We're Back

After allowing the corn a "siesta" in the heat over the last 2 days, we're back in full swing today!  Pete has picked three different varieties of bi-colour today: Navajo, Trinity, and a new to us variety called Sweetness.
He's off to the day job so can't guarantee the "staff" will be able to tell which is which, but from our taste-test at supper last night, all are delicious!  But then again, nothing tastes better than fresh picked, locally grown food this time of year.

We're also cleaning our fresh picked garlic, so be sure to pick up a head or two while it lasts!  And green beans and peas have also just been fresh picked to.

See you at the table!

This is just in!

Good morning corn lovers! There is something exciting happening here this morning at the Dorisdale Farm, and we think that it is the Stalk of the town. We officially have our first corn of the season! It is hard to
be-leaf that we are already at this time of the summer, but with August  just around the corner we are very excited for our favourite season full of our favourite food!

Today we have a bicolour variety, called Trinity, so drop by to pick some up to finish off a great weekend! This is a sneak peek, as we will likely not be selling any corn on Monday or Tuesday, but hope to be selling steadily by later this week!

Our Saturday....

Hot day for garlic picking!  Kids were very glad for a dip or 2 in the pool!  Now onto cleaning garlic in time for corn season to begin!

Tassels everywhere!

What an incredible view we have from the top of the ridge, by the old Port Hope Railway this summer.

Driving by our farm on County Road 2 heading west, if you look to the right just before Hiawatha Line, you can get a small sense of the number of varieties of corn we're growing this year.  It's like a patchwork quilt of colours with each sweet corn variety having a different shade right now of tassels and corn silk...and stalks of varying heights thanks to Mother Nature.  Come on heat that corn loves so much!

(From the corn field, looking south towards County Road 2.)

Keep posted - we're hoping to announce the news of opening for corn, garlic and veggie sales very shortly!

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Knee high around the 1st of July....

Both my Dad, Arnold, and Pete's Dad, Gerald, had tons of sayings related to farming.  Dad was just telling me this spring that his father always said when the poplar tree buds were the size of a mouse's ear, it was time to plant grain.  That was one I hadn't heard before.

The other saying that we hear this time of year is that good corn is "knee high by the 1st of July". Crop reporting this morning by Pete shares the good news that our first sweet corn of 2015 is tasseling. That means we could have sweet corn on the table in about 3 weeks...crossing fingers...and if the weather warms up a bit.  That would mean Dorisdale Corn by the August Civic Holiday.

Our garlic is looking good this year too.  We were just through the patch again this morning for another round of scaping the stragglers!  We have a couple of get-togethers this weekend - hope everyone likes garlic scape pasta salad!

the weeds in the garden are doing exceptionally well too :)  They seem to love heat, cold, dry and wet weather!

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!