Now is the time to plant your strawberries for production in April of 2015. We just have gotten ours planted and we have about 150 plants available for our farm friends to purchase. They are 50 cents each and will be sold first come first served so if you would like some don't delay, come on by the farm!

   I read a great article a couple of weeks back about why organic strawberry plants are impossible for farmers to find in bulk. (You can find a specimen plant, but finding trays of organic tips has become impossible.) The article explained why it has become so difficult to find organic plants. The official organic rules allow growers to purchase non-organic plants and as long as they grow them out organically they can call them organic. All they have to do is say that organic tips were not available to them to receive this exception. Since ordinary tips are half the money of organic tips all the large growers have gone to buying ordinary tips in order to save thousands of dollars. So now most of the tip growers in Canada have ceased to produce organic plants because no one is buying them. This is why if you have ever searched for organic strawberry plants they are nearly impossible to find. 

   The plants we are selling came from non-organic mother plants when they came out of Canada, but our supplier tips them down and grows the plants without the interventions of commercial sprays or fertilizers. If you are like me, you wish everything would just be organic, but unfortunately when you have to rely on a commercial system that is very devious there is only so much we can do.

   We have three different varieties: Albion, Radiance and San Andreas. I chose these because they are the varieties that are sweeter and more desired by us small growers.

Come on by the farm and get some plants!

Daniel