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...
by Haliburton Farm | Oct 7, 2020 | Volunteering, Work parties
It’s time for another work party at Haliburton Community Organic Farm! Please let us know if you would like to join us to… Carry on the cleanup on our Society land: we’ll be pruning, weeding, sowing a cover crop, planting garlic and maintaining chip...
by Haliburton Farm | Oct 5, 2020 | Farm Stand
It’s coming up! This Thursday October 8 will be the last day our farm stand is open, from 12-5pm. Our fabulous farm stand volunteer Suzanne has tirelessly and enthusiastically welcomed shoppers each week since the spring and we owe her huge thanks and umpteen...
by Haliburton Farm | Sep 14, 2020 | Haliburton Articles, Recent News, Volunteering
Like all that’s happened this year, who could have predicted wildfire smoke from south of the border would get in the way of a work party? Nevertheless… We did have a good crew of workers, some from the neighbourhood and some from the Canadian School of...
by Haliburton Farm | Sep 4, 2020 | Work parties
Another month another work party! You’re invited — September 13 from 10am-12noon. Please email us if you’d like to come! What we have planned for our next work party: a cleanup of a small corner of the farm that we call the Society Land, which has...
by Haliburton Farm | Aug 5, 2020 | Volunteering
For this month’s volunteer work party, we thought we’d sweeten the volunteer thank-you pot.. with chips! Here’s the deal. We have some big piles of wood chips and a lot of fading chip paths between and around the farms. We need some help to wheel those...
by Haliburton Farm | Jul 6, 2020 | Farm Tours
After a COVID-inspired pause, we are delighted to invite groups wanting to visit Haliburton Community Organic Farm to schedule a tour! Social distancing requirements and other COVID protocols are now in place, and we must keep the numbers of each tour to 8 or fewer,...
