lamps for all our plant starts.  Yellow cherry tomatoes, red Roma tomatoes, basil, Minnesota midget cantaloupes, parsley, celery, rosemary, oregano, and kale will be available for sale in May.  Contact hellofromluckyfarm@gmail.com or phone 250-973-2077 to make your reservation.  The plant starts are presented today by the sleek and beautiful Wilma the Cat.

We are busy planting a lot of potatoes, which do very well in our cool climate.  The potatoes are most delicious when freshly pulled from the ground.  We anticipate our first harvest at the end of June.  This year we will try to keep the potatoes in the ground all year round, since we discovered that they store much better that way.  As soon as we set out any box, Fuzzy the Cat always jumps into it!

So far in the vegetable garden, we have planted mixed lettuce greens, shelling peas, snow peas, potatoes, cabbage, brocolli, cauliflower, three kinds of kale, celery, and parsley.  The perennial plants including raspberries, walking onions, and the herb garden have all started to grow again.  In the orchard, blossoms are starting to show, asparagus has started to sprout, and strawberry plants are growing strong.  We have also transplanted half the raspberries to the orchard.

Fuzzy the Cat says "Until Next Time", the Summer Solstice is on its way!