Closing August 28th for 2011!
Limited Fruit in U-Pick

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Our 2011 U-Pick season has come to a close and we know we were blessed with a bountiful crop, good weather and kind customers. We thank all the families and friends who came to our home to pick saskatoons and to spend time with their loved ones in our little bit of paradise. Every year our crop gets bigger and better and we hope you will plan on returning again every August to pick your own saskatoons.

Many of you saw our new sorting system on the farm and we want to remind you that we have frozen saskatoons for sale year round. We are also able to provide families with a choice of grade of saskatoons for various purposes. We always endeavour to have our premium ready-to-eat berries on hand, but if you are a home wine-maker or jam maker, we do have on hand this year other grades of saskatoons that might be what you want. For example, for wine production we have our super-sweet "softs" which are dark berries, loaded with juice and sugar. Give us a call to discuss your needs.

Please don't hesitate to follow us on Facebook as we will post there on a regular basis to let you know what is happening on our farm and what Farmer's Markets we are attending. Please accept our sincere thanks for coming out to our farm and we look forward to seeing you in 2012.

In exchange for living in a beautiful place like Alberta, we have to be prepared to face some interesting weather as horticulturalists and farmers.  Farmers always seem to complain about the weather, but there is no other “uncontrolled variable” like weather in any other business.  It means we must be resilient, flexible and prepared.  Fortunately saskatoons are resilient and flexible and being prepared for the weather is our challenge as growers, and we do try! 

In spite of the constant winter (not punctuated by those lovely totally melting Chinooks), our saskatoons are looking terrific and if anything they have benefitted by not undergoing the freeze-thaw cycle.  We hope to have a normal amount of moisture on the farm this year (believe it or not we were under average here for the past 2 years!) and we expect the saskatoons to slowly awake from their winter slumber over the next month.



The blossoms should be amazing and take a look at this picture from 2010.  Our oldest saskatoons are now 8 years old (still very young) and are still very actively growing, so for those of you who have come out over the past 2 years you should see yet again another burst of growth and loads of fruit.  We still have frozen ready-to-eat saskatoons available for sale and as it will be 3 months before you can pick fresh ones, do not hesitate to contact us to have local fruit at hand.  We eat them on our breakfast cereal every day in addition to baking them in muffins & pies or whipping them up in smoothies.  Excellent flavor and nutrition for the entire family and teaching our kids to select a wide variety of fruits and veggies to eat on a daily basis is a life-long gift from parent to child!

Feel free to drive by the farm to look at the rows and rows of blossoms later in May – we are not open for any activities, but if you are in the area, photos are definitely in order! 

We expect a bumper crop this year so plan on coming out, pack a picnic lunch, and bring your friends and family.  You can throw a blanket on the ground between the rows for the little ones to play on as many parents of young children and babies have done before.  See you in the summer and keep in touch with Facebook and Twitter.