Metchosin Grown and Certified Organic
We love growing delicious vegetables and sharing the abundance.
Our farm stand is open every Tuesday and Saturday all winter long.
On the farm stand this week:
Beets • Cukes • Purple Sprouting Broccoli • Cabbage • Carrots • Chard • Collards • Garlic • Kale • Leeks • Parsley • Potatoes • Rutabaga • Salad Greens • Turnips • Winter Squash • Saanich Organics Vegetable Seeds
A Plan for Managing Traffic Flow
We're a little concerned about the line up created by everyone having to wait for their turn. We want to get you in and out in the safest way possible, and prevent a back log of cars impacting our wonderfully patient neighbours on Wootton Rd. If you could parallel park as illustrated, and then drive out along our neighbour's driveway, this will prevent the congestion. Please check that the parking lot is full first before parking on the road. I think this will keep us all safer. And please keep a safe distance from others as you wait to shop, one person at the farm stand at a time please!
Hard at it this week!
Its been a stressful second week for our amazing staff but we're breezing through big jobs at a great pace. It was awkward at first to figure out how to work together while staying 6 ft apart but we've mastered it. We planted almost four thousand new, disease-free strawberry plants from the nursery which will renew our patch and have it healthy and producing strawberries by July. For anyone interested, we do have extra plants which we'll sell at cost .50¢ each. They definitely look horrible but its because they're still dormant, but not to worry because they perk up fast.
We also planted our seed potatoes, which we bumped up by a week so we could know how much of our seed inventory we could keep on selling. Turns out it's tight, but our friend Diana at Lohbrunner has some beautiful potatoes for you, and so does Dieter Eisenhawer of Eisenhawer Organic Farm.
Regina was plugging in the seed potatoes, and with Bob's help from our Farm-All Cub tractor that made the trenches and covered them up after, we were done our acre in less than a day!
What is happening with Markets?
The short answer is that no one knows, the long answer is that a lot of creativity is happening with alternative ideas on how to get food to people. From on-line market places, to customer buying groups and everything in between, the emails have been flying. Its really too early to tell but a lot of our customers are in quarantine and have lots of time to think.
On the menu at Sea Bluff Farm this week
Mutton Stew
We've been getting Parry Bay mutton from Nootka Rose Milling and making nourishing stews which we can put in the slow cooker and savour at the end of the day. Throw in stewing meat, onions, carrots, rutabaga, turnips. Top with water, and some wine if you want and set on medium heat for 4-6 hours. Add potatoes in for the last hour.