Svetec Farms

  Well this is my first time doing a post and I just want to thank my beautiful wife Jenny for all her hard word making this web site.  She has done something so amazing I can't stop thanking her for what she has done and continues to work hard at.  
  We are gearing up for another great year of producing some of the best organic food in the area.  All our beef is raised on dry hay in the winter months and grass pasture in the summer.  All our poultry is being fed the very best in organic grai...
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It's been a week of sunshine.  Zucchini's almost a foot tall and flowering undering the row covers and low tunnels that Dubois have been helping us with.  Spinach is looking good, as well as the kale.  Beans are slowly coming, and I have been planting all week long.

Everything takes time.  To get the land ready to plant, first I have to bust up the soil with the chisel plow .  Then I loosen the soil further with the tiller.  Finally I pass through the soil with the 2550 Plastic Mulch Layer, wh...
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As a farmer, I have seen this before.  Rain almost every day in April.  Not a farmer's favourite, for sure.  Usually, the guys are out planting, or at least turning up the soil, by April 15th.  Not this year.  Last month I tried.  The soil was still frozen.

Been planting  just under 20,000 strawberries this week in cold, wet soil.  Sun is supposed to stay this week, and I start planting the cold crops today.  Hopefully we'll be ready to launch first week of June.  We'll see.  That's just how i...
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Well, it's April 28th and it's windy out there.  The greenhouse is growing nicely.  There's lots of things growing for transplants, as well as some greens growing right in the ground (turnips, lettuce, kale, collards).  All of our organic transplants are doing quite qwell in the greenhouse.

With winds at 90/km, the boys are out in the field dumping dirt on the plastic to keep it from flying away.

Next week, weather permitting, we start planting strawberries.  10,000 come this Wed.

We are trying ...

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At 5:40 on Thursday morning, Jenny and I were slowly waking and discussing the next phase of planting season.  We had just made a huge order with Rekkers, a local greenhouse, and were both wondering what kind of manpower would be needed to get the job done.  The kids strolled in around 6 and did their usual dive between the covers as Jenny and I kept working on the details of how we would get those plants in.  Would we use raised beds?  Mulch?  What plants needed to get in the ground first?  ...
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Planting 20 acres of produce can be an overwhelming task.  It almost makes putting in 19,000 strawberry bushes seem  easy. 

To plant this year's all-natural produce, we have to get the soil ready, organize all the seed, get the planter ready, attach the right seed rollers, mark the fields with the right markers, and then hope for great weather to do so.  This is our first year planting produce. 

Usually I buy my seed in tons, load it into the seed drill or corn planter and just plant.  Rather...
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Out on the tractor, getting the fields ready and loving it.  Potatoes go in today with our new crew.  Enjoying this amazing weather and gearing up for a great season

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