Garlic Harvest

Last year we began to grow Garlic on the farm. Not just any garlic, this is a red skinned extremely strong garlic that blows that Chinese stuff out of the water.


Garlic is a fun crop which is grown a little differently than most vegetables on the farm. Instead of planting it in the spring, we must harvest, cure, clean and re-plant the whole crop in the fall before the ground freezes.

The picking does not take too long, four of us were able to pick 1/3rd of the crop in 3 hours Friday Morning.

We then take the garlic into our shed to prep for the next stage, Curing. We trim the garlic a little then place it on these drying racks that we blow air through. During this process we are preparing the garlic to be stored throughout the winter.

All of what I have just explained does take some time, but is no match to the work we have ahead. Once the garlic is cured we then have to go through bulb by bulb trimming roots and cleaning the dirt off to prepare the garlic for market. For the garlic that we will be re-planting we have to individually break each bulb apart into it's individual cloves so that in Mid September we can re-plant for next season crop.

If anyone would like to help us out please send me an e-mail at john@eaglecreekfarms.ca

Sunflower Maze Prime Time

It has been a challenging year for many crops on the farm. When this first pictures was taken only 2 weeks before we opened I wondered if there would even be a maze.



But as the days grew closer, the sun began to shine and the sunflowers started growing at 2-3 inches each day. In the last days of July less than a week before the Lily festival on August Long, the sunflowers began to bloom. It has turned out to be one of the best years for yellow sunflowers in the maze due to the slow germination of half the crop at the beginning of the season. Typically all the seeds germinate at the same time and flower at the same time. This year there will be great colour throughout the field until the end of August.


With views and photo opps like these I have completely forgotten the slow start we had to the season. It is absolutely stunning in the maze & our U-pick gardens are full of flowers and vegetables as well.

Lily Festival 2009

Our second Annual lily festival was a success, over 1300 people visited the farm over the weekend during 30+ degree temps on saturday and sunday, then a high of 15 degrees on monday. Thank you to everyone who venture out to the farm to celebrate the beauty of our rural setting.

Nearly 200 vases of flowers were picked over the three days of the festival and over 600 people ventured into, and found their way through our mazes. We are still looking for the Anderson Family, but hope they are feeding off the sunflower seeds at the moment.

For those who were not able to make it out, the farm will be open 6 days a week in August, Closed on Tuesdays, 11-7 every other day of the week except Sundays when we close at 5pm
Every day that we are open there is a concession, play area, farm animals, picnic area and a large collection of sunflower, corn, rope, bale, patio, arrow & finger mazes to challenge your navigation skills





The Lily Festival would not have been a success without all the help from the volunteers and staff helping me out for the weekend.

Don't worry if you were unable to make it to the festival, there are still over 10,000 stems of lilies left to bloom on the farm this summer.

Thank you to everyone who helped visited the farm for the weekend and Thank you very much to all who helped make the festival a success. We hope to see you on the farm this year in our u-pick or next August Long Weekend for the 3rd Annual Lily Festival.



Farmer John

I had many comments saying that I do not look like a farmer, but I assure you that I am. Just look
I am on a tractor, isn't that proof??