On this longest night of the year, we like to remember that it’s in the darkness that dreams are born. And oh the grand plans that can come to us during nature’s wintery rest! Here is a little holiday cheer from our snowy farm to your happy home. http://covenantfarm.ca/Happy_Holidays/ NB – remember to turn on [...]
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Ah the magic of freshly fallen snow!
Although some of us are singing a different tune when wrestling to get snowsuits on and off or shovelling what feels like small Himalayas, first snow for the kiddies is awesomely magickal. And delicious. Want to taste? The to do list is far from completed, but snow kind of wraps it up for us. And [...]
Freezing Hog
We posted an entry last week about the upcoming pig situation. Now that it has passed, I wanted to let folks know how it turned out (and perhaps why). Vegetarians may or may not want to read this – up to you.
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 [...]
Exploring the woods
Living so close to forests, you’d think we would be in them all the time. But with the crazy busy growing season that starts before the snow melts and finishes with the first frosts, in addition to the threat of poison ivy (to which Joel reacts quite violently), we tend to only visit our forest [...]
Local Food
Stephanie and I attended a webinar today, from the folks at Buy Local! Buy Fresh!, a local food initiative in Waterloo. Very interesting in general, and we got a lot of tips on how to go about redesigning the local food system here. Five years from now, I think we should be eating local bread [...]
Family work bee
Sunday October 25 was the long-awaited work bee to replace the shelter in the bush. The shelter was built many years back — while the exact year of its construction is hard to pin down, our memories of the event itself are now family legends. A picture of rusticity, the shelter had plywood walls and [...]
Wasn’t that a party!
Twelve CSA member families turned up on this cold cold October Saturday to help us celebrate the end of the gardening season. Some strolled around the farm, others went scavenging vegetables from the garden to make up the harvest pot, and some chatted with each other and with the film crew covering the event for [...]
Fall in the Garden
Above is a snapshot of part of the field garden with rows of squash plants in the foreground, a few remaining flowers and beautiful swiss chard in the middle, and the hayfield at back that was cut in late August. The turkeys must be in there somewhere! On the weekend I harvested most of the [...]
Uh oh…
Joël injured his back last night. Jean-Pierre and I were working at the office when we heard that he was flat out, lying next to the pigs. What??? He was in fine form just yesterday afternoon! We rushed home, in time to help with getting Joël inside and putting the kids to bed, but we [...]
