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hanksgiving weekend marks an important transition for us on at the farm. Balance is starting to take shape in many ways. There is as much daylight hours as there is darkness. The workload is lightening and in pleasurable ways in which we can stop to enjoy the warmth of the autumn sun on our backs or stop and ponder geese migration as they fly overhead on a damp coastal day. Now it is not as if we do not enjoy or make note of these little things in life in the summer months but much too often thoughts are focused on catching up on weeding, or getting those last cabbage transplants out or fixing whatever has broken down that week. Balance is a beautiful thing.
Gone are the bountiful harvests of beans, tomatoes, basil and zucchini. Rutabaga, pie pumpkins, celeriac and parsnips are filling the market table and CSA boxes as autumn takes shape. We are excited at the variety of winter squash that is coming out of the fields. Red Kuri, Buttercup, Winter Luxury, Acorn, Baby Blue Hubbard, Butternut and Festival along with many more varieties are being cured for a tasty winters meal. The garlic beds are prepared and awaiting planting later this month.
We at the West End and Kits markets in Vancouver and at the Lonsdale Quay Farmers Market in North Vancouver for the rest of October. November brings the Winter Market at Nat Bailey every Saturday from November till April.
Have you checked out the Globe & Mail article regarding farmers markets in Vancouver that featured our farm? Click here for the article.
