Friday, April 19, 2024 – Welcome Message

 

Welcome to our new website (www.elliottfarmservices.ca) and to our new blog. We hope to keep you informed about the goings on around the farm and the garden.

We are unsure on how the ground thawing is progressing, because the temperature out here has been dropping to colder than -10°C each night.

Remember, we are at least 5°C cooler out here than it is in the City of Edmonton (nice in the summer, not so much in the winter). For a more accurate weather forecast here, check out the one for Elk Island National Park.  

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