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The Marigold Minute

The Marigold Minute is our space to share flower care guides, gardening basics, birding tips, and seasonal updates. Simple, useful notes and reflections from people who grow and garden every day. We have a new post every Saturday!

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Growing with Lac La Biche

Last week we had the opportunity to attend the Lac La Biche Tourism Kick-Off to discuss the future of tourism in our region and how local businesses, growers, makers, and community members can help shape and support it moving forward. As newer members of the community ourselves, it was and incredibly meaningful experience. We were so grateful to…

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A Mother’s Day Market Weekend

This past weekend marked another big milestone for us at the Marigold Market: our first double market weekend! We want to start by wishing a very happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers, grandmothers, caregivers, nurturing figures and fellow fur-mother’s in our community. We saw so many people picking out thoughtful gifts of flowers for the people they love, and it…

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Our First Market Day!

On April 10th, we officially attended our very first market as the Marigold Market at the Lac La Biche Farmers' Market, and honestly it still feels a little surreal to say that out loud! It may seem like a small step, for for us it’s a huge milestone! Since January, our basement has slowly transformed into a miniature greenhouse oasis filled with seed trays, grow lights, soil bins, and more plants than we’ve known what to do with at times. After months of…

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Waiting for Signs of Spring

March is such a strange time of year, technically, it’s spring. Looking out the window and at the weather forecast says differently. I don’t know about you, but we’re sick of the snow. Not just because the kids are stuck inside and it’s miserable outside, but because we want to be outside prepping beds and planting seedlings! For us as growers, though, it feels like we’re very much in a “hurry up and wait” situation, which is something I frequently hear Ashley say these days. But this time of year…

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Why the Marigold Market?

One of the questions we’ve already started getting is: “why marigolds?” Honestly, the answer is both deeply sentimental and incredibly boring. Like most things in our lives, it started with Ashley and I talking on the phone and throwing ideas at each other while trying to figure out what on earth to call this little flower farm we’d somehow decided to…

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Set-up Day Has Finally Arrived!

Set-up day had finally arrived. After “patiently” waiting for our racks, grow lights, heating mats, trays, and buckets to arrive, we were finally able to set them up this past weekend. We took many progress photos as we set-up, and are filled with anticipation for our first year as The Marigold Market…

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