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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Smitten with Squash
What can I say? I am very fond of squash, not matter their shape or size. Myself and my fine fellow harvesters have had a great time (I think so at least) spotting and cutting free the bright Sunburst, the camouflaged Costata Romenesco, and the appealing, unique Zephyr. I think of it as a knee-high [...]
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 [...]
You are my sunshine …
This week we sprinkled a little extra sunshine into each of our baskets! We included a generous bag of delightful sunflower sprouts for every CSA member. These baby sunflowers are power packed source of nutrition, especially if you consume a largely plant based diet like I do. I am a raw foodist , meaning that [...]
Tastes from the farm
Et voilà! A full, full day of harvesting (we are all quite content to be sitting down!), and the baskets safely sent off before the deluge began to fall upon us. (Although those who are delivering did get a little stuck in the rain!) The third basket. It’s a little hard to believe! We kept [...]
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 [...]
