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Welcome
Michael Ableman is a farmer, author, and photographer and a recognized practitioner of sustainable agriculture and proponent of regional food systems. He has written several books and numerous essays and articles, and lectures extensively on food, culture, and sustainability worldwide. Michael is currently farming at the Foxglove Farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, home of The Center for Arts, Ecology & Agriculture.
"Ableman
is a gracious rebel who knows that industrialized
farming wrings
the life out of both soil and communities.
His joy in stewardship and in people
celebrates a psychic
sustainability that won't appear on spreadsheets."
- Sierra Magazine
What's in Season...
Winter on the island was long and intense. Up on the mountain the ground was covered with snow for several months, five feet at times, enough to collapse one of our greenhouses.
Winter’s challenges have now been replaced with a warm, very dry, very busy spring. The seasonal transistions here are far from subtle, the drama that goes on in our fields and orchards and forest is both beautiful and humbling.
The first of the asparagus have pushed through, salad greens, spinach, strawberries, radish, arrugula are close behind. Overwintered carrots sweetened by months in cold ground will grace our spring market display along with beets, rhubarb, parsley, and potatoes.
Twelve varietiues of tomatoes are in the ground, as well as fifteen different sweet and hot peppers, eggplant, cucmber, sweet corn, melons, filet beans, and winter and summer squash .
The blueberries and raspberries are leafing out, as are our diverse orchards of cherry, plum, pear, peach, aprocot, chestnut, apple, and quince.
We have opened up another ten acres of pasture and converted it to the production of grain, lentils, peas, and alfalfa. We hope this will provide the community with a more critical piece of their diet whle adding diversity to our product mix, and improving our crop rotatiion and soil fertility program.
We look forward to seeing you on the farm or at the markets this summer and fall, and providing you with food fresh from the fields of Foxglove Farm.
For a copy of our weekly availability list with prices and detailed product and delivery information please e mail or call 250-537-1989.
Michael Ableman Spring 2009
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