Archive > March 2010

Tomato Seeding Party

On the indoor agenda for this coming Saturday (April 3rd) is the gargantuan tomato seeding party. There are many varieties and we have a little tomato addiction, so more is better in this case. If it’s gorgeous out, we will happily move the block making and seeding stations to a pic nic table outside. Otherwise, [...]

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Chirpy cheerful chicks!

We’re surrounded by cute little chicks! Well, that may be a slight exaggeration since there are only ten of them at the moment. Another dozen are currently in the hatcher so there will be at least a few more in about a week. They (being fertilized eggs from Claude, a bird loving neighbour) were a [...]

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Evolution

Joël and I attended a workshop last Saturday on “Record Keeping for Organic Certfication”. Are we going over to the dark side? It does mark a change in attitude for sure. Over the past months, with the development (I should say start) of the long-awaited farm plan, we have begun to see how all of [...]

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Camp site development

It’s great to be able to get outside to work! These past few days we’ve been clearing out some trees in the spot where the camp site for farm interns and helpers will be set up. We want to get the bulk of this job done before the birds start to build their nests — [...]

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