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Big shout out to our crew this past week. From coming in on Saturday to get ahead of the freezing temps with some harvesting before the soil froze. To packing restaurant orders in -2 degrees in the barn. (Thank goodness for wool clothing!) To coming up with some imaginative solutions to deal with the cold (re washing veg in the walk-in cooler as it was much warmer and above zero!) Also shout out to our neighbours for plowing the road and pulling our crews cars out (thanks @emmaleafarms ) Not the best week to have our tractors in the shop 🤷🏻‍♀️ Us west coasters don’t have to deal with the cold and snow often but when it does come, it kinda throws a wrench in things and all around team work, it’s what makes it all work out smoothly in a week like this!
In another round of Farm Fit (Crossfit for 👩🏼‍🌾) Isabelle and Allie were putting an extra layer on the sprouting brocc and cauli. (Goose and I for moral support and the v. important Instagram documentation) Fingers crossed they make it through this upcoming cold spell.
He’s 1 🥳 And heads up this is a straight up doula appreciation post, one year later... I am forever grateful for @anydaynowbirthservices for sticking through it with me. The day Gus was born was the only day she had something important on the the books and I was dreading 8am, after being by my side the last 17 hours, she had to leave and her sub to come (an equally awesome doula, I am sure of it). All I know is Sarah worked a miracle and knew I needed her support and stayed with me and played a big part in giving me the birth that felt right given the circumstances (of being at a hospital and on a no food no water order etc etc) Also grateful for my midwife who let me ride it out and the nurses who made it all seamless, oh yea and to the guy who got me into this, thanks love💛 And why am I sharing this? I don’t know, maybe it’s because birth matters and even 365 days after I still well up thinking about it.
Why is Mathilde smiling? New prop trays were delivered today 🥳 After years of single use (or maybe 2-3 year use) we invested (big bucks 😳) into these new trays that have a 10+ year life. I won’t say it’s not tough investing into something that has at least a 7+ year payoff but it’s certainly one that mama earth will be proud of and that is aligned with what we do here at Cropthorne. We can’t wait to seed some baby 🌱 🌱🌱 into theme later this month once we really kick off the 2020 year with our first seeding! #wheredoesthewintergo #whatoffseason
What a gem of year
Eat local y’all! Nice work Cropthorne crew, the bounty is strong on solstice. So grateful for the fields in which this bounty comes from, the hands that harvest it and the folks that it eat it.
Holy moly time flies! This photo popped up from 9 years ago. When we had just a single stall at the winter market, no market help and just one employee to help with the harvest. No kids, no partner, and no idea where I or the farm was going! Our single stall has grown to 4 and I never imagined the farm would grow to what it has, including all the staff that have been a part of it all. Feeling pretty grateful for all the support to be able to grow my dreams to this💫
Hey Vancouver, Only a few more weeks of this gem @lehmanncrysta She'll be repping Cropthorne tomorrow at the winter farmers market. Since 2015, Crysta has been a huge part of our farm, starting of as a farm hand and now as co-assistant manager. She is a total pleasure to work with and her passion for life is infectious. While she's not gone yet, I can't help but tear up thinking of Cropthorne without her and I know lots of other people will miss her too so come on down and give this gal a big ol' hug before she's off to travel the world.
Ohhhhh just another day on the farm, Adan and Martin bringing in the January King Cabbage. Today the crew spent the morning in 2 degree sleet preparing for the cold weather that is about to hit later this week. I am at a lost for words about how much our crew means to me. It’s hard with little kids, I’m around inconsistently. I want to be there more but I seem to get the bare minimum office work done. I can totally rationalize it but doesn’t feel great as I’m driving off to preschool and they are out there getting ‘er done. So just in case it wasn’t obvious, Sylvia, Crysta, Adan, Isabelle, Jenna, Mathilde, Martin and Allie are doing amazing at harvesting all the things. As for me, I know it’s the long game. I have the rest of my life to farm full on and if for a few years I’m out of it a bit, it’s not only ok but necessary to raise the next gen, but bah looking forward to some dirt under the nails again. #musingsfromafarmingmama
Just a reminder now that November is here, the @cropthornefarmstand is only open on SATURDAYS from 10-3 until December 21 🥕🍠🥦🥔
Always nice to get away and always nice to come back to this magic. I didn’t grow up going anywhere tropical or to Disneyland, I never pinned for those trips I just knew our family did things different. Instead our family holidays were full of road trips to northern Saskatchewan or the Alberta foothills or the Peace. Car camping, listening to hours of CBC radio, fishing and being out in nature as much as possible. So going to Hawai’i felt totally luxurious and strange, the good kind of strange though! I don’t think Hawai’i will be an annual pilgrimage but what a beautiful place in the world to check out for a few days.
This past season has been like no other. While being self employed makes maternity leave for me impossible, I knew for my own mental health and to really enjoy the first year with #minimega I would scale back what I would do at the farm this season. Isabelle and Crysta who’ve been co-managing the day to day stuff this year have been amazing as well as the team as a whole, to the point that I felt a bit redundant whenever I could submerge myself back into the day to day rhyme of the farm. It is a terrific problem to have, to have a crew who can get it all done although I am desperate to get my hands in the soil again and to get back to work full time. I know babies don’t keep and I’ll cherish this year for the extra moments with my family and am so grateful to our crew for letting me step back and even sneak a trip to Hawai’i!✨✨✨
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Big shout out to our crew this past week. From coming in on Saturday to get ahead of the freezing temps with some harvesting before the soil froze. To packing restaurant orders in -2 degrees in the barn. (Thank goodness for wool clothing!) To coming up with some imaginative solutions to deal with the cold (re washing veg in the walk-in cooler as it was much warmer and above zero!) Also shout out to our neighbours for plowing the road and pulling our crews cars out (thanks @emmaleafarms ) Not the best week to have our tractors in the shop 🤷🏻‍♀️ Us west coasters don’t have to deal with the cold and snow often but when it does come, it kinda throws a wrench in things and all around team work, it’s what makes it all work out smoothly in a week like this!
In another round of Farm Fit (Crossfit for 👩🏼‍🌾) Isabelle and Allie were putting an extra layer on the sprouting brocc and cauli. (Goose and I for moral support and the v. important Instagram documentation) Fingers crossed they make it through this upcoming cold spell.
He’s 1 🥳 And heads up this is a straight up doula appreciation post, one year later... I am forever grateful for @anydaynowbirthservices for sticking through it with me. The day Gus was born was the only day she had something important on the the books and I was dreading 8am, after being by my side the last 17 hours, she had to leave and her sub to come (an equally awesome doula, I am sure of it). All I know is Sarah worked a miracle and knew I needed her support and stayed with me and played a big part in giving me the birth that felt right given the circumstances (of being at a hospital and on a no food no water order etc etc) Also grateful for my midwife who let me ride it out and the nurses who made it all seamless, oh yea and to the guy who got me into this, thanks love💛 And why am I sharing this? I don’t know, maybe it’s because birth matters and even 365 days after I still well up thinking about it.
Why is Mathilde smiling? New prop trays were delivered today 🥳 After years of single use (or maybe 2-3 year use) we invested (big bucks 😳) into these new trays that have a 10+ year life. I won’t say it’s not tough investing into something that has at least a 7+ year payoff but it’s certainly one that mama earth will be proud of and that is aligned with what we do here at Cropthorne. We can’t wait to seed some baby 🌱 🌱🌱 into theme later this month once we really kick off the 2020 year with our first seeding! #wheredoesthewintergo #whatoffseason
What a gem of year
Eat local y’all! Nice work Cropthorne crew, the bounty is strong on solstice. So grateful for the fields in which this bounty comes from, the hands that harvest it and the folks that it eat it.
Holy moly time flies! This photo popped up from 9 years ago. When we had just a single stall at the winter market, no market help and just one employee to help with the harvest. No kids, no partner, and no idea where I or the farm was going! Our single stall has grown to 4 and I never imagined the farm would grow to what it has, including all the staff that have been a part of it all. Feeling pretty grateful for all the support to be able to grow my dreams to this💫
Hey Vancouver, Only a few more weeks of this gem @lehmanncrysta She'll be repping Cropthorne tomorrow at the winter farmers market. Since 2015, Crysta has been a huge part of our farm, starting of as a farm hand and now as co-assistant manager. She is a total pleasure to work with and her passion for life is infectious. While she's not gone yet, I can't help but tear up thinking of Cropthorne without her and I know lots of other people will miss her too so come on down and give this gal a big ol' hug before she's off to travel the world.
Ohhhhh just another day on the farm, Adan and Martin bringing in the January King Cabbage. Today the crew spent the morning in 2 degree sleet preparing for the cold weather that is about to hit later this week. I am at a lost for words about how much our crew means to me. It’s hard with little kids, I’m around inconsistently. I want to be there more but I seem to get the bare minimum office work done. I can totally rationalize it but doesn’t feel great as I’m driving off to preschool and they are out there getting ‘er done. So just in case it wasn’t obvious, Sylvia, Crysta, Adan, Isabelle, Jenna, Mathilde, Martin and Allie are doing amazing at harvesting all the things. As for me, I know it’s the long game. I have the rest of my life to farm full on and if for a few years I’m out of it a bit, it’s not only ok but necessary to raise the next gen, but bah looking forward to some dirt under the nails again. #musingsfromafarmingmama
Just a reminder now that November is here, the @cropthornefarmstand is only open on SATURDAYS from 10-3 until December 21 🥕🍠🥦🥔
Always nice to get away and always nice to come back to this magic. I didn’t grow up going anywhere tropical or to Disneyland, I never pinned for those trips I just knew our family did things different. Instead our family holidays were full of road trips to northern Saskatchewan or the Alberta foothills or the Peace. Car camping, listening to hours of CBC radio, fishing and being out in nature as much as possible. So going to Hawai’i felt totally luxurious and strange, the good kind of strange though! I don’t think Hawai’i will be an annual pilgrimage but what a beautiful place in the world to check out for a few days.
This past season has been like no other. While being self employed makes maternity leave for me impossible, I knew for my own mental health and to really enjoy the first year with #minimega I would scale back what I would do at the farm this season. Isabelle and Crysta who’ve been co-managing the day to day stuff this year have been amazing as well as the team as a whole, to the point that I felt a bit redundant whenever I could submerge myself back into the day to day rhyme of the farm. It is a terrific problem to have, to have a crew who can get it all done although I am desperate to get my hands in the soil again and to get back to work full time. I know babies don’t keep and I’ll cherish this year for the extra moments with my family and am so grateful to our crew for letting me step back and even sneak a trip to Hawai’i!✨✨✨