Spring planting continues apace, with many seeds now in the ground and early transplanting set to begin this week. So thankful for our stellar team members who are keeping everything on schedule and perhaps even a little ahead!
Cooler weather has finally arrived, bringing with it a few showers. Not enough to make a substantial difference to either the soil moisture or the fire risk, but at least it is something and it will keep the dust down for a few days. We are trying to be optimistic about the forecast and hoping that much more rain will come later this week.
My sister and her family, who live up by Evansburg, have now been evacuated twice and some of their friends in the area have lost their homes. Some 25 000 people have now been evacuated in Alberta and it will take a few days of cooler weather and rain, real rain, to put an end to the fires.
Meanwhile, online idiots and conspiracy theorists, especially prevalent on Facebook, are claiming that the fires have been set by the NDP and its supporters in some twisted attempt to raise fears about climate change and change the outcome of the coming election. This kind of willful stupidity is almost enough to make a decent human despair.
As some of you may have gleaned from Friday's Online Market update, Tamara and I are celebrating our birthdays this week. Together we are celebrating a collective 92 years of life on this beautiful planet. Today is Tamara's birthday and tomorrow will begin my fiftieth (50!) year on earth.
If any of you good folks in our community of supporters wish to do some small kindness for us to celebrate these special days, we would ask that you channel that impulse into spreading the word about our online market to your friends and family in real life, and, if you use them, to your social networks online.
Many of you are consistent and passionate supporters of Blue Mountain, and as such, you are the most valuable, intangible force for the organic growth of our farm business imaginable. Our marketing budget is so small that it is essentially nonexistent, but no amount of marketing money spent on slick and clever campaigns can ever compare to the effectiveness of word of mouth spreading positive stories about a great, locally-owned business.
Thanks for your continued support and encouragement and especially for the little notes, silly jokes and stories you share with us in your comments at ordering or in emails. These things mean so much to us!
Sending big love from our little farm,
K+T
Cooler weather has finally arrived, bringing with it a few showers. Not enough to make a substantial difference to either the soil moisture or the fire risk, but at least it is something and it will keep the dust down for a few days. We are trying to be optimistic about the forecast and hoping that much more rain will come later this week.
My sister and her family, who live up by Evansburg, have now been evacuated twice and some of their friends in the area have lost their homes. Some 25 000 people have now been evacuated in Alberta and it will take a few days of cooler weather and rain, real rain, to put an end to the fires.
Meanwhile, online idiots and conspiracy theorists, especially prevalent on Facebook, are claiming that the fires have been set by the NDP and its supporters in some twisted attempt to raise fears about climate change and change the outcome of the coming election. This kind of willful stupidity is almost enough to make a decent human despair.
As some of you may have gleaned from Friday's Online Market update, Tamara and I are celebrating our birthdays this week. Together we are celebrating a collective 92 years of life on this beautiful planet. Today is Tamara's birthday and tomorrow will begin my fiftieth (50!) year on earth.
If any of you good folks in our community of supporters wish to do some small kindness for us to celebrate these special days, we would ask that you channel that impulse into spreading the word about our online market to your friends and family in real life, and, if you use them, to your social networks online.
Many of you are consistent and passionate supporters of Blue Mountain, and as such, you are the most valuable, intangible force for the organic growth of our farm business imaginable. Our marketing budget is so small that it is essentially nonexistent, but no amount of marketing money spent on slick and clever campaigns can ever compare to the effectiveness of word of mouth spreading positive stories about a great, locally-owned business.
Thanks for your continued support and encouragement and especially for the little notes, silly jokes and stories you share with us in your comments at ordering or in emails. These things mean so much to us!
Sending big love from our little farm,
K+T
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