2016!

Last year, being our pilot season, was a huge success!  We almost tripled the number of members we were hoping for and donated almost $700 worth of fresh, Organic produce to the the local food bank.  It's with great excitement I open registration for 2016!

This winter Jason and I have been busy starting up our beekeeping operation.  With a lot of luck and hopefully a few skills that I'll pick up through the Kwantlen Beekeeping program, I hope to include honey in your shares this season!  We are starting with 9 hives and plan to experiment with a few different styles of beekeeping.  I will be extra busy this summer during the apprenticeship portion of the program but will do my very best to provide you all with the same great service.  With that news, I will be looking for a working member for the season!  I will let everyone know when I begin accepting applications.

Aside from bees, we will be adapting the structure of the collective a tad.  This season we plan to include any goodies that our members may be growing in their backyards!  So far we have Red Russian garlic and Walnuts on the list!  This is very exciting because it's the beginning of my long term vision for The Honest to Goodness Farm Company as a true community collective.  This does mean, however, that we slip slightly away from our strict Certified Organic motto.  Our main chunk of dirt, Hazelmere Organic Farm is, of course, still Certified Organic and any small Commercial farms that we may supplement from will be Certified Organic.  As for our busy backyard farmers, I will be taking great precautions to ensure anything accepted has been Organically grown.  

On that note, and with great anticipation, I open registration for 2016!

I look forward to catching up with you all!