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 [...]
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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 [...]
Zen weeding and project tackling
Aside from making the most delicious tikka masala and being skilled at making our kids squeal and giggle, Louai is also an amazing weeder – meticulous and zen and efficient. The greenhouse looks incredible! I hope that our woofers get as much out of their stay at the farm as we get from their presence. [...]
Frustrating Frost
As some of you may have noticed, there was a fairly significant frost last night. We knew it was coming and moved the tomatoes out of the greenhouse just in case. However, since I was happily caught up in some silly play with the kids and our current woofer Louai, I didn’t think of harvesting [...]
Spring Celebration Soup
There’s this recipe book I love love love, that I have probably already mentioned on here, Simply in Season. And although I have many a favourite soup (Cool Ginger Peach Cashew, closely followed by Maple Syrup Butternut, are at the very top of the list), I look forward to this one all year. It’s so [...]
Pigs on the Brain
With every bag of feed we finish we tell ourselves: ok, it’s getting cold, the girls are getting big, it’s time. That started about a month ago. To slaughter ourselves or have it done at a slaughterhouse in Chrysler, that is the big question. Depending on who we talk to, more pros or cons are [...]
July 9th Harvest Note
In today’s basket: – cilantro – dill (I am convinced that dill and eggs were made for each other…well, until cucumbers are in your basket and then I’ll be saying they’re a perfect match too) – Hakurei summer turnips (Eat those greens! They taste a whole lot like the turnips themselves. We had them in [...]
Harvest notes July 6
There are two small bags of cress in today’s basket, of two different varieties. The smaller sized cress is called Wrinkled Crinkled, and the larger is Cressida. The white ball-vegetables are not radishes but summer turnips, and we hope that you’ll enjoy them as much as we do! Here is a very simple recipe for [...]
