Cropthorne Farm
REAL. GOOD. HONEST. FOOD. From our family farm in Ladner BC.
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👩🏻🌾We want to grow for you!👩🏻🌾 One of our favourite parts of being a CSA farm is the connections with our members and the community it creates.
We love seeing kids grow, members sharing family recipes or sharing love of a new under appreciated veggie or just a good honest tongue wag each week.
Our Saturday farm pickup is full (stay tuned though we are trying to find a way to add more spots!) and still have space at our other pickup days. 🥕🥬And there’s a 5% discount on shares until the end of this month!🍅🥦
While it's looking pretty white outside these days, in a few short months our flower field will be brimming with all sorts of colourful blooms (and full of birds, bees and other beneficial insects!) •
As a bonus, CSA members get to pick a FREE bouquet of flowers with their veggie share each week. •
(And if you are interested in a purely a flower CSA, check out @riverandseaflowers our sister farm who makes beautifully stunning bouquets for their flower CSA members)
Our staff is what makes the magic here at Cropthorne.
We are at tight knit team and I love the bonds that are created each season amongst the crew.
When it comes down to it, the best way I can show them I care as a boss is a safe and enjoyable work environment and I love that the crew is bought in and cares as much as I do, it makes implementing farm safety so much easier!
We really do take farm safety very seriously here at the farm and we are proud to now be COR certified by WorkSafe and Ag Safe BC.
#winterjobsonthefarm #agsafe #farmsafety 📷 by @agsafebc
Looks like another week of cold temperatures and now the snow has really picked up.
Thanks to all our customers, whether restaurants, Deep Winter CSA members or farmers market goers, for understanding our diminished offerings due to the weather.
Eating seasonally means being up for anything and weeks like theses mean lots of storage root vegetables and leafy greens hidden under row cover in the greenhouse.
Hopefully by weeks end we will be out harvesting in the fields again once the days rise above zero but for now none of us are complaining about harvesting in the greenhouses with the wind and snow blowing around outside!
We’ve opened up registration to our summer CSA to new members.
Check out our website for more details and to hear what current CSA members have to say.
We look forward to being your farmers this season and to get growing 😊
A Brief Breakdown:
3 Share Sizes
6 Pickup Locations
Flexible Vacation Hold
Free Flower and Pumpkin Upick
The ladies don’t seem to mind the cold temperatures but they certainly enjoy a refill of nice warm water
So much potential in these small little packages.
We’ve got our @johnnys_seeds and @osborneseed seeds all sorted and just waiting for @highmowingorganicseeds in the mail and then we are set for the season.
We check each pack for germ levels, write down lot numbers, make a note on each pack that it’s 2019 seed and make sure everything is organic or untreated and then group into each veggie type and then pop into an unplugged freezer until we need to seed. #winterjobsonthefarm
Always exciting to be harvesting something new this time of year. This is by far the earliest we’ve ever harvested Purple Sprouting Broccoli but we aren’t complaining!
We will have it at the winter farmers market in Vancouver this Saturday! 💜🥦💜
Been cuddled up in bed most of the day trying to stave off mastitis (pretty sure 🐄 are my spirit animal these days... tmi? 🤷🏻♀️) I’ve been playing armchair farmer the last few weeks with the rest of the Cropthorne ladies running the show.
It’s always nice to get field updates like this one from @izz_ro looks like our purple sprouting broccoli will be extra early this year!
We are at the winter farmers market today from 10-2 with all sorts of winter goodies 🥕🥔🍠
Check out insta stories for more of what’s at market today!
My big lessons from 2018 RANT, it’s long and rant-y 😬
Yesterday I was lying in a MRI machine getting my brain scanned after a very brief scare (Only those scary moments when you are in a claustrophobic chamber, unable to move when you are forced into remembering what matters most!) I am by no means totally balanced with family and farm life, it has been a constant struggle since starting the farm but 2018 was great start in consciously shifting that balance.
I am so grateful to our farm team for stepping up. They quite honestly have been running the show the last while and have allowed me to step back and I love seeing them all grow and learn here.
For anyone starting out farming, the farm can be all consuming, there is always something left undone and there is this false sense of pride of grinding out long days and having worked X amount of days in a row. You can sacrifice your health, your happiness and your friendships.
The farm provides so much purpose, nourishment and hope and I don’t want to discount that, it is not this one sided relationship that doesn’t give but to tip to the point where all life becomes is work is not a good place to be.
What we should be championing, is instead of the photo of the all too often late night harvest finish or the August burnout rant and instead be pumped on that epic family supper or the 3 day weekend to the lake.
That’s what I want to see more in my real life, offline version of best 2019 memories next year, a little less work and a little more play, life is just too short to be working away, regardless of how much one loves their job.
After ten years of farming, I think I am finally starting to grasp what true sustainability is and how important the human aspect is.
Last Day at the farmstand until June!
Thanks to our customers to making this our best year yet! 💚
Hours & Info
👩🏻🌾We want to grow for you!👩🏻🌾 One of our favourite parts of being a CSA farm is the connections with our members and the community it creates.
We love seeing kids grow, members sharing family recipes or sharing love of a new under appreciated veggie or just a good honest tongue wag each week.
Our Saturday farm pickup is full (stay tuned though we are trying to find a way to add more spots!) and still have space at our other pickup days. 🥕🥬And there’s a 5% discount on shares until the end of this month!🍅🥦
While it's looking pretty white outside these days, in a few short months our flower field will be brimming with all sorts of colourful blooms (and full of birds, bees and other beneficial insects!) •
As a bonus, CSA members get to pick a FREE bouquet of flowers with their veggie share each week. •
(And if you are interested in a purely a flower CSA, check out @riverandseaflowers our sister farm who makes beautifully stunning bouquets for their flower CSA members)
Our staff is what makes the magic here at Cropthorne.
We are at tight knit team and I love the bonds that are created each season amongst the crew.
When it comes down to it, the best way I can show them I care as a boss is a safe and enjoyable work environment and I love that the crew is bought in and cares as much as I do, it makes implementing farm safety so much easier!
We really do take farm safety very seriously here at the farm and we are proud to now be COR certified by WorkSafe and Ag Safe BC.
#winterjobsonthefarm #agsafe #farmsafety 📷 by @agsafebc
Looks like another week of cold temperatures and now the snow has really picked up.
Thanks to all our customers, whether restaurants, Deep Winter CSA members or farmers market goers, for understanding our diminished offerings due to the weather.
Eating seasonally means being up for anything and weeks like theses mean lots of storage root vegetables and leafy greens hidden under row cover in the greenhouse.
Hopefully by weeks end we will be out harvesting in the fields again once the days rise above zero but for now none of us are complaining about harvesting in the greenhouses with the wind and snow blowing around outside!
We’ve opened up registration to our summer CSA to new members.
Check out our website for more details and to hear what current CSA members have to say.
We look forward to being your farmers this season and to get growing 😊
A Brief Breakdown:
3 Share Sizes
6 Pickup Locations
Flexible Vacation Hold
Free Flower and Pumpkin Upick
The ladies don’t seem to mind the cold temperatures but they certainly enjoy a refill of nice warm water
So much potential in these small little packages.
We’ve got our @johnnys_seeds and @osborneseed seeds all sorted and just waiting for @highmowingorganicseeds in the mail and then we are set for the season.
We check each pack for germ levels, write down lot numbers, make a note on each pack that it’s 2019 seed and make sure everything is organic or untreated and then group into each veggie type and then pop into an unplugged freezer until we need to seed. #winterjobsonthefarm
Always exciting to be harvesting something new this time of year. This is by far the earliest we’ve ever harvested Purple Sprouting Broccoli but we aren’t complaining!
We will have it at the winter farmers market in Vancouver this Saturday! 💜🥦💜
Been cuddled up in bed most of the day trying to stave off mastitis (pretty sure 🐄 are my spirit animal these days... tmi? 🤷🏻♀️) I’ve been playing armchair farmer the last few weeks with the rest of the Cropthorne ladies running the show.
It’s always nice to get field updates like this one from @izz_ro looks like our purple sprouting broccoli will be extra early this year!
We are at the winter farmers market today from 10-2 with all sorts of winter goodies 🥕🥔🍠
Check out insta stories for more of what’s at market today!
My big lessons from 2018 RANT, it’s long and rant-y 😬
Yesterday I was lying in a MRI machine getting my brain scanned after a very brief scare (Only those scary moments when you are in a claustrophobic chamber, unable to move when you are forced into remembering what matters most!) I am by no means totally balanced with family and farm life, it has been a constant struggle since starting the farm but 2018 was great start in consciously shifting that balance.
I am so grateful to our farm team for stepping up. They quite honestly have been running the show the last while and have allowed me to step back and I love seeing them all grow and learn here.
For anyone starting out farming, the farm can be all consuming, there is always something left undone and there is this false sense of pride of grinding out long days and having worked X amount of days in a row. You can sacrifice your health, your happiness and your friendships.
The farm provides so much purpose, nourishment and hope and I don’t want to discount that, it is not this one sided relationship that doesn’t give but to tip to the point where all life becomes is work is not a good place to be.
What we should be championing, is instead of the photo of the all too often late night harvest finish or the August burnout rant and instead be pumped on that epic family supper or the 3 day weekend to the lake.
That’s what I want to see more in my real life, offline version of best 2019 memories next year, a little less work and a little more play, life is just too short to be working away, regardless of how much one loves their job.
After ten years of farming, I think I am finally starting to grasp what true sustainability is and how important the human aspect is.
Last Day at the farmstand until June!
Thanks to our customers to making this our best year yet! 💚
After a little hiatus on introducing our crew we are back to it!
Today meet CRYSTA!
After pursuing agro-ecology at UBC, she then worked for UBC Farm before coming to us in 2015. Crysta's relaxed and positive personality makes her a gem to work with.
Crysta does all the direct seeding on the farm, does our restaurant deliveries and helps manage the day to day jobs of the farm.
💥Crysta💥
Hails from: Long Island, New York
Number of seasons at Cropthorne: 3
Number of seasons farming: 5
Favourite Vegetables: Potatoes, carrots and fennel is real nice. It is hard to choose!
Favourite job on the farm: Harvesting cabbage is fun. Celeriac harvest is really satisfying, prepping beds, getting ready for transplanting.
Why do you like farming: Get to be outside, get your hands in the soil and I love food so it is fun to eat and grow it. and it is a job you can be proud of.
Sooo much bounty at the winter farmers market today!
Come stock up on veggies, it is a beautiful day in the big city!
Winter Sustenance
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