What a wonderful day we’ve had! Not that that is unusual here, because the days are different and exciting, as I am slowly but surely learning the ropes of the farm…There is so much to learn! And today, finally, after a few days of wild, windy rain, the day dawned bright and clear. By 6:30 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Glorious sunshine!
What a treat this sunshine is! We were lucky to have the help of friends Luc and Daphne on Sunday to harvest the pumpkins and assorted winter squash that were still in the field. Thank you! Mateo was a big help today too, harvesting potatoes with his Maman, then counting the batch that had been [...]
CSA basket 15
Hello Crow. What are you doing today?… I’m harvesting, see you later! The baskets came together very nicely today, in spite of the off-and-on rain. The beans were picked on Monday, and we had help all day long from our good friend Jean-François. The potatoes are yummy German Butterball, enjoy! Robert harvested the entire row [...]
CSA Basket 14
Joël was happy to sit for a few minutes after harvesting to package the salad mix. This was our first attempt at growing the greens individually, the way the pros do, and we’re very happy with the results (although we’ll have to find a more “pro” way to harvest the little leaves). We didn’t include [...]
Hot Harvest Day
Boy, you’d think we were in the middle of July, not the last day of August! Even though we started harvesting as soon as it was light this morning, we didn’t manage to finish until noon, and by then we were cooking. Nearing the end we almost gave up on harvesting the summer squash, but [...]
