I recently spoke, appropriately distanced and outdoors, with Anna Helmer. Anna mentioned (with a teasing tone), that @Therocketnarcissist and I should share a recipe on The Farm Story Podcast. I don't think she expected a "Yes!" with such enthusiasm. Anyway, …
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Thoughts on plastic bag bans from an organic potato farmer
Clamorous demands for a plastic bag ban at Vancouver farmers’ markets have resulted in… a (pending) plastic bag ban at market. The association that runs the markets at which we have been selling potatoes for over 25 years recently announced …
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Why the Farmers Market is more than just a shopping experience
In the spring, I sprinkled a small mason jar of biodynamic preparation 500 under my fruit trees and around my garden beds, just as Anna Helmer had shown me. There didn’t seem to be a very specific science to it, …
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The Biodynamic Farming Experience for the Celestially-Challenged, chapter 2
Hello and welcome to Chapter 2 of The Biodynamic Farming Experience for the Celestially-Challenged. It is a partly-formed, poorly-articulated and over-hyphenated chronical of a particular journey, which is not quite the right word because it suggests the presence of a …
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Farm Story: The Biodynamic Ice-Break
Would you mind if we talked about Biodynamic farming? There. That’s how you keep your readership small. Those of you still with me have fought through eye-glaze and eye-roll and have resisted page turn. You will notice that even I …
Mutual Appreciation: the farmers’ market secret sauce
The bell rings to start the market day. Relentless and demoralizing rain has been falling since the tents came out of the trailer and we began the set-up, two hours ago. The gutters now strung up …
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It’s time to talk Farm Fashion
The time has come for a column on farm fashion. All the chick farm columnists eventually get around to a “what to wear” piece, don’t they? This one is all about what happens when fashion is slave to function and …
How spring taught the farmer that she was meant to be a farmer, before she realized it herself.
Like most non-farmers, I used to assume that nothing really happens on a farm during the winter. It took me around 5 years of working on one to realize that might not be true. In my case, during the early …
Anna Helmer’s Farm Story continues
Deep winter confessions from Pemberton's favourite farmer. Lavish plan-hatching and mild delusion meets work in someone else's root house. (Just don't call it mindless.)
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