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A squirrel completely wrecked my plans

May 20, 2025 7 min to read

I sit here, a week post-knee-repair-surgery, gazing at my plants that are overgrowing their pots. Imagining the disaster of overgrown weeds in the garden and greenhouse. Itching to be in …

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Mother’s Day Garden

May 13, 2024 1 min to read

I hope all my readers had a happy Mother’s Day! I got my garden (back)! We rented a rototiller and the husband, the kids, and I were able to get …

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Owl Creek Farm 2024 Garden
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Strawberry plants and other seedlings

May 6, 2024 0 min to read

A break from the chicks so update on the seedling progress – the strawberries are doing lovely! The celery is coming along – I discovered celery needs a lot of …

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It’s all good

May 31, 2023 1 min to read

Thank you, to the visitor who pointed out our website wasn’t working. I’d received an email a couple days ago that our “super speedy” service had exceeded bandwidth and we’d …

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Seedlings in plastic cups thrive under LED lights on a shelf, nurtured with care by Owl Creek Farm.
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Salt in Bread and Planting Herb Seeds

April 17, 2021 3 min to read

How’s that for a title. Naming these posts is easily the hardest part of posting. Type out details is satisfying, putting into (usually) organized words what’s been done, but those …

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Gardening schedule table for crops by Owl Creek Farm, detailing seed starting and transplant dates aligned with frost and moon phases.
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Alberta Gardening Calender

February 24, 2020 4 min to read

The wait for spring becomes almost a living thing for those of us in this climate. We dread the return of mud, but the return of green growing things and …

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Whoa, what just happened!

January 23, 2020 0 min to read

Don’t panic! You were supposed to be sent here from the garden-of-eatin link you clicked. This is our new farm website for our new farm name; garden-of-eatin.com will eventually be …

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Years of our lives

March 16, 2017 3 min to read

That moment when you realize it was 2014 when you posted last, and it’s somehow now 2017…. How did that happen? Looking back over all the year’s posts, my poor …

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The Gift Bag!

September 23, 2015 1 min to read

Here is the contents of the gift bag at the 2015 GBK Primetime Emmys Celebrity Gifting Suite – our soap (Silk & Shea Butter Handmade Soap – Mini Size) is …

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Going to the Emmys

September 1, 2015 0 min to read

Well, not me! But my soap is! Specifically, my Mini Silk & Shea Butter Handmade Soap is being gifted to the Press/Media at the 2015 GBK Primetime Emmys Celebrity Gifting …

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Three black planters with soil sit on grass; the front planter has a small plant growing, nurtured by Owl Creek Farm.
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2014 Veggie Garden offically started!

May 13, 2014 1 min to read

Finally – it’s been years since I got to really get into doing a veggie garden, but I got a start on it today! It didn’t take much work to …

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Edmonton Journal’s story about our MTV Movie Awards Gift Bag participation!

April 10, 2014 1 min to read

I was pretty jazzed to wake up this morning – I’m “one of those” that checks my email before I’m even out of bed, just a quick look to see …

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  • Handcrafted Soap
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