Grand Opening of the Yarrow Farmstand Market - June 1st!

The grand opening of the Yarrow Farmstand Market will be Saturday, June 1st (Yarrow Days!). Come check out the locally grown produce, eggs, crafts and more at our cute little farmstand located right on Yarrow Central Rd, right across from Inspired Arts & Crafts in Yarrow BC.

Interested in selling at the Yarrow Market? We have space for locals who make, bake, or grow a quality product. Please get in touch with Tamara at tamara.bonnemaison@gmail.com if you would like more information.
 

A big thanks to all those who donated their time and materials to building this beautiful little farstand building. Especially Rudy & Rita Bot! We couldn't have done it without you :)

See you on June 1st!

Big thanks to everyone who helped build this beautiful little farmstand! And an especially big thank you to Rudy & Rita Bot :)

Growing Green Things Makes My Heart Sing!

The farm is off to a great start this year. We currently have 33 x 150' beds out in the fields that have been seeded (carrots, scallions, beets, spinach, greens, turnips, radishes, kale's, collards, herbs, potatoes, etc), or have transplants in them. And several thousand transplants in the greenhouse that are almost ready to go out (not including the thousands of onion, shallot & leek transplants!).

As well, our Farm Center area has been set up around our new-recycled Barn. The wash station was moved and rebuilt, the cooler unit has been set on its final resting place beside the barn, and the pump and pressure tank have been successfully hooked up to the new well in the south field. Which is going to make things a whole lot easier this year, as last year we were traveling all over the 20 acres of the farm to reach the different stations... now everything is within 20ft of each other. Yay!

We have also begun builing a cute little farmstand at the front of the Ecovillage on Yarrow Central Road. This farm stand will house the produce put there by the farmers who grow veggies at Yarrow Ecovillage Community Farm. Thanks to Tam and Rudy, and all the others involved in organizing this cute little farmstand!

We are also gearing up to host our first ever Barn Dance this Saturday, and its shaping up to be one fantastic event. Maybe we'll see you there :)

The Farm Center is really coming along. Pump house, Wash station, Cooler, and Barn, all within 20ft of each other!

Salad Mix transplants!

Red, Yellow, and Pink Chard transplants almost ready to go out.

The Broccoli will be going out soon, as well as the Kohlrabi. Then the Cauliflowers and the Cabbages :)

Nothing like a carpet of Onion, Shallow and Leek transplants!

Big thanks to all the folks who helped put together the Farmstand at the front of the Ecovillage. We'll be selling veggies out of here to the locals this summer. Thanks Rudy!

2013 CSA Harvest Box Program is full!

Well its official, Ohm Organic Farm's 2013 CSA Harvest Box program is now full. Thank you to all of our returning and new members for your support. And thank you to all those who's interest we piqued, but weren't able to make it into the program this year.

We are very excited about this years program, and we hope you all are too!

See you soon :)

Shauna Gavigan
Ohm Organic Farm @ Yarrow Ecovillage

Gumboot Formal Barn Dance - April 27th, 2013

The Yarrow Ecovillage Community Farm is holding a 

Barn Dance! 

April 27th, 2013

Attire is "Gumboot Formal"

Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door, and kids are free.

Come for the potluck dinner at 5:30pm, then get ready to dance your gumboots off to the string-band Greenwood. Anyone dressed in "gumboot formal" gets entered for the door prize draw! Warm up at the bonfire, or cool down with a drink from our cash bar and a stroll by the silent auction table.

Never heard of Greenwood? "With twin fiddle, mandolin, octave-mandolin guitar, and stand-up bass, Greenwood will get you dancing or at least tapping your toes to their brand of string-band music."

Buy your tickets at http://barndance.eventzilla.net/

All proceeds go to the Yarrow Ecovillage Community Farm

42312 Yarrow Central Rd., Yarrow BC

Contact: yecfarm@gmail.com

Early Spring Work

We are very excited to have an intern on board with us at Ohm Organic Farm this year. Marcel is quite the educated and intersting fellow, who has helped set up rural farming projects in deveoping countries the past several years. He is interested in starting his own small farm, sometime in the next few years, and is very enthusiastic about working with us this year to gain some much needed hands on experience (as he has done mostly the planning side of farming thus far). Welcome aboard Marcel!

Another milestone to note is the moving of the perennial herb stock from the North Feild, to our larger plot in the South Feild. We thought this would be an easy task; just dig the herbs out of the ground, put them on the hay wagon and transport them to the S. Field, then replant them. Well this turned out to be a 4hr job for three people! lol. We had more herbs than we expected, and our bodies were weak from a winter's worth of rest!

Also on the agenda was starting the installation of the Pea Trellising in the South Feild. We plan to have 3 x 130' beds worth of Sugar Snap peas this year (you can never have enough!). Which is a 4x increase over last years production (whoa!).

Next project: building a mini greenhouse in the North Field to be used as a waylay station for transplants going out to the field (only the ones the slugs wont eat!) and then for use as a greenhouse for our pepper plants this year. More details to come!

Barn Update - March 9, 2013

The 2nd phase of the Barn Project is now complete (YAY!). The roof and cedar siding are on, and the engineer has signed off on the structure completing our building permit requirements (Exciting!). And boy does it smell fantastic in there! There's nothing like the smell of fresh cedar.

Now its on to Phase 3: Installing a crush pad inside the barn, laying crush on the east side of the barn for the Wash Station, and laying a crush road to the barn. We plan on having this part of the project completed by the end of this month. Then its on to the End Walls & Doors!

Once Phase 3 is complete, we will start work on organizing the Barn Dance! We plan to host a small commemorative event at the Barn, then its off to the Community Centre down the street for some food, drinks, live music and good old fashioned fun! More details to come, so stay tuned.

And so it begins...

Though the land is still sleeping (more like dozing, its been a very mild winter here), the farmer's are stirring. We started work in the greenhouse last week, seeding our leeks & onions (Yay!). We will be seeding trays in the greenhouse, now, almost every week until Aug. And will be putting tens of thousands of transplants out into the feild this season from the greenhouse (exciting!).

Below you can see Nevin smiling next to our hard work, leaning on our propagation table we designed the first year we moved here. This table has been invaluable at starting seeds early in the season, as our greenhouse is unheated. The de-icing cables (normally used in outdoor applications to keep ice off of roof's and pipes) that line the bottom, are what make this table so productive. They create a warm humid environment within our propagation table; add a fan and you've got yourself a great little envoronment for seedlings.

This time of year we are seeding in the greenhouse, setting up trellis's, and taking advantage of every dry day to till and start getting the early crop beds ready. As well, our Barn is almost complete (YAY!), which means its almost time to move the cooler and the wash station to the barn site and get them ready for the season (so exciting!).

Nevin looking happy after seeding our leeks & onions last week, which you can see in our propagation table in the greenhouse.

Arugula and spinach in the greenhouse beds.