Wally's Urban Market Gardening

What’s New

April 18, 2015

We would like to apologize to our regular customers and friends at the Saskatoon Farmer’s Market. We are taking a short break from the market, and we will be focusing our energies on crop planting.

We got a great head start cleaning, tilling and planting onions at one of our peri-urban plots the other day.

Stay tuned for further updates.

April 2, 2015

It has been a long winter here in Saskatoon, but temperatures have finally begun to rise and hints of spring are in the air. As a result, Wally has already been able to plant a bed of onions in his backyard plot (something he has not been able to do in many years).

We are currently selling the last of the cold storage carrots from last season, pea shoots, green onion (the bagged tops or potted in a container), wheatgrass, and more. Also, Gail has done a stand makeover. Come and check it out.

January 28, 2015

It has been a busy and eventful week at the Saskatoon Farmer’s Market with the annual Wintershines festival in full swing. Some notable highlights from the festival so far include: impressive ice sculptures, two competitive soup cook-offs (one amateur and one pro) and a visit with Canada’s Food Network celebrity, Lynn Crawford, who was here filming footage for her new upcoming show The Great Canadian Cookbook.

The fun continues tomorrow with the Night Market, open from 4:30pm to 8:00pm. We will have Carrots, Onions, Pea Shoots, Squash, Wheatgrass, Bird Feeders and more. We hope to see you there.

January 13, 2014

After an all too brief holiday, the Saskatoon Farmer’s Market is back in business.

This week we will have three different varieties of carrots: Purple Rain (an Imperator type), Bolero (a Nantes type) and Paris Market. We will also have onions, pea shoots and purple Peruvian potatoes.

If you like to juice wheat grass, or feed it to your cat, keep an eye out for our wheatgrass containers.

December 13, 2014

The temperatures in Saskatoon have been above seasonal lately and, as a result, Wally was able to wash some of his Purple Peruvian Potatoes outside this week. You can say it almost felt like spring again.

This week, in addition to having lots of Potatoes, we will also have Carrots, Onions and lots of Bird Feeders for sale at the farmer’s market. Also, keep an eye out for some of Gail’s Onion Braids; they make fabulous and practical gifts.

November 29, 2014

Another upgrade to Gail’s original bird feeder design is this neat looking holiday wreath. They make nice gifts, and the birds will love you for it!

Now at the market, we have all our classics, our favourites: potatoes, carrots, onions and pea shoots.

We hope to see you there.

About Wally’s Urban Market Garden

20 years ago, we (Wally and Gail) began farming on an acre-sized plot outside of Saskatoon, adjacent to the South Saskatchewan river, 40 miles north of Saskatoon. After six years farming our rural site, we realized there was a better living to be made growing multiple crops intensively in the city. We sold our farm and became urban growers. While some have been skeptical that growing three crops a year in Saskatoon is too labour-intensive, this is much less work than mechanized, large-scale farming. We used to have a tractor to hill potatoes and cultivate, but we find it’s more efficient to do things by hand. Other than a rototiller, all we need is a push-type seeder and a few hand tools.

City growing also provides a more controlled environment, with fewer pests, better wind protection and a longer growing season. We are producing 10-15 different crops. Our volumes are low compared to conventional farming, but we sell high-quality organic products at sustainable profit margins.