Dear Nanaimo-ians, After many years of getting to know you better through our booth at the fabulous Bowen Road Farmers’ Market, we’d like to take our relationship to the next level. Specifically, we’d like to offer you our vegetable delivery … Continue reading
We’ve wanted to offer a winter CSA program for years. Our spring-summer-fall CSA members have told us how hard it is to return to mainstream produce in the grocery stores when CSA season ended. And we know how hard it … Continue reading
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After six years of growing food we’ve learned that different crops thrive in different years, depending on the weather. So far, 2014 is The Year of Berries. It caught us by surprise this June. Suddenly our lush green plants had … Continue reading
It’s a beautiful Saturday and you have someone you want to entertain: friends, family, yourself. You’re in luck. The Duncan Farmers Market runs from 9am to 2pm every Saturday through the summer months, and it’s a wonderful place to shop, … Continue reading
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It’s too bad these pages don’t have a scratch-and-sniff feature. If they did, you’d be able to huff that warm, oxygen-rich smell of tomato plant leaves. I inhale that incredible smell every time I peek into one of our seedling … Continue reading
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Do you love reading? Do you love eating local, organic vegetables, conveniently delivered to your doorstep? Let’s put those two loves together into a tasty love sandwich and raise some money for Literacy Now Cowichan. The Auction Prize: 1 Full … Continue reading
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When we bought our 10 acres of pasture in 2007, we never thought we’d use all the land. But six years later, thanks to our customers and farm supporters, we’d expanded our production to the point where we were using … Continue reading
In order for us to grow more food, Makaria Farm will be moving from our 10 acre property to a much larger acreage over the next few years. This transition involves installing a well, hydro and irrigation lines, as well as … Continue reading
Shaw TV’s Go Island South team has produced a wonderful spotlight on our vegetable delivery CSA program, featuring our partnership with the super-fab Cowichan Recyclists. Thanks so much to Meg and her Shaw peeps for helping us spread the word … Continue reading
In 2009, Brock and I hosted a series of workshops at Makaria Farm on how to grow wheat and other grains on a garden scale. Over 50 families from all over the islands participated in the Island Grains workshops. We … Continue reading
When we moved to Cowichan Station to start Makaria Farm back in the spring of 2007, our goal was to be as self-sufficient as possible. We thought “success” would mean a meal where we’d produced all the ingredients ourselves, from … Continue reading
It’s almost 2012. If the Mayans are correct and everything goes bottoms up this year, then it’s a good thing I’ve spent 2011 tooling up on my practical skills. There are a few essentials to surviving an apocalypse (if it’s … Continue reading
