Growing Veggies All Winter Long

Wouldn't it be amazing if we could grow or have access to locally grown vegetables in the winter?  In Creston, the Winter Harvest Project has been developing methods to identify which vegetables can be sustainably grown n the winter in unheated greenhouses.  The project was organized by Karen Powis and Anita Sawyer from College of the Rockies. The project has been funded by Columbia Basin Trust and Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC. Some of the vegetables grown included spinach, kale, corn, radishes, carrots, beets, lettuces, and endives. Some of the vegetables produced until December while others like the kale and spinach made it through the winter with crops being harvested in February. This opens up real opportunities for commercial growers to have a much longer growing season and for the consumer who can purchase locally grown veg. To read more about this interesting project and its' results go here http://www.communitygreenhouse.blogspot.com/