Granskou Greens

10/14/2025

Happy Thanksgiving, my friends! Please join me at an event I am involved in next Sunday relevant to the changing season. My son, Soren and his friends are providing lunchtime music.
The Food Systems Roundtable of Waterloo Region invites you to our ongoing Skill Share Series. This October, join us as we explore how to put fruit trees to rest outside, as well as how to grow microgreens indoors during our colder months! This event will be hosted along with the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, with hopes that participants can contribute their knowledge of local food systems to ongoing research.
This community event will take place on October 19th, 2025, from 10 am-1 pm in Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School's (KCI) food forest and green industries classroom (greenhouse). Parking and lunch will be provided. Participation is free, but space is limited; please register through this Eventbrite to secure your spot. We will be accepting donations and memberships for the Food Systems Roundtable of Waterloo Region during the event to cover workshop expenses and support lunchtime musicians. Donations will help us run future events and projects, including a larger Skill Share event in 2026!
Event Descriptions:
Microgreens and Storytelling Skillshare - Join Sarah Granskou of Granskou Greens for a hands-on exploration of growing microgreens for KCI's smoothie bar.
Winterizing Fruit Trees Workshop - Join Dr. Meaghan Mechler to discuss planting new fruit trees in the fall, winter dormancy, and explore easy, practical ways to set up your fruit crops for their best chances of surviving disease, frost damage, and pesky grazers."https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/skill-share-seed-swap-and-food-system-surveying-tickets-1711007923759

07/01/2025

I wish it were winter. I hate summer growing. Weeds, weeds, weeds, watering, critters, pests, heat, trellising, and everything grows so fast I can't keep up. There, that's it for my temper tantrum and now I will deal!

02/26/2025

A few days to harvest and then back to the deep cold. My clients are being flooded with leaves, as the indoor greens and microgreens still need to be harvested despite this outdoor thaw. Lots to donate to the community this week as well. What a feeling.

02/17/2025

Things I've learned this year:
Snow removal is a far more pleasant job for the winter farmer than dealing with ice (especially for this Norwegian).
Before or during extended cold snaps, watering is actually important. Cold air dries out the soil and moisture holds in heat.

01/23/2025

The coldest nights of the year are filled with ceremony and quiet gratitude, as I cover the tunnels to get them through. It brings me back to having my eyelashes frozen under the Northern Lights of a Sami community in northern Norway. The colours here are inside the tunnels and from my hand felted naturally dyed fabric, a guardian dragon and the rich woven blankets, graciously loaned from a Latvian client. There will be some losses but we need this cold and so I celebrate. The winter gardening gives a silver lining to our warmer and erratic winters. This season, however, has been gold.

01/03/2025

And this is the why and the how.
Garden hoop tunnels in the snow, waiting to be covered for the cold. Winter gardening is like dressing a fickle toddler while summer gardening is like running after one. Only a few days ago there was rain.

12/31/2024

This article sums it up better than any other. Why it's hard and why we keep doing it...until we can't. A small farmer's life is often romanticized and there are misconceptions about our lifestyles and well-being. It's not that we necessarily "love" what we do such that we sacrifice so much. It's an unwavering sense of purpose. There's an instinctive force driving us with such a momentum that we move forward until some of us drop. I have a job with over full-time hours, volunteer in schools and yet receive suggestions for part-time work options. What other job would require such specialized knowledge/skill and pay so little? I feel questioned and yet revered. I feed the neighbourhood, yet qualify for the food bank. There's something wrong with this picture but I can't dwell on it. Time to plant a few more trays of microgreens before bed and waking up before dawn to harvest in the tunnels. Everyone still eats during the holidays and so I work every single day of the year, going away for 4 days with much planning. I'm ok with that. I can often parent at the same time in the same space they inhabit, feeding them with the results. This is one of the biggest perks. My community is the other. Thank you! Some farmers don't have that.

I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all

10/10/2024

What an honour to be featured on the Food System Roundtable Waterloo Region blog. Thank you Erica Carmount for a job well done and a lovely conversation. Hunting for photos gave me the kick in the pants I needed to finally get my website updated since the property renos a year ago.

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08/08/2024

Sounds like a great opportunity for our youth.

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Excited to join our mission? Sign up today for our free cooking and gardening classes, starting August 8th! Open to youth aged 12-17. Spots are limited, so secure your place now and start your journey towards food literacy and ecological awareness! 🌱🍴

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07/30/2024

I finally beat bacterial wilt. These represent 2 unpruned untrimmed cucumber plants, each cropping about 50 cucumbers each! Well, I didn't actually beat it but I managed to source County Fair cucumbers from McKenzie seeds and they are resistant. Now time to decide whether I pull them or trim the diseased leaves off etc. as downy mildew is settling in.

05/17/2024

Lettuce, Asian greens, kale, spinach and claytonia available for fresh eating. Seedlings both large and small available for planting now and ongoing. As I grow all year, my preferred planting times can be a little different in relation to our climate, insect and disease pressure and other factors. Seedlings are sold plastic free. Please message to inquire and I will get us connected via email. Pick your own options and summer/fall shares available (includes fruiting and root veg produce).

04/27/2024

My daughter made herself a kale smoothie for breakfast, and here is the lunch chosen by my 2 others. They are now going out in the garden and helping themselves. Life is good!