garden
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Hnatiuk Gardens YouTube Channel Launch
Good morning to our friend, the classic Alberta Clipper. It’s a little chilly to work in the greenhouse today, with a nice layer of sticky snow covering it and struggling to get up to 10C, but we’ve got everything growing under wraps at a nice toasty 23C. It is hard to imagine that last year,… Continue reading
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New Camera, New Journey: Sharing the Life on the Farm
First, welcome to any new readers from the Selkirk Horticultural Society. Over the last couple years since I’ve started doing workshops and farm tours, one one of the things that stands out to me is how difficult it is to communicate just how much life you can attract to a farm or garden, and the… Continue reading
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Starting the Greenhouse and The Tomato Gap
Yes, its a bit early this year, and that’s because of our hoop house. With only 6 weeks to go until the target transplant date of April 15th, we’ve got to get our Tomatoes and Peppers going earlier this year. It’s always a nice day when finally, after months of winter, you can walk to… Continue reading
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What’s Up For the 2026 Season?
Just a few days away from starting the 2026 season, the seeds have all arrived, and we’ll be getting the greenhouse going a bit earlier than usual, for this is the first year we have our new Hoop House ready to go. It’s hard to imagine the “before times” now, even though a year ago… Continue reading
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Documenting Biodiversity on the Farm
This summer I’m going to start a new project, documenting the biodiversity of what we have at the farm. I’m working towards doing it in such a way that I can share what I find with you. What that will look like exactly, I’m not sure. But I’m hoping to invest in some new gear… Continue reading
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Drafting the Season Schedule
I’ve finished my first draft seeding schedule for 2026, which is way ahead of my usual timeline for doing so. We’re aiming to go hard for early spring production, and I didn’t want the distraction of needing to complete this in March. While this process has been streamlining itself and every year gets faster to… Continue reading
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Our Little Orchard Story
***sorry to anyone trying to comment, it seems comments were held for review, but I’ve changed the settings so hopefully that doesn’t happen anymore*** About a year after we started the no-till experimental acre in 2018, I got the idea to start planting apple trees. I was pretty ‘green’ at the whole professional farming thing… Continue reading
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Pushing for Spring Production
New year, new season, new schedule. As I always like to say, this is the best time of year for farming…because nothing has gone wrong yet. It’s all the purity of the platonic farming season, where everything grows perfectly, everything goes to plan, harvests are abundant, and perhaps most importantly, there are no weeds. I’m… Continue reading
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Looking For Your Suggestions and Comments!
I published the first complimentary blueberry juice on January 15 2023, so in a short while I’ll be starting the 4th year of this writing experiment. I do enjoy doing this, just having a space to engage in the process of writing and offload whichever problems I’m working through, or compiling some photos. I don’t… Continue reading
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Beautiful Rhizosheaths
After quadrupling our cover crop area this year and changing a few operating procedures, it was super exciting to leave those cover crops digesting in the last weeks of fall (more on the cover crops and treatment this season here). However the cover crop story for this season didn’t stop there. Yes they were shredded… Continue reading
About Graham
Graham is an ecologist-farmer from Canada working on educating about the wonders and beauty of the natural world, and how we can design biodiverse food production systems.
