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We’ll have apricots at the @pembyfarmersmarket this Friday! This will be only week we have them so make sure you don’t miss out. • • • #apricots #fruit #orchard #certifiedorganic #devine #pemberton #organic #eatinseason #s
Strawberries are back in business! They are big, juicy and sweet and we’ll have them tomorrow at the @pembyfarmersmarket alongside our cherries, which are at peak ripeness right now! We’ll also have other favourites such as sugar snap pea
We checked in our our winter squash patch and it’s looking great! We’re experimenting with interplanting between our apple tree rows and our hope is that the squash will help keep the weeds down. • Pictured here is a future kuri squa
We have LOTS of new items making their market debut for the season today! Along side our certified organic cherries we will have eggplant, sugar snap peas, zucchini, cucumbers, a few cherry tomatoes and our usual greens! See you today from 3-6:30pm a
We’ll have the first of our certified organic cherries at the @pembyfarmersmarket this Friday from 3-6:30pm. We will also have lots of fresh vegetables perfect for summer salads so you don’t have to turn on the stove! • • #che
CSA #1 is going out today! There’s so much that leads up to this moment and we are excited to be doing the first delivery to our amazing members that support our farm! This weeks box includes carrots, pac choi, arugula, green onions, strawber
When it’s 43 in the shade and 32 in the house, the creek is only bearable place to be. We’ve been doing early morning starts and irrigating the fields non stop. Some crops look happier than others and we know this heat wave hasn’t
Our first CSA shares go out next week!! • 🍓 Tuesday members from Mt. Currie to D’Arcy, check your emails today! This weeks newsletter with what to expect in your share and details about the first delivery are there! • 🥕Pemberton me
Had a baking weekend and made my first galettes with produce from the farm! Pic 1: strawberry rhubarb 🍓 Pic 2: with the leftover dough I made a “pizzalette”- tomato sauce, cheese and sautéed kale, garlic scapes, green onions and
It’s a beautiful day to be thinning apples! #orchard #apples #bcfruit #organic #certifiedorganic #devine #pemberton #fruit #buylocal #smallscalefarming
June is here and it’s starting to look pretty farmy around here! Everything is basically in the ground now after a bit of a chilly spring (looking at you May late frost 🤦‍♀️) but now we are nearly in the best phase of farming, where you ca
Tomorrow is the first @pembyfarmersmarket of the season! From 3-6:30pm at the downtown barn! • We’ll be there with strawberries, pac choi and more 🍓 • Hope to see you there! • #pemberton #market #pembertonfarmersmarket #bcfarme
We have been radio silent for a while, but the farm is in full motion! Here are a few snapshots of what’s growing. And yes, I took that photo of delicious ripe strawberries this morning! They will be available at the first @pembyfarmersmarket J
Getting ready to mow this beautiful winter rye cover crop to make room for summer plants 🍆🫑🍅🥒 • • • • #covercrop #greenmanure #soilhealth #feedthesoil #organicfarming #smallscalefarming #certifiedorganic #bcfarms #hellosummer
Our first CSA harvest box delivery is less than 2 months away and we still have a few spots left to fill. • Sign up now to receive 17 weeks of fresh, local, and certified organic fruits and vegetables from July-October. All produce is grown at o
We’ve been asked a few times why we’re growing vegetables and not more fruit if we’re an orchard, and the answer is “we’re doing both!” • The behind the scenes that people don’t see at our market stalls