Nicolas’ contribution to Christmas decorating this year was to wrap lights around “his” tractor. Funny guy. What could he have in mind for Christmas dinner? — Rotisserie turkey on the PTO? Oh, maybe I shouldn’t be giving him ideas… It was so lovely to wake up to a snow-covered landscape this morning, let’s hope it [...]
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A Squash Story
This story begins on Saturday October 29, when I decided I’d had enough of the big Banana squash taking up half of my work table. Banana squashes can grow big, very big, and this was the second largest to come out of the field. (The largest Banana squash ever had a brief career as a [...]
Spaghetti Squash Harvest
We had perfect weather today for harvesting the spaghetti squash that were lovingly seeded by Rosalind early in the summer in the East field. Roz had to leave (sniff, sniff) to return to her studies at Mount Alison, but we’re sure she’ll enjoy seeing this picture of a bumper crop. We have less than a [...]
Ali’s Chocolate Summer Turnip Cake
During our after-harvest break on Tuesday morning, Ali whipped together a cake made with summer turnips! “Why would you want to put summer turnips in a cake?”, I asked. “To make it healthy!” was Ali’s enthusiastic response. Of course, she could have answered “because they’re there”… I was sceptical, but soon won over by the [...]
Proud workcrew
From left to right: Kevin (WWOOFer from France), Rosalind, Stephanie, Romain (fellow WWOOFer), Bruno and Alessia, posing with the season’s second CSA basket. Go gang!
Veggie IDs
To add to Rosalind’s post below on today’s harvest, here a a few photos to help identify lesser known vegetables. Boc choy. We slice right through the stems and leaves (thinly at the root end where the stalk is thick and in wider strips for the tops of the leaves), soak for a few minutes [...]
Playing catch-up
We had a glorious week of sunshine, and it seemed as though the weather had finally settled… So of course, we hopped to it! Tilling, and our first attempts at laying mulch with the bedshaper/mulch layer (which we are delighted with)… … and of course, transplanting! Some of those seedlings were very anxious to be [...]
Farm Tour
Bags of soil mix for block making sitting on the driveway. An expensive way to get our seedlings started, but almost guarantees good results. Where the new garden is going… The field garden, still very soggy. New tools: a cultivator on the left, and a bed shaper/mulch layer on the right. Last Friday, since it [...]
Spring Activities
FIRST PRIORITY: fill little brother’s boots with water from the ditch. SECOND PRIORITY: finish the composting toilet. Here Jean-Pierre and Jean-François have just settled the roof in place. One little composting toilet is a pretty big project, and it looks like it will monopolize at least a few more days. Next project is the cool [...]
This is how it’s done
By friends and family! I supply the seeds, the soil mix, and a little bit of instruction, and Ta Daa! All done. The crew this past weekend did such a fantastic job that we’ve caught up with the seeding schedule. Merci Jean-François, Francine and Joëlle!
