Get Real Local Organic Produce

...from your garden!

The Real Thing. The freshest, cheapest,"local-est" nutritious organic vegetables you can get! The taste you've been missing all winter, and the least loss of nutrients in travel to your table. Its time to start thinking about gardening even though the snow is still on the ground. And in your garden, you won't need the chemical fertilizers and pesticides the industry relies on, so you know just what you're feeding the family come harvest!

The Roseisle Co op is negotiating with a new, more local supplier of organic bedding plants for a sale day at the store. Sadly for us, David Neufeld, Room to Grow Greenhouse in the Turtle Mountains has decided to limit the truck traveling he does to deliver his fine bedding plants to customers as he has done for us for several years now. Good for the atmosphere, too bad for us! We will let you know when a list of plants is available, and the ordering and pick-up schedule.

Actually, seeds travel more economically than plants, and your labour is...well, free! We now have a selection of garden seeds for sale in time for outdoor planting, including bulk corn and peas, as well as seed potatoes and onion "sets". So check your seeds and your plans for this fast-approaching season while there's still time to mail-order for those special, harder to get items.
Some of our favourite garden crops have to be be started early indoors to take full advantage of our short season. We don't all have time or space to start all our own plants, so watch our blog for news from our new greenhouse supplier for bedding plants.
They will supply "open-pollinated" varieties, non-g.m.o., non-hybrid varieties.


If you are concerned with growing "open-pollinated" non-hybridized plant varieties so that you may save your own seeds for next year, it will take a little looking for the seed, as most commercial seed houses specialize in hybrid seeds. These are bred for specific special characteristics like higher sugar, bigger fruit,longer shipping/shelf life etc., but these qualities don't transmit to the next generation , so you will have to buy new seed again. (Here's an extra cost).

If you are interested in traditional open-pollinated varieties, you're looking for what is known as "Heritage" seed, and we happen to have an excellent source for a most amazing variety of carefully collected historical"vegetable and flower seed in our area.
Tanya Stefanec, HERITAGE HARVEST SEED of Carman has an astounding catalog of the world's fine seed variety, many of which have been grown for centuries, passed from generation to generation. Check out the amazing list of tomato varieties, several of which have proven Excellent in the Roseisle area, and will continue to produce year after year from saved seeds!

Look at the website: www.heritageharvestseed.com


"TERM OF THE WEEK": OPEN POLLINATED SEEDS

"Open-pollinated varieties are the traditional varieties which have been grown and selected for their desirable traits for millennia. They grow well without high inputs because they have been selected under organic conditions.

These varieties have better flavour, are hardier and have more flexibility than hybrid varieties. Breeders cannot manipulate complex characteristics such as flavour as easily as they can size and shape.

These seeds are dynamic, that is they mutate and adapt to the local ecosystem, as opposed to modern hybrids, which are static.

Commercial breeders lack the incentive to produce new open pollinated varieties from which farmers could save seed and replant.."

SEE: www.primalseeds.org


For our customers who don't grow a garden, we're also negotiating to get a supply of fresh locally grown produce in the store through the summer-fall season, when we don't need to be trucking in produce from as far away as we do in the winter/spring season!

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