Farming an acre of vegetables in Wilton, Ontario, Evan Quigley has always aimed to bring the highest quality and consistency to market with a keen eye on profitability. Evan has achieved high quality and yields with a combination of techniques and careful management at The Kitchen Garden farm. 

Knowing a few tricks can make a big difference in seed starting, and it saved our larkspur crop. We’ll give you a rundown on some of the basic seed starting concepts, and then tell you a few tricks we’ve learned.

With summer upon us, heat is a major motivator — growers want to get the produce, and themselves, out of the heat and properly cooled as efficiently and effectively as possible. If you don’t beat that heat, every hour you delay cooling your produce can reduce its shelf life by a day or more, causing major headaches for you and your customers. 

One way to reduce those headaches is to focus on your production flow: the steps you take and the tools you use to move your produce from the field, to the packhouse, into cold storage and out to the customer.