紹介 (English translation follows)
十二年前に妻と北海道からカナダのアルバータ州のエアドリーに引っ越してかから日本の野菜を家のバックヤードで育てはじめました。なかなかカルガリーで安全で美味しい日本の野菜は手にはいりません。日本の野菜をうまく育てる方法を身につけるまでには数年以上掛かりました。こちらは日本より雨が少なくて、栽培期が短く、しかも一年中雪が降るチャンスが高くて、一日の気温の差が大きいからです。
ベジタブルガーデンを徐々に広げて、二つのグリーンハウスを建てました。グリーンハウスでエアルームトマトと日本の桃太郎、ミディトマトを育てています。機械類は使いません。水はレインバレルに溜めた雨水を使い、日照りが続いたら、塩素を抜くために水道水を一度レインバレルに溜めてから、水やりをします。
畑には自家製コンポストとオーガニックコンポスト、エアドリーの平間牧場の肥料、海藻の肥料などを毎年混ぜています。
青菜には虫の被害から守るため、パオパオシートを掛けています。
僕のオーガニック野菜に興味があるかたは「 2011price list」をダウンロードして、eメールを送ってください。 (日本語可）
ジェフリー・ケーシー
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May 25, 2007 snow storm
INTRODUCTION
My name is Jeffrey Casey and I love to grow Japanese vegetables in my backyard. I live on a regular city sized lot in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada. Twelve years ago when my wife and I moved from Hokkaido to Airdrie, we found it very difficult to find the same tasty vegetables Japanese vegetables in Calgary. It has taken me many years to figure out how to grow Japanese vegetables given than Alberta has shorter growing season, cooler temperatures, lesser amount of rainfall, and greater daily temperature fluctuations than Japan.
I have slowly expanded the size of my vegetable garden which now includes two greenhouses. I use the greenhouse to grow heirloom tomatoes and Japanese tomatoes. I do not use machines to cultivate my garden beds. I hand water my vegetables using rain barrel water and only in extreme drought situation will I fill my rain barrel with Calgary tap water.
I feed my soil with homemade compost, purchased organic compost, a friend's aged cow manure and, on occasion, apply an organic granular fertilizer and liquid seaweed fertilizer. I protect my crops from numerous insects which just love the taste of my leafy green vegetables with a Remay fabric cover. To extend the growing season, every evening I cover my vegetables with sheets to protect them from frost. It does take a bit of time and effort to grow vegetables here but you are repaid many times over with the absolute freshest, safest vegetables around.
The expansion of my vegetable garden has corresponded with an increased interest in my organic vegetables from the Japanese community in and around Calgary. I do not sell at farmer's markets but rather through word of mouth to those who long for a taste of the quality of Japan produce. I set the prices for my organic vegetables based on prices for similar products found in Calgary supermarkets/organic delivery services. While I obviously cannot compete with the economies of scale that the industrial agricultural system enjoys, I do refer to my backyard as farm, an “Urban Farm”. Perhaps while browsing through my homemade website you may also be inspired to participate in the future of our food supply- urban agriculture.
If you are interested in purchasing my vegetables then please click on the page links above for more information, download my 2011 price list and your request.
Jeffrey Casey
Casey’s Urban Farm
“Urban agriculture is the future of our food supply.”
Jeffrey Casey
Fall 2007
frost blankets
Nov. 18, 2007
Pushing Z3A limits- average first frost date Sept. 1
Feb. 19, 2008
The promise of spring- adding organic soil amendments.
Spring 2008
Leaf Lettuce
Summer 2008
Cutting the grass with a non-polluting reel mower.
Summer 2008
Sifting compost
Summer 2008
Bagging my compost
Summer 2008
1.1 kg (2 lbs. 7 oz.) giant potato
Fall 2008
1523 g (3 lbs. 5 oz.) giant Japanese carrot
Fall 2008
Komatsuna+Chingensai
Dec. 6, 2008
Still growing leafy greens!
Jan. 6, 2009
Final spinach, carrot and tomato salad of the season
Jan. 18, 2009 Snow Farming
After an extremely cold December -30C, a Chinook (+12C) has blown in and the frost is out of the ground to 8” in the greenhouse so it is time to mix in some kelp meal and organic fertilizer.
What I feed my soil.
Summer 2010
Dec. 12, 2009
Had to dig a path to my compost bins after a very heavy snowfall.
