Central Alberta Foodgrains Growing Project

08/30/2026

With beautiful weather on August 26th and 27th, our 136-acre field of yellow peas was successfully harvested with the help of several local farmers. 🙌🏼

We are very pleased to announce we combined a total of 10,105 bushels (or 265.025 MT) which works out to about 70 bushels/acre. This is a great yield given the year!! Our peas were graded 2C yellow and we are very proud to have received a cheque for $82,914.92.

We would like to thank all the local farmers who were involved in wrapping our 31st season - we greatly appreciate all of you for volunteering your equipment and your time!!
Thank you as well to our directors for coordinating and rallying volunteers!

We were also very happy to have some members from Westview Baptist Church present to join in the harvest. Thank you again for supporting us!!

While we weren’t able to host a harvest lunch, we will aim for community event later in the year.

We have so much to be thankful for this season and are so grateful to have had the support of the community and industry for 31 years running. Thank you to everyone and we wish a safe and successful harvest this fall! 🍂

Photo Credits to Danielle Graham-Bruning!

08/27/2026

UPDATE: Saturday Harvest Lunch is Cancelled

In agriculture, when weather cooperates, we have to take advantage!

Our pea field was ready to go earlier this week and our directors have done a great job of organizing combines to get the crop off.
As a result, we are projected to finish the field today and so will be canceling the lunch on Saturday. We would still like to do a community event later in the season so keep an ear out for that.

Stay tuned for a harvest wrap-up post shortly!

⭐️ We have officially picked a harvest date and are excited to wrap-up our 31st season! ⭐️

Harvest is planned for Saturday, August 29th as long as weather cooperates.
Everyone is welcome to join us around noon for lunch and to take in the harvest.

The field is located 1/2 a mile up Range Road 27-5 just off of Aspelund Road on the west side of Highway 2. Our sign is up by the field entrance to help mark the spot.

If you’d like to join or have any questions on directions and such, please reach out to any of our directors or feel free to message us!

We look forward to welcoming the community out to celebrate the 2026 season 🎉😊

08/22/2026

⭐️ We have officially picked a harvest date and are excited to wrap-up our 31st season! ⭐️

Harvest is planned for Saturday, August 29th as long as weather cooperates.
Everyone is welcome to join us around noon for lunch and to take in the harvest.

The field is located 1/2 a mile up Range Road 27-5 just off of Aspelund Road on the west side of Highway 2. Our sign is up by the field entrance to help mark the spot.

If you’d like to join or have any questions on directions and such, please reach out to any of our directors or feel free to message us!

We look forward to welcoming the community out to celebrate the 2026 season 🎉😊

08/10/2026

Harvest is on the horizon! 🙌🏼

Our pea crop is filling out the pods and gradually starting to change colour as it ripens. 🫛 Planning for this year’s harvest is in the works so keep an ear out for a harvest date announcement.

We can’t wait to have everyone out for the 31st harvest!

07/29/2026

We have some exciting news to share ➡️ This year, we have been fortunate to welcome the support of the Westview Baptist Church in Calgary!

Westview Baptist has been a supporter of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank for many years. This season, they have chosen our growing project to support by providing funding to assist with crop inputs and insurance. We truly can’t express how much we value this connection! 😊

On July 4th, the Westview Baptist youth group with their leaders made the trek up to visit our field and learn more about our project. Three of our members joined the group to show them around.
🫛 Jack and Danielle presented on our yellow pea crop, explaining where it was at for staging and what it needed to reach maturity.
🌱 Doug spoke on what a growing project is and how it partners with the Foodgrains Bank.

Thank you again to Westview Baptist Church for supporting our project and glad they could make it up to see the crop!!

Now for the countdown to harvest 🗓️😁

07/05/2026

Is the new saying June showers bring July flowers? With our pea field, it very well could be! White flowers are starting to pop out on the peas and with all the rain, the next step is fungicide timing.

Thank you to Martin Van de Pol for spraying the herbicide passes earlier in the season and thank you to Richardson Pioneer and Cash Chem for donating the product!

As the field moves into full flower, we would like to thank Apeck’s Agro for taking care of the fungicide application and Parrish & Heimbecker for donating the product.

For those in the area, feel free to stop by and see if you can catch the field in full flower!
The field is north off Aspelund Road on Rge Rd 275 and our sign is up to mark the spot.

05/01/2026

Season 2026 is officially underway!😁
Seeding was happening today courtesy of local farmers and we can’t wait to see our peas poking out of the ground soon 🌱

If you’d like to check out our field this year once the crop gets growing, here are the directions to find it:
From the Blackfalds overpass on Highway 2, go west on Aspelund Road about two miles to Range Road 27-5 and turn north. Go 1/2 mile and it is on the east side.

Thank you to Leanne Longshore for snapping some pics of the action!

04/16/2026

It may not feel very spring-like today, but the 2026 seeding season is coming soon! Behind the scenes, there has been lots of planning for Year 31 and we are very pleased to announce we will be seeding an 136 acre field west of Blackfalds.

We are also excited to share we are switching up the crop this year and will be trying our hand at yellow peas!

Our wonderful directors have done a great job of lining up seed, fertilizer, products, and volunteers for the coming season and we will continue to share these updates as the season progresses.

Our big blue sign will be going up soon so be on the lookout 👀 and we will share more once it’s up.