09/15/2026
❄️ Well… the frost arrived a little earlier than expected. ❄️
On Friday, we shared that Raven Roots wouldn’t be setting up our Saturday veggie stand so we could spend the day preparing the farm for the below-zero temperatures forecast for Saturday night.
Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans. We woke up Saturday morning to -3°C and one very heavily frosted farm (and again Sunday morning).
Frost can look pretty beautiful, especially on mornings like this. But for a small vegetable farm, a hard frost can change things incredibly quickly. Some crops, like kale, cabbage, and our root vegetables, can handle the cold remarkably well. Others aren’t nearly so lucky.
Our zucchini, pumpkins and winter squash took a hard hit. We had thankfully done a bit of a test the night before and covered a few rows, and thankfully SOME SURVIVED! The pumpkins and squash have been harvested and moved into our seed starting house. Over the next few days we’ll be sorting through everything, watching for frost damage and figuring out what can be sold at the last two markets.
This is one of those parts of farming that customers don’t always get to see. Months of planting, watering, weeding, harvesting and tending a crop can change in one cold night. You can watch the forecast, make plans and think you still have another day, and then wake up to a frozen landscape.
Despite our disappointment, we are happy to share that we still have LOTS of veggies to bring to our last 2 farmers’ markets!!!
Carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, beets, lettuce, kale, Swiss chard, green onions, along with some zucchini, acorn squash and pumpkin.
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So please come see us at the Valemount Farmers’ Market on Thursday September 17 from 4-7pm, and pick up some fresh local produce!
Thank you for your continued support! 💚
Raven Roots Farm
Fresh, Local and Full of Flavour
