by mikesgardenharvest | Aug 15, 2026 | Farm Happenings
There it was! The solution was right before my very eyes. Let me backtrack. Many years ago now, when the farm was on Greta Kryger’s property, we grew some remarkably delicious rainbow carrots in her clay soil. Very tricky to get to germinate and much harder than you...
by mikesgardenharvest | Aug 8, 2026 | Farm Happenings
Years ago, now, I was sitting in the office of a trucking school that helped me prepare for the AZ exam. On the wall there was a large recruitment poster of a truck with the caption, “No one ever wrote a song about a dentist” lol Farmers, it would seem, are often...
by mikesgardenharvest | Aug 1, 2026 | Farm Happenings
The opening scene in the iconic film “Field of Dreams” features Kevin Costner, who as a farmer walking through his field of corn. He stops dead in his tracks when he hears from seemingly nowhere, “if you build it, he will come”. If you haven’t seen the movie, it is...
by mikesgardenharvest | Jul 25, 2026 | Farm Happenings
The mainstay of our farm is to let it serve to connect people with how their food their food is grown. We do that in a few ways. The weekly CSA boxes, on site farm events and of course, our gardeners. It is our gardening community that is our highlight this week....
by mikesgardenharvest | Jul 18, 2026 | Farm Happenings
This week’s story has both nothing to do with the farm and yet everything to do with it. Years ago, in my early 20’s when I was attending the University of Guelph to study Agriculture, I lived off campus with 5 other students. One of them was a Jamaican lad named...
