Joanne Conan Donates to Cancer care @ 1/2 of all the money received for vegetables by Conan Garden in 2022. Thanks to all of you for your patronage, and thanks to Joanne for being so generous to Cancer Care.
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Author: frank
2022 in Review
Wow!! What a year!!
We had a very successful year and we learned a lot. Probably could have sold double of what we grew, and for that we are very thankful. We learned some new processes and will apply them in 2023.
We are asking for input from all our great patrons to help us plan for next year. If you know that you will come back for more great veggies next year please please please tell us before spring so that we can ensure there will be an ample supply. If there is something you would like us to grow next year, dito, please inform us so that we can accommodate you. This is not a commitment from you by any means, just your wish list that will help us to make sure that we have an idea for the quantities needed for next year.
A simple Email will suffice. conangarden1@gmail.com
We look forward to visiting with all of you in the new year and hope for a great growing season.
Update October 1st 2022
Been a long time since the last post. Been busy trying to make our acreage functional but now things are starting to come together.
First of all we would like to thank all people who have dealt with us in the past 2 years and we want to express our sincerest appreciation for your support in this endeavor.
Now, moving on, we are beginning to get some processes in place in order to reduce the amount of work needed to produce our garden products and each year we are learning new ways to be more efficient. At first we did a lot of work and with limited results, now with the help of certain equipment purchases we have substantially reduced the work load. We have some new ideas for next year that should better serve us to cut some more of that work load.
That being said, we thought we would update you on what’s left for this year:
We still have carrots, tomatoes, lots of potatoes, onions, pumpkins, and a few squash. We are sold out of corn.
We would like to emphasize to all of you, that even though we are not certified organic that we have never used any chemical in this garden “not ever”. That however requires a lot of rototilling in order to keep those pesky weeds away, and a lot of on your hands and knees weed plucking. So far we think it therapeutic, and we hope that that never gets old. Many of the new processes that we have adopted are ways to reduce the weeding needed.
Again we want to thank you for your patronage in the past and look forward to serving you in the future.
PS: If there are any vegetables that you would like next year, that we didn’t grow this year Please Please Please let us know before planting time next year so that we can give that a go!
Sincerely:
Frank & Joanne
Conan Garden just received the Jang Seeders
Good morning all.
Just received my 2 Jang seeders yesterday with all the seed wheels I will need for the coming year. Got to get to the shop and weld up a 3 pth bar so that i can pull em with my tractor.. Still looking for a 1 row potato planter and hope to score one in the near future.
With these seeders there should be no order that I
can’t fullfill
Our Story The Blog page
Hello to all that have taken the time to visit our garden place.
A short intro to our site:
I am Frank and married to Joanne. We have recently moved to Marcelin Sask. to a beautiful 40 acre acreage just East of town. The yard is landscaped and was established 100 years ago, {1919}. There is approx 25 acres of garden space at our disposal to do what we like. We obviously love all aspects of gardening and landscaping and have found our little space of heaven. We sold the house on the property and will be building a new home in this gorgeous yard. The trees are mature an offer a park like setting. But all this work must be done yet and is providing a whole new set of challenges.
About the Garden space:
We have plenty of room for a VERY large garden, Frank has been busy procuring the equipment necessary to plant, cultivate, and harvest, a large garden such as this. That’s where you people come in! We are ready to start planting in Spring of 2020. We do not need a large garden for the two of us and our family. We do however see a trend to good honest home grown vegetables and fruits, within a 60 mile range of the kitchen table. We want to share our good fortune with those that appreciate all the goodness that comes from a local garden. Maybe some of you want to rent some garden space to do your own gardening. Some of you will be happy just knowing that the food you get from us is locally grown, and cared for by people who have a passion for gardening. We will be making Jams and preserves also, remember when you got to taste Grandma’s jams and pickles, this will be the same thing.
Like any farming enterprise, there are the challenges of weather. To offset some of those challenges we had a dugout dug in fall of 2019 and hope that we will have an ample supply of water should the rains be stingy. We have bought or made various equipment to help with the weeding, planting and harvesting. We are ready to start this project and look forward to meeting the people that like us prefer the home grown varieties rather that food brought in from afar in the grocery stores.