Blog
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What It Is Like to Get a Vegetable CSA Box from Maple Park Farm
Picture this. It is a Thursday in July. You pull up to Moonshine Cafe in Tofield, or Tasty's at River Rock in Ryley, or CrossFit Sherwood Park. You walk inside...
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What You Can Still Direct Seed in Your Alberta Zone 3 Garden Right Now.
Your Alberta Garden Season Isn't Over. Here's What You Can Still Plant It has been a hard stretch for Alberta gardeners. The rain and flooding across Beaver County and the...
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What's in a Maple Park Farm CSA Box and Why It Might Be The Best Thing You Do This Summer
Picture this: it's a Thursday in late July. You pull up to Tasty's at River Rock in Ryley, the Moonshine Cafe in Tofield, or Crossfit Sherwood Park, and there is...
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When the Rain Has Other Plans: What We're Building While We Wait
The fields are still too wet to transplant, but we are not sitting still at Maple Park Farm. Kent and Ty are building something new, a customer-facing raised bed area...
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What to Do With Your Containers and Planters After Heavy Rain in Alberta
Your Patio Planters Took a Hit This Week. Here's How to Help Them Recover Three days of heavy rain is a lot for any garden to handle, but container plants...
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What to Do in Your Alberta Garden After Heavy Rain
What to Do in Your Alberta Garden After Heavy Rain If you planted over Victoria Day weekend, or any time in the last couple of weeks, you have been watching...
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How to Build a Beautiful and Productive Patio Garden This Summer
The best gardens do two things at once. They look stunning, and they feed you. Late May in Alberta is the perfect moment to think about this. Your tomatoes...
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Companion Planting for Alberta Gardeners. What to Grow Next to Your Tomatoes and Peppers.
The right neighbours make all the difference in your Alberta garden. Maple Park Farm's guide to companion planting. What to grow next to your tomatoes and peppers, and why it...
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Why You Should Be Growing Peppers in Your Alberta Garden This Year
Tomatoes get all the attention, and they deserve it. But if you have been walking past the pepper bench without stopping, we would like to change that. Peppers are one...
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The Best Tomatoes to Grow in Alberta. Cherry, Slicers and Containers
Victoria Day weekend is Alberta's unofficial garden starter gun, and at Maple Park Farm, it's one of our favourite weekends of the year. If you are heading to the greenhouse...
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Celebrate National Wave Day at Maple Park Farm!
This Sunday, May 3rd, we are celebrating National Wave Day right here in the greenhouse! Join us for two quick, casual talks at 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM where we...
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How to Prepare Your Garden for Winter (and Set It Up for Success Next Year)
A few simple fall gardening steps can make all the difference next spring. Discover how to pull weeds, enrich your soil, and protect your Zone 3 garden for the season...
