Edgar Farms Peas & Farm Store News July 15, 2010 |
Dear Friends: We now are picking PEAS!! and they are available at our farm store located 10 km. west of Innisfail on the Cottonwood Road. For a printable map www.edgarfarms.com also at the Innisfail Growers booth at Central Alberta Farmer's Markets. For locations and times www.innisfailgrowers.com |
Our pea crop & more  SUPER SWEET PEAS - Our first planting of peas is now ready so we are picking delicious, incredibly sweet garden peas daily. We have many more plantings that will be coming on all summer so we should have peas right through until the first frost this fall. Peas love cool, damp weather and this year's growing conditions are perfect for them, the cool nights make them even sweeter!! Pictured here is our granddaughter that loves to go out to the pea field with us for snacks. BROAD BEANS - We have just now discovered the first baby broad bean so we should be picking by the last week of July with a few days of sunshine. GREEN & YELLOW BEANS - crop looks great, should be ready by August 10 or so.  BABY BEETS, SPINACH, LETTUCE, SWISS CHARD, GREEN ONIONS and MORE - We are harvesting fresh daily out of our chemical free garden. BECK FARMS CARROTS - Shelley tells us that her delicious super sweet carrots are very early this year; the wet spring helped to speed the germination of the carrot seed. She expects to start digging them about July 25.  UPPER GREEN FARMS POTATOES - Unfortunately, the potatoes are growing very slowly because of the unseasonably cold weather. We aren't expecting any new baby potatoes until about July 25 as well. |
Edgar Farms Asparagus Relish  Our delicious Asparagus Relish has been selected as # 4 of 29 Great Eats & Drinks in the City in the Summer by Julie Van Rosendaal as listed in the July August edition of "City Palate" magazine. She wrote "Asparagus Relish from Edgar Farms -Burgers and dogs are just vehicles to get this stuff from the jar to my mouth, and I'm not above eating it straight-up, scooped with a spoon." Asparagus Relish is available in our farm store or at the Farmers Markets at the Innisfail Growers Booth in 250 mL. & 500 mL. jars. Stop by our farm store to check out our entire selection of home made pickles, relishes, candies, pies, fruit leathers and much more. |
Asparagus Fern  The asparagus is now growing into it's fern stage and we are no longer picking. The stand of fern that we are seeing is the best that we have had in years. This indicates that the crowns getting strong are busy storing energy so that they will produce a great crop of asparagus next year. This picture was taken July 13, 2010 with our two adorable granddaughters posing in the fern for us. |
Asparagus Festival Gift Basket Winners  Pictured are the Jopkos, the winners of our Edgar Farms gift basket from our asparagus festival. They are members of the Red Deer Garden Club, at which I had a lot of fun giving a presentation all about asparagus early last spring. |
Open House on our Farm  Mark your calendars for August 7 & 8. We will be having a petting zoo, bale fort and many other fun kid friendly activities, a wagon ride out past the asparagus field to the pea field where you can sample our delicious sweet garden peas straight off the vines. Our open house in in conjuntion with Summertime Country Drive. for 15 other sites to visit that weekend, go to countrydrive.ca |
Keri & Randy are bringing more energy and enthusiasm into our farm and are leading the discussion we are in about continuing on the asparagus venture by the possibility of planting another field of asparagus to replace the old original one. This should maintain our level of production and allow us to keep supplying the markets. Also, Keri and Randy planted 540 baby trees last spring. The rain and cool weather have been perfect for the newly planted trees. They planted 4 varieties: Scot's Pine, White Spruce, Colorado Blue Spruce and Balsam Fir. In about 8 years with lots of love and attention, these trees should be mature enough to be sold as choose and cut Christmas trees! |
Thank you, everyone for all the support of our family farm est. 1907 !! Picture is of our family, the 4th, 5th,and 6th generations on our family farm.
Check out what is happening on our other websites: Edgar Farms Produce News Doug's Farm Blog http://dougsfarmblog.blogspot.com/ We also have all our previous newsletters at We have a Flickr account with lots of pictures of what is happening at We also have a Facebook page and would love you to be our friend.
Last but certainly not least we have our web site at |
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