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Growing from the Ground Up
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Fall Start Up
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See Below for delivery dates!
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How Much to Grow for a year's supply of food
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New Products for this Fall
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September
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Honey, Pork and Jams
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Forever Bee
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Here’s some of the ways Forever Bee is a part of my life:
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- I love drinking coffee with Apple Pie Honey.
- We put Bee Pollen on our cereal and yogurt A LOT.
- There are lippy balms all over my house (thank goodness they don’t ruin a washing machine!)
- We decorate our Christmas Tree with handmade Honeystix Ornaments.
- I like to light a candle when I’m up late trying to be productive.
- I get to tour our province while delivering right to your door. (This is the BEST during Halloween and Christmas! when everything’s decorated!)
… and so many more ways. Stick around this weekend while we talk about some of them!
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Whispering Wind Farms
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We at Whispering Wind Farms, are proud to raise one of the only true grazing breed of pig called Kunekunes. Our Kunekunes are 90% forage with just a fraction of grain that other heritage pasture pork breeds consume at only 2lbs of grain per day! The rest of their diet consists of lush pasture and in Fall/Winter dairy quality second cut alfalfa hay. The meat is dark red with marbling throughout giving it flavor, tenderness and juiciness. Due to Kunekunes majority of feed intake being forage based, their fat has a low melting point which is like nothing that we had tasted from any other swine breed, it literally melts in your mouth. What makes our product different: Read More!
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Jams and Preserves
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Gramma D's Preserves
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Here at Gramma D’s Preserves I make jams and jellies and have been doing so for over 40 years! My favorite times are when my grandchildren come over and we have toast and jam together. So I decided it was time to spread the joy and here are my jams for you and your family!
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Nothing better than toast and jam that Gramma made!
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New Variety Meat Products
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Lamb - Lone Valley Farm in Arrowwood
Animals are Grass Fed and hormone free!
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AND... Free Samples!
For this week Honeystix from Forever Bee and from Herma from Van Garderen Ranch 2 products All Purpose Flour and Millers Bran.
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The Honeystix are made with raw honey, Apple being one of her flavours. We have been baking up a storm ourselves making bran muffins with Herma's flour and bran. We are not going back to store bought bran anymore. Flour either! There is no going back now!
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Deliveries and Pick Up Location
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Please see the site for Delivery Details Here
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connect@growingfromthegroundup.org
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Pick Up Location In Calgary
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1401 10 Ave SE, Calgary AB T2G 0X1
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LETHBRIDGE
Deliveries have been changed to Thursdays instead.
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Calgary products are now available to Lethbridge customers.
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Deliveries will be every 2 weeks on the same week
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New Cut Off time on Sundays
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Our cut off time on Sunday is 6pm
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for both orders and payment. We changed it because it gives us more time to let the farmers know which orders are a go for the upcoming week!
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We still want to provide service and support to our community that wants fresh farm food. So what we have come up with is delivering to a single location and we are looking into developing something with organizations like Skip the Dishes so you can contact them to arrange for delivery to your home. You will need to pay the driver. Alternatively you can pay the volunteers to deliver to your home if you cannot make the pick up. We are suggesting a $25 charge.
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We are estimating to be at the pick up location for 2 hours on Wednesdays between 11:30am to 1:30pm
If you cannot pick up your food at this time:
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- You will need to contact us and we will pass your food onto a volunteer.
- You will need to pay the volunteer for their time and gas, and to make delivery arrangements.
- You can also arrange that a friend picks up your order. Again you will need to let us know so we are not giving your groceries away to hungry people!
- There are no refunds for orders not picked up.
For Customers who were with us before July 13th of this year, we are honouring a $10.00 delivery fee. New customers we are asking $25.00 to deliver to you. Call us if you need to discuss it. Thanks. For people who we were delivering to as they are on route, in Okotoks, De Winton and so on, these are also included in the $10.00
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If there is a volunteer who will deliver your groceries to you and they negotiate a different price with you that is less than the $25, that is A-OK. Feel free to negotiate that.
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If you have any suggestions or comments please contact us at Email Us
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This is a community endeavour and your thoughts are super important!
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OUR MARKETS ARE A LITTLE LESS EXOTIC THAN THIS....BUT
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A CLUB!
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We are going to be making the
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Farmer's Food Basket CSA Club
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If everything goes well, we hope to launch this just after the 21st September.
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Farmers and Producers will be asked to sign our agreement
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and the club fees will be waived. There will be a nominal amount
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for customers to be paid quarterly.
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Russian Grandma’s Pickled Tomatoes
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Did you know that you can actually pickle tomatoes? In the stores we’re so used to seeing jars and jars of pickles but my Russian grandma pickled tomatoes. This goes back to the old days when canning and preserving tomatoes was a necessity.
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How to Harvest, Cure, and Store Potatoes
The best potatoes for storage are late maturing types or a second crop sown later in the season. This is because potatoes will only last about 6 weeks post harvest when stored above 60ºF. During mid-summer root cellars, garages, and other storage areas will generally not be cold enough for them to keep long term.
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No root cellar? There are a number of alternative options for storing potatoes.
#1 Storage Pit
#2 Clamp
#3 Garage
#4 Basement
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