8 1/2 Acres
6776 Somenos Rd. V9L 5Z3 Duncan, BC, Canada

A couple of Hubbard squash got the chop this morning. Find these plus: whole hubbard, kabocha squash pumpkins, kale, parsnips, and non gmo pasture raised eggs at the Duncan Farmer's Market. Here until 2 PM. Thanks folks!

Come and get it! Downtown Duncan until 2 PM. Thanks folks

Farmstand is open until 6 pm today. Stocked with: carrots, daikon, turnips, rutabagas, kale, parsley, german butter potatoes, various squash, black radish, and non gmo eggs. Thanks folks!

Don't let the sunshine fool you. The first frost and freezing temperatures have hit the farm. What this means: farm water is off, remaining harvests are once a week for weekend markets, farmstand is now open Sundays only 11-6. Also it's time to: roll up the irrigation lines, feed the soil for the next growing season, and plug away at the winter build projects. Rest: well that will come later but is on the horizon.

Busy harvesting today for the Duncan Farmers' Market and Caroline's online shop. Reminder: the market is open at 10am tomorrow, not 9am. Up island folks: link for Caroline's shop for Sunday pickup or delivery https://openfoodnetwork.ca/golden-greens-farm/shop

1600 garlic in the ground yesterday. Day off today. No farmstand

All this plus non gmo pasture raised eggs found at the market until 2 PM today. Thanks folks!

Autumnal abundance at the Duncan Farmer's Market until 2PM today. Find us by the stage in city square thanks folks!

Come on down to the Duncan Farmer's Market tomorrow to find lots of delicious Concord grapes and other fruits, fungi, and vegetables at 8 1/2 Acres tent by the stage in the square. Open from 9:00 until 2:00 Saturday. Hope to see you there and thank you for supporting the local foods!

Happy first day of autumn. With rains hitting tomorrow I have spent a couple days cracking into as much soil as I can to get winter cover crop seeds started. I will be wrestling with the bcs beast again today and spreading a wonderful mix of seeds to protect the soil and add biomass for next year. Most times nature provides a great motivator to put in some physically demanding work. I continue to be accountable to this soil and feel a great conflict when I use the tiller. All is an opportunity for learning and I will be starting my transition to permaculture in a handful of beds next season. More exciting news for next growing season to come...

Autumnal abundance found at the Duncan Farmer's Market today until 2PM. Grateful to my partner Stacie and my friend Hanna for helping out this exhausted farmer with harvest. Hope to see some kind folks soon and thank you for supporting local.

https://openfoodnetwork.ca/golden-greens-farm/shop Chemainus, Ladysmith, Saltair, Mt. Sicker area folks: find these beauts listed on Golden Greens online shop linked above. Along with lots of other local foods from these soils and soils grown on by Caroline and Fabian. Shop open until Noon on Saturday for Sunday delivery or pickup. Carrots also headed to our farmstand and the Duncan Farmer's Market. Thanks folks!

Don't normalize the Anthropocene, Be sure to tell your children that this is not normal. Make sure you tell yourself too, while you're at it. None of my family,... or the elders I've asked, have stories of times where the sky went dark due to fires or stories of times when we couldn't breathe. I know some old legends that talk of this, but that's in relation to volcanoes many many generations ago. Not an annual occurrence. Everyday I get more upset by this phrase "the new normal" I get that there is a virus and we have to change things to remain physically distant, and I am all for that. But, I want to make it clear that it's not normal. These fires, the droughts, and the virus, have all touched my forests, my community, and my family, no one has been safe. But, this is new, this didn't happen before. Even when I was a boy in the 80's the river was still clean and the cedars were still green. So I work hard to remind my kids that these things never happened before they were born. We may feel hopeless. We're shut inside, because outside there is toxic smoke and a deadly virus, by all means we're not happy. But we must remember not to normalize this. We must call our communities to action, we must make smarter choices, we must eat the rich and redistribute the wealth. End stage capitalism is killing not only our planet, but it's killing us. So take the advice of the forests and let us use this ash as fertilizer for a new chance to make things right. We've only got one planet, and we can't keep letting the few in power destroy our only home. #myexistenceisresistance #salishfire #cowichanstrong

Dream harvest team yesterday during a time when the earth is gasping for breath. Find the gifts from the soil at the Duncan Farmer's Market today until 2 pm.

Autumnal harvest morning. You will be able to find the first of the winter squash kin at the Duncan Farmer's Market tomorrow. Plus: summer squash, first fall carrots, beets, fennel, salad mix, lettuce mix, kale, fresh herbs, sieglinde potatoes, red russian garlic, cherry tomatoes, heritage apples and other goodies...nom nom. Thanks in advance for supporting local.

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