Today’s seeding included many more onions and leeks, lettuce, herbs and a few flowers. Jackie, Catherine and I also transplanted 300 lettuce seedlings and thinned the first trays of onions. The trays have already filled all available shelves, and are now creeping over benches and even the floor. We moved several cold-hardy seedlings out to [...]
Archive > March 2009
The Buzz
“Fruitless Fall”, by Rowan Jacobsen, has been a hot book around here these past weeks. My turn came just a few days ago so I’m only part way through, but this sentence made me smile because it puts my (limited) experience with bees in a nutshell: “Rather than a domesticated species, eager for human contact, [...]
Where are the photos?
This is our brand new website, launched just before supper today. I was thinking of doing a little fine-tuning this evening, but wasn’t expecting most of the photos to have gone missing! Yikes! We’ll have to see to that tomorrow… Aside from that it looks alright, eh?
Still Life With Seeds
Okay, I know it’s a lousy picture! I was trying to capture the thrill of putting seeds into the earth, to share it with you… Seeds are magical, they are tiny packages of staggering potential. There is so much ingenuity in their design, so much creativity in their adaptations, forms and colours. Seeds are breathtaking [...]
