by Haliburton Farm | Apr 15, 2021 | Farm Stand, Markets, Recipes
Spring is here, and the Haliburton farmers are heading back to Moss Street Market this Saturday (10am-1pm) – come and see what they’ve been growing! The 2021 season starts next week – May 1st (10am-2pm) Chives are growing plentifully just now and we...
by Haliburton Farm | Apr 13, 2021 | Volunteering, Work parties
Our April work party divided its time between the Society land – weeding, pruning, moving some plants around – and the driveway where ivy had been getting the upper hand. As it was about to seed, the time seemed right to attack, and we gathered a sizeable...
by Haliburton Farm | Mar 22, 2021 | Volunteering, Work parties
Our valiant March work party cut back the ivy that was creeping under our neighbours’ fence in just a couple of hours. This is an all too familiar problem in our urban lives and worth us all keeping an eye on what we are unwittingly sharing with our neighbours!...
by Haliburton Farm | Mar 15, 2021 | Volunteering, Work parties
With the recent relaxation of provincial health guidelines, we’re eager to welcome volunteers back onto the farm! The guidelines specify a maximum of 10 people, outdoors only, and sticking to a regular group. Hopefully the guidelines will relax further going...
by Haliburton Farm | Mar 12, 2021 | Farm Stand
If you didn’t know, the happy chickens at @makohafarm are producing lots of beautiful eggs! Every Saturday between 11am and 1pm, Makoha has an egg stand set up at the Haliburton community farm stand. They have also had seeds, seed potatoes, and a bit of produce....
by Haliburton Farm | Feb 2, 2021 | Seedy Saturdays
Hali is delighted to be part of BC Virtual Seedy Saturday (Feb 19, 20, 21) – and the program is now up: http://www.bcseeds.org/schedule/ This event has been organized by Vancouver’s Farm Folk City Folk, and involves participation by seed-lovers and vendors from...
by Haliburton Farm | Jan 3, 2021 | Seedy Saturdays
Happy new year! Last year around this time we were getting ready to gather at the Gardens at HCP for our annual Saanich Seedy Saturday. We were lucky to have been the first of the year in Canada, and thus escaped lockdown. It was, as always, a popular, well attended...
by Haliburton Farm | Dec 11, 2020 | Volunteering, Work parties
Currently as our province is in a new state of COVID-19 lockdown, very sadly we have had to cancel our December work party. Although we have carefully spaced and followed protocols, we are bound by the public health order which asks us not to hold events (and defines...
by Haliburton Farm | Dec 4, 2020 | Education
Calling all BC farmers who care about the soil! Help us to change the policy paradigm of BC agriculture by completing a survey at https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/QRYZMDF. Your input will help to draw connections between farmer health, soil quality and product quality,...
by Haliburton Farm | Nov 9, 2020 | Volunteering, Work parties
The cover crop we planted last month – winter wheat – is coming up! And the seeds we harvested at September’s work party are dry and ready to sort. This month we’ll be tackling the following: Sorting the seeds we collected earlier this fall, using the...
