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We are a small, certified organic market garden located on the beautiful Northumberland Shore. Look for us at the Sackville Farmer’s Market.

We are a small market garden located on the beautiful Northumberland Shore. We are dedicated to using sustainable practices and are certified organic with Atlantic Certified Organic. We also run a community shared agriculture box delivery program in the Amherst area. We also grow a hops for sale to local microbreweries. Visit our website for more details — http://www.wysmykalfarm.ca . You can also find us in twitter

06/07/2026

Good morning! It is warm, but drizzly out there. We had a busy week on the farm. We planted all of our winter squash, and covered them to protect them from the cucumber beetle which is going to emerge any moment. We also planted the leeks. Like the onions, we plant the leeks into a compost mulch. Leeks need a lot of space and fertility, so we plant three rows to a bad instead of four, and space the leeks 6" apart. It still requires a lot of crawling and reaching but feels much faster due to the wider plant spacing. We also finished planting the cherry tomatoes, kept up with our regular weekly seedings and transplantings, and were able to hand w**d a carrot planting and hoe some other crops. Finally, we were delighted to look skyward on Thursday, and see a balloon! The Atlantic Explorer traveled above our farm on its way to Europe. At the time of this writing, it has successfully crossed the Atlantic and is presently above France. What an adventure!

05/31/2026

Good morning! It is still a little cool and overcast out there. This past week has been chilly and wet. We can definitely use the moisture where we still have a deficit from last year, but it still can be challenging to keep up with our plantings with that kind of weather. In addition to our regular seedings, we did thorough w**dings of the greenhouses, and planted eggplants, cucumbers, fennel, and half of the cherry tomatoes. They aren't thrilled to be in an unheated home, but they are hanging in there. We were also able to plant most of our storage cabbages outside. Finally, our greenhouse tomatoes are coming along and there are plenty of tomatoes on the plants. They are still green but will turn red eventually :) Here is a photo of some of them:

05/23/2026

Good morning! It is a little cooler out there this weekend. This week on the farm we did our regular seedings and w**ding, and spent the majority of our time planting onions. We have planted 8 beds, and we have 1 to go. The onions are spaced 3" apart in the row, and we plant four rows per bed. That is 1600 onions or shallots per 100 foot bed! It is a lot of crawling and reaching. Below is a photo of the onions after being planted. You can see our knee impressions at the side of the beds:) The onions are not super happy with the cooler nights, but they should stand up in a few days. We will also hoop them and cover them with insect netting as soon as we can.

05/17/2026

Good morning! It is a beautiful day out there. This week on the farm, we did more seeding, w**ding, and transplanting. We are receiving regular rain, which is helping with germination and crop health. The buckwheat cover crop we seeded a couple of weeks ago is up and is looking good. The leek moths are out at our farm so we need to cover all of our allium crops, and inspect the transplants in the seedling greenhouse before they go out into the field. We prepared four beds for our storage onions. We shovel a layer of compost several inches thick onto the top of each bed. The compost layer acts as a mulch, suppressing w**ds, and retaining moisture. It also provides a biological boost to the soil, the effects of which we can see years later. The down side is that the compost is quite labour intensive to apply, and also can throw off the nutrient balance of the soil if applied too often (we have too much calcium in a lot of our soil from years of seafood compost use). So, we try to strike a balance by applying compost mulch only for certain crops, and rotating those crops to different spots on the farm each year. Here is a photo of the prepared beds:

05/10/2026

Good morning! Happy Mother's Day :) We had some sun and heat and rain last week. This past week on the farm, we continued our greenhouse and outdoor seedlings, and transplanted more crops like broccolini into the field. We w**ded in our larger greenhouses. A traveling tractor mechanic came to our farm and repaired both of the tractors. He was great! Not so awesome are the black flies. They are starting to come out, and that means bug jackets for us. They are a favourite food of the tree swallows so it makes sense that they appear at around the same time. Finally, I set up a monitoring trap for the leek moth at the edge of our garlic planting. It is a triangular prism with a sticky insert. It gets suspended at plant height, and a pheromone lure for leek moths is placed inside. I need to check the trap weekly for leek moths, and if I find one, we deploy the net/row cover over the garlic. We already have a net over most of the garlic as we wanted to protect them before the traps arrived. Hopefully the traps will help us to keep the alliums uncovered for more of the season, which makes them easier to monitor and w**d. Here is a photo of a trap in front of our garlic planting.

05/03/2026

Good morning! It looks like we are going to get some rain today. That is ok with us - we could use it. This week on the farm, we continued with our greenhouse and outdoor seedings. We seeded a buckwheat cover crop in one field block. Our first outdoor carrot planting is up, and germinated well. Our greenhouse tomatoes are flowering and we have been pollinating them daily with an electric toothbrush. We were happy to see some bees out and about on Saturday - they will soon take over the pollination job for us. Finally, the tree swallows have returned. It is always a delight to watch them. We installed their nest boxes and they are starting to claim them already. A favourite box is located right in the middle of the farm yard, perhaps because there is some added security with all of the humans walking about. Here is a photo of a swallow getting ready to start their day.

04/26/2026

Good morning! It is a beautiful day out there. Nice to feel the warmth of the sun after a number of rather chilly days and nights. This week on the farm we continued our greenhouse seedings. We took up the landscape fabric we used for the squash last year. While it is not as amazing for the soil as winter cover crops, leaving landscape fabric in place over the winter prevents erosion, allows water infiltration, and leaves us a nice clean seedbed when we take it up in the spring. Here is a photo of one such area that grew melons last year, and which we seeded to beets, radishes, hakurei, cilantro, dill, and peas this past week. The peas in the foreground were transplanted, which is why they are so far ahead.

04/18/2026

Good morning! It is feeling like spring out there :) Veggies are growing in the greenhouses. This week on the farm, we transplanted some peas. We set up the second caterpillar tunnel, and took up some more landscape fabric. We completed more seedings and potted up our peppers and eggplants in the seedling greenhouse. We reconnected our automatic valves in the greenhouses, which take care of the watering for us. We also planted our greenhouse tomatoes. They are settling into their new home -see below. The big tube in the middle of the greenhouse helps to distribute the warm air from the furnace at night. Finally, thank you to everyone who was able to purchase a farm credit. It is a big help to us in the early season.

04/12/2026

Good morning! It is sunny but cool out there. It was nice to have the warm weather at the end of last week. We had a busy week on the farm. We transplanted broccolini, kale, lettuce, and chard into one of the big greenhouses. We incorporated a winter cover crop and prepped the soil in our tomato greenhouse. We set up a caterpillar tunnel, and began setting up another one. We took up some landscape fabric from last year, to use in another location this year. We were able to complete our first outdoor direct seedings. We seeded carrots, beets, peas, radishes, hakurei, cilantro, and dill. Finally, this is the final week that we be offering farm credit. If you were intending to purchase credit but have not yet done so, this is the week. Below is a photo of three freshly seeded carrot beds with our trusty Jang seeder in the foreground:

04/04/2026

Good morning! It has been a chilly beginning to April. That is ok, everything is doing fine. The seedlings are growing well in the seedling greenhouse, and our transplanted and direct seeded veggies are growing larger in the other greenhouses. The carrots and beets are up; the arugula, mild mustard greens, radishes, salad greens, and spring spinach are growing. Our employee Anthony returned to the farm this week - it has been great to have his help. Here is a photo of the seedlings with the greenhouse tomatoes in the foreground:

Address

1121 Chapman Settlement Road
Amherst, NS
B0L1E0

Telephone

(902) 661-3663

Website

https://wysmykalfarm.ca/

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