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 [...]
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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!
The green is coming! The green is coming!
See?… What, you don’t? C’mon, LOOK! There at the back — those are green onions. And storage onions are seeded in those cells at the foreground. We have 45 such trays done (of onions I mean), and the peppers are coming along, and the artichokes, and the celeriac… It’s all so exciting! Every spring I [...]
Seed shopping the organic way
With organic certification comes the requirement to source organic seeds. We have always bought organic seeds when they were readily available, but now I’m spending days (well, a day and a half) trying to track the availability of specific varieties that we are especially fond of. In many cases we’re switching to similar varieties that [...]
Farm Interns
This weekend we met a young couple from Montreal, Alessia and Bruno, who want to be our farm interns this summer. Ali is a graduate in Communications and Bruno is wrapping up his studies in Business Administration. But now they want to become farmers! Zero experience, but oodles of enthusiasm, as you can see from [...]
Life with a tractor — Day 1
Although we haven’t been reporting to the blog these past couple of months, the farm project has been evolving quite a bit. There is of course a substantial change coming, in that Joël won’t be at the farm full-time for the next few years while he builds up his coffee roastery. Which leaves us with [...]
So little time, so many “chapeaux”
It’s the same every year: we think we’ll have so much time to do other things once the vegetable season is over. Ha! It’s still a mad rush. The pigs are thriving and still busily ploughing up the big field garden. We’ve removed the fence posts from around the old grass ring, where the new [...]
