It’s mid-June and a little unsettling how quickly these seasons keep rolling on. Someone said that what is unique to the human race is that we experience reality in terms of time; as the seasons change, I’m particularly aware of that.

June 21 is this Sunday as I write this and after that, I hate to say it, the days become shorter; I was just beginning to enjoy them getting longer.

With that note, I want to say “hello” and also how grateful I think most of us are these days for the way this growing season has started. It’s not often that most of Alberta finishes seeding and soon after that gets a general rainfall that’s more than a sprinkle.

I’ve learned that all growing projects have had good rains recently. One caller from Grand Prairie told me, “Crops are looking really good here.” It seems like a uniquely excellent start to the crop year in Alberta.

As I send this on June 22, central Alberta is receiving lots of rain – perhaps even too much.

A green tractor pulls an air seeder
Seeding at Vauxhall

A red tractor pulls an air seeder.
Seeding at the Lacombe project

A red tractor pulls an air seeder
Edberg seeding underway

A stubble field with a Canadian Foodgrains Bank sign
Before seeding at the Tofield project

May we have a blessed few months of warm, kind weather, with just enough rain to make the gardens, the field crops, and our summer hearts flourish.

-Abe, Canadian Foodgrains Bank regional representative