Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK Because many SPIN farms, including mine, just look like a really big garden, I often get asked the difference between a gardener and a backyard farmer. To turn your garden into a business, you need to grow a wide variety...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK Now that the season is in full swing I’m hearing from beginning SPIN farmers who have their relays in play. One recently wrote: “For loose leaf lettuces and spinach, I know they will produce for a long while after they...
Courtesy of Abby P., Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics, Woolwine VA What about making some spinach “pesto” ? You can make pesto with just about any greens including wild and weeds like young lambs quarter, sorrel, pigweed, purslane. Use a food processor to make pesto base w/ olive oil....
Courtesy of Paul, H., Victory Garden Vegetables, Cobourg, ON For me, it’s more the texture of the spinach leaves that change when it bolts, not so much it getting bitter. They’re not as succulent as younger spinach leaves are. It also becomes less lucrative to harvest because the leaves of bolting...
