Hi everyone! It's about time I introduced myself. I'm Julie, the newest member of the Spring Tide team. I can't tell you how excited I am...

Running a market garden is no small feat as there are lots of moving pieces - fluctuating weather, hundreds of unique customers, several...

Hi folks, Jessie here. My farming season is looking a lot different this year with baby Georgina in the mix. I'm very lucky - my mom has...

After what has been a mostly grey and rainy spring, these last days of sun and warmer temperatures have been greatly appreciated on the...

This is not going to come as a surprise for you but your farmers have been busy! We have been back into farm work since April and since...

The Farm: Spring Tide Farm is a market garden producing certified organic vegetables, cut flowers and honey in Lapland, Nova Scotia. The...

In between two snow storms and ice rains, it seems to be the time for a new blog post! You know winter is the period for us farmers to...

Crispy mornings and cold fingers, beautiful colors, bodies getting lazy… The end of the season is near. We are clearing the last few...

Happy fall equinox to all! We're breaking down all the different squash that we grow, so that you can be as excited about them as we are....

For this week’s post, I thought I would talk to you about numbers - and hopefully not be too boring! Since I’m a farmer, I’ve realized...

Hello everyone! There was a slight chill in the air when I went outside this morning, and as of 11am the thermometer is only reading 16...

You've surely gleaned by now that farming is pretty hard work. It's physically and mentally taxing, but oh so rewarding. It's this time...

Mid-summer brings big vegetable harvests, but it also brings another harvest around here - honey! This is our second year of trying our...

We've been talking a lot about peak harvest season these last couple weeks. The planning for the harvest begins way back with our crop...

In the last blog post Jessie was talking about the harvests increasing in the fields. Well, we definitely have reached the peak! It is a...

We're so relieved to have the heat wave behind us (for now) just in time to start appreciating the big summer harvests. Over this past...

By the time you're reading this I hope we're all sweating a bit less and sighing a (temporary) breath of relief from the extreme heat and...

It's that time of year, our annual garlic harvest party! Join us at the farm on Monday July 29 from 9am-12pm to help us pull and hang our...

An update about life with porcupines and some fennel inspiration

We have reached this moment of the season where all the beds are filled with plants on the farm. We do not have enough space that we can...