In early August, we pulled the giant garlic to cure on the sunny deck.
We also pulled the purple onions and cured them on the sunny deck.
Fuzzy got the same idea enjoying all the sun on our property!
Hundreds of yellow onions came out the following week.
We ran out of room on the deck, so we had to start curing the yellow onions on top of the kindling storage box.
Here are some of the first carrots and beets that we harvested in the third week of August.
The ever so clever Gabriel at Sedna Designs and Robin at the Oceanfront Hotel gave us some salmon skin that they were using in a natural dyeing and fish skin tanning project for us to add to our compost pile. Here we have added the salmon skin and covered it with some cardboard to add carbon to all the salmon nitrogen. Thanks Gabriel and Robin!
And then we topped off the new compost pile with some dried grass clippings. Thanks Bob and Liz from Mitchell Bay!
The apple trees are starting to produce. The Redfree variety is really awesome.
Linda likes them so much she eats three at once!
Braided yellow and red onions in the golden fall light.
Another big bowl of goodness - cherry, grape, and Roma tomatoes, mini snacking cucumbers, and Hungarian Cheese sweet peppers.
Or would you like your pasta Primavera on a plate?
Tony and Donna gave us a pile of red plums from their forty year old tree in Mitchell Bay. There were so many we froze and dried a bunch. Thanks Tony and Donna!
Linda got some flowers from Donna's stunning flower garden too! Linda often buys flowers from the Market Garden Stand and Teddy and Kerri's "Sometimes Flowers". Thanks everyone for your beautiful bouquets!
Here are bags and boxes of custom orders of produce being assembled for delivery to Sointula and anywhere on Malcolm Island Saturday mornings. Everyone is welcome to order whatever they wish from a list that is posted on Facebook and on www.luckyfarm77.ca every Wednesday. To get on our email list, just send a note to hellofromluckyfarm77@gmail or phone us at 250-973-2077.
We collaborate with Alexandra Morton's Slow Dog Farm. Alex's apples, cucumelons, and New Zealand spinach are paired in this custom order with our colourful mixture of tomatoes and heaping bag of broccoli florets for another happy customer.
There is no minimum order required. Here is our very popular mini snacking cucumbers paired with our simple yet delicious Spring Mix.
Produce heading for the Market Garden Stand at the Sointula Resource Centre. Sometimes we bump into some nice people like Marjorie Greensides!
And more custom orders blending produce from Luckyfarm77 and Slow Dog Farm.
Alex's Purple Sprouting Brocolli caused quite the flurry and she quickly sold out!
Look what happens when farmers work together. Thanks Alex for being such an inspiration for us. What a great time of year this is , a really cornucopia!
Wilma and Fuzzy look forward to seeing you next time at Hallowe'en, the third harvest festival and the beginning of the new Keltic year when we'll have a special cat surprise.