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...

Phew - it's a hot one out there! Our shaded thermometer is reading 32 degrees at the moment and last I checked the greenhouse was at 47...

Hi folks - if you're a CSA member, we hope you've been enjoying your share so far! It's been fun doing the first few harvests, and even...

By now, you might be familiar with the fact that Spring Tide falls into the category of a biointensive small-scale farm. Small-scale...

With our Community Supported Agriculture program starting next week, the farm is a flurry of activity as we try to wrap up our big spring...

Hello from the field! Since Raphaëlle posted about a month ago, we've shifted gears from tidying and organizing to making garden beds,...