Looking back on past posts, we came to the conclusion that they were looking a touch repetitive and lacking in well, oomph or personal touch perhaps? So we’ve opted to try a new format… The day started at 5:30, with a double espresso and peanut butter toasts quickly followed by Joël heading outside to check [...]
Archive > July 2009
Bringing home the bacon
Today was a big day over here – we were setting up the new pig pen (repurposing old skids and logs) under the apple trees, picking up the lovely ladies from their birth place at Aartje’s (in Dalkeith) and helping them settle into (read: reinforcing) their new home. Kamé was very saddened that these Tamworth [...]
Harvest notes for July 27
The good news is despite the stormy weather, it was a good harvest day. The bad news is that that traipsing around in a wet clay soil is unkind to soil textures. Ah, those poor soil aggregates! Anyway, we have almost everything we had planned: – Mesclun mix – Some summer squash (2 or 3 [...]
Harvest notes July 23
OH, was it cold this morning! I had to go back to the house to get my winter coat and gloves! Today’s baskets are pretty much as expected: a few snowpeas, carrots, two head of broccoli, a red or green cabbage, green onions, summer squash, mesclun, radishes, and white beets. The beets are a heritage [...]
Whirlwind visit to MacLennan’s Glen
Bet you didn’t know Joël and I and the kiddies were in Antigonish for three days this time last week!? Squeezed in after a basket and back before prepping for Saturday market, we went to visit our great friends Carin and Scott – conveniently, also parents of Kamé’s beloved Mani Dude. They used to operate [...]
Harvest notes for July 20
I’m sure that all of the vegetables will be familiar to everyone: cabbage, broccoli, lettuce, radishes, summer squash, carrots, snow peas, and sunflower, alfalfa-clover, and alfalfa-clover-radish-cress-dill sprouts. There are also black raspberries in the baskets. These have been growing wild around the farm ever since June planted a few canes fifteen or so years ago. [...]
Harvest notes for July 16
Not so long ago we had trouble growing full heads of lettuce — we seem to have learned that much, but we have a way to go with planning so the harvest is spread out properly. We had far too much lettuce to put in the baskets (big thanks to members Margaret, Gerry and Robert [...]
Harvest notes for July 13
So here are my ramblings about the baskets today: Lettuce, either Berenice (the green oakleaf type) and/or Red Cross (red-tinged leaf lettuce). That’s the end of the large spring planting. The next harvest might be next week, but I suspect the summer lettuce might not be ready that soon. We shall see, right? Depends on [...]
Hey, are you a farmer?
Sometimes it feels like being a farmer means juggling a loose coalescence of unfinished projects. I’ve been thinking lately (you know, in my spare time about where this farm is heading, what it will look like in 15 or 50 years. Mostly, I figure it will be like I’ve copy-pasted all of our collective ambitions [...]
July 9th Harvest Note
In today’s basket: – cilantro – dill (I am convinced that dill and eggs were made for each other…well, until cucumbers are in your basket and then I’ll be saying they’re a perfect match too) – Hakurei summer turnips (Eat those greens! They taste a whole lot like the turnips themselves. We had them in [...]
