by mikesgardenharvest | Aug 29, 2026 | Farm Happenings
I almost hit him with my car. In the dark of night, rolling in from making a delivery and I certainly wasn’t expecting anyone in our parking lot. Just at the last moment there was a figure of a man crouched with some equipment pointed towards the Eastern sky. What...
by mikesgardenharvest | Aug 22, 2026 | Farm Happenings
Yet again, I found debris strewn along the tractor path, and I was furious. A partial bag of compost. Containers of one size or another. I walked through the well-kept garden plots looking for the culprit. So thoughtless—and it’s been happening all season. Then...
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...
by mikesgardenharvest | Jul 11, 2026 | Farm Happenings
One of the challenges of running a seasonal business is staff. We use a mixed bag of folk that come to us with a variety of situations and experiences. Over the course of the summer, we transition from a gaggle of individuals to a well-oiled machine. Typically, the...
by mikesgardenharvest | Jul 4, 2026 | Farm Happenings
Well hello there, This is the first edition of our weekly farm newsletter (The News Lettuce). You are getting this because either you signed up for a vegetable basket with us OR you subscribed to it through our website. This will keep you updated with all things...
by mikesgardenharvest | Oct 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hosting the general public, who are inclined to come onto the farm, does make for some unique, impromptu conversations. Perhaps no more so than last night. Pulling into the dark parking lot, there was the barely visible figure of a man standing in the middle of it....
