… all in one day! What a crew we had: Francine and Jean-François (friends and members), Monique (our practice intern), Nicolas’ buddy Philippe, Catherine (off and on) and of course Joël and myself. Meanwhile Jean-Pierre and Nicolas were busy in the field, digging drainage ditches and tilling. Great job, people!
Archive > April 2009
“And the daffodils look lovely today”
The whole plant process – teeny tiny seed to fragile seedling to blowing in the wind greenery to prolific tummy filler – amazes me every year. Especially after carefully picking up the pretty seeds with tweezers and placing them in soil blocks and covering them up, anxiously awaiting a little sprout in the next few [...]
First rows
What do we do at the farm on a fine sunny Saturday in April? Get out the seeds! These are the first few rows of carrots, sown in the sunniest and driest spot on the farm — the bed is aptly named “Soleil”. You can see that we also transplanted a few rows of bunching [...]
Block Making
This is a video of Joël making 2″ soil blocks for transplanting the cabbages that were previously sprouted in 1/2 ” cubes. The small cubes fit into the square holes in the larger cubes. Neat, eh? Soil blocks are great for growing seedlings because the roots are air-pruned, and field planting is streamlined because there’s [...]
Greenhouse
The seedling house is filling up quickly! I was sitting out there thinning the onions today, and until the sun came out it was quite chilly. It would be warmer of course if the end door was on — it was blown off its hinges a couple of weeks ago and we have to wait [...]
