Yesterday we had the help of some members to repot (into larger soil cubes) our little tomato seedlings. They were getting very crowded in their tiny cubes, but we had held off repotting them until we could free up some shelf space by rotating hardier seedlings outdoors. It’s much warmer now, and the difference in [...]
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Busy Spring
The weather has gotten so much colder this week, but we enjoyed a glorious stint of dry spring weather, and the garden is underway. On the long Easter weekend, Joël helped with seeding six beds of onions, and we did parsnips and carrots, too. Meanwhile Jean-Pierre was busy readying the old chicken coop for its [...]
Hive cleaning
Jean-Pierre and I took advantage of the warm weather this week to do hive maintenance. Two Warré colonies and one Langstroth have come through the winter okay. We started with the Langstroth, and we didn’t have any particular difficulty, but after moving on to the two Warré hives we were once again astonished at how [...]
Baby, it’s hot in here!
You know the gardening season is just begun when… you have to make ten trips back and forth to get everything collected, just to seed a tiny bit of row! Rusted up over the winter, I was. But once everything inside the tunnel greenhouse, I sure got warmed up. So it was off with the [...]
A Winter Project
Jean-Pierre has almost finished refurbishing our two much-used (and abused) garden carts. They look brand new!
Festive, Restive Season
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 [...]
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!
