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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Certified Organic...explained

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Boy I am surprised at how much misinformation is still out there about Organics. I recently went to a farmers market where the nice lady tol...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Loblaws complaining about the price of food from farmers...

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after posting a $189 million dollar profit in the third quarter of this year! This is a CBC story that was brought to my attention by For th...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

Heritage Grains for 2010 – Part 1

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I have plans to establish more test plots and to expand the seed bases of the grains I have already tested. We have established another g...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Getting Started with Organics Part 2

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There is of course the odd monkey wrench that gets thrown into the organic rotation plans. This year for instance was horribly dry. It was o...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

New Heritage Seeds Arrived!

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This is the package that greeted me in the mail yesterday. I recently joined the Seed Sanctuary sponsored by Salt Spring Seeds . Dan sent t...
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Getting Started With Organic Grains Part 1 of 2

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I thought I would post just some basic information on my thought processes with getting started in organic grain farming. I am not a scienti...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Now This Is COLD!

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Sunday morning we awoke to a record low...the coldest spot in North America. Minus 47 degrees celcius. The mercury in the thermometer was we...
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Small Scale Organic Grain Farming

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When we made the decision to farm organically we had no choice but to start small. I had grown up farming on a large scale with my Dad and C...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Heritage Grains vs. Modern Varieties

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A very important question was posted by Rich in Oklahoma..."Do you have any experience or thoughts about how heritage wheat compares to...
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Seed and Plant Sanctuary

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We have just joined the Salt Spring Seeds - Seed and Plant Sanctuary For Canada program. Dan Jason, owner of Salt Spring Seeds, has an ext...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Farmers Market

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Well, I was in contact today with the manager of the Spruce Grove Farmers Market and confirmed that we will be a vendor at the market begin...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Winter Hits Gold Forest Farms!

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On Friday we got around 25 cm of snow! What a wonderful surprise that was. With how little precipitation we have received this year, this sn...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

Year-end of Grain Farming

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Well, the year of grain farming is pretty much over. I still have 9 totes of organic wheat in the yard that need to be cleaned and bagged an...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Pigs Are Ordered!

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After an absence of porcine critters on the farm for the past year, we have finally ordered our weaners! I met with Alan of Irvings Farm Fre...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Gleaner Combines

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I continue to get a lot of comments and e-mails about my 1967 Gleaner C2 combine. I love this combine. It has a lot of features that were no...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Verified Beef? WTH?

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I just noticed one of those google ads that pop up under my posts from time to time. It reads "Alberta Beef Producers...Is your cattle ...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Winter "Pasturing"

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Here is a little explanation of what we do with our critters in the winter. In the past we have fed our animals close to the house where it ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Prairie Mill Bread

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The second week of November Prairie Mill Bread Co . recently held a promotion at Planet Organic in Edmonton. Buy one loaf and get one free!...

Ebey Farm Blog...a new favorite

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Bruce King writes almost daily on his findings in running a small farm in the northwest U.S. on his blog ebeyfarm . Bruce has a technical ba...

Pasture Based Pigs

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The following is the unedited version of an article I wrote in Small Farm Canada magazine back in 2006. There is some debate ongoing about ...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Cost of Organic Food

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I feel like ranting a little. As often happens I have talked to people recently who dont know that I am an organic farmer. I almost always...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Finished Combining...Finally

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Good grief...what a year. Yesterday I went to the field where I still have swaths laying. It is a difficult property that I just picked up t...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Harvest is over?

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Well, what a year. I know that everyone laughs when farmers complain about the weather, but come on! This spring was so incredibly dry that ...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Hand Powered Flour Mills

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I received an e-mail today from a nice fellow asking where he could obtain a hand-powered grain mill. I knew that they were still being prod...
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