Nicolas’ contribution to Christmas decorating this year was to wrap lights around “his” tractor. Funny guy. What could he have in mind for Christmas dinner? — Rotisserie turkey on the PTO? Oh, maybe I shouldn’t be giving him ideas… It was so lovely to wake up to a snow-covered landscape this morning, let’s hope it [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Horray for awesome weekends!
And the one before was pretty productive too. Among many squash related meals (including yummy winter squashy lasagna and butternut muffins) we had a bunch of work parties in the garden. How the scenery changes when the cucumber and tomato stakes are removed! Many tasks were tackled and completed – yay! All the green and [...]
A potato picking he goes
Shovel in hand, Mateo declares that he is going to the garden. Stephanie and I look up from our respective basket prepping tasks to watch him wander off. After a few minutes of wondering how far he decided to go and worrying that he might slip in all the mud and hit himself with the [...]
Welcome to Agri-Tour
This year we will be part of a two-weekend event in Eastern Ontario, a wonderful occasion for folks to get out and tour small farms in the area. A visit to Covenant Farm should be pretty relaxed: you can tour the garden, inspect Jean-Pierre’s beehive construction project, say hello to the pigs and chickens (and [...]
July photo tour
In a bit of a rush, but JP snapped several pictures of the farm a few days ago. Here they are in bulk – I’ll annotate them when I get the chance.
Picture tour of the garden
After Stephanie took some pictures from today’s harvest, I went around the garden taking a few shots of all the action. That said, they are mostly of plants, so I probably won’t describe this photo gallery as “action-packed”, even if it is to us! Click the “Continue reading” button below, on the right, to check [...]
