2021

2021 was a crazy year in so many ways. Our hearts go out to the residents of Lytton, the town south of us, who saw most of their hometown go up in smoke.

Summer here at Fountainview was much easier than for those of Lytton.  The record-breaking temperatures in July didn’t bother me all that much. 46 degrees Celsius doesn’t feel that bad when you’re drenched from keeping fields of carrots irrigated well enough to survive the heat.

The heat didn’t bother the weeds either. They grew faster than we’ve ever seen them grow before.

We did our best to keep the weeds under control, but many of our carrot fields quickly turned into jungles that made us wish we had GPS in our tractors. We had to replant much of our carrot crop, and pray that the hard frost in the fall would be delayed until the harvest was in.  And pray that forest fires wouldn’t remove the need to worry about the coming harvest.

God was good to us. We were able to harvest even the late carrots before the hard frost came. The forest fires that has been advancing toward us in the summer were held back by timely rains. Unseasonal rains, such as we never see in the course of many a summer.  And the list of blessings to be thankful for goes on.

As we’re busy washing carrots this winter, we have to deal with many odd-sized and odd-shaped carrots.  But we remember that, given the year we just came through, having any carrots at all to wash is a blessing to thank God for.

And from Fountainview farm, we’d like to thank our customers, especially those who keep buying our carrots even when they don’t look perfect.