It’s with a bit of mixed feelings that I announce that we are officially selling our place. We’ve been wavering back and forth all summer about this. The main (and probably only) reason for selling is that we are planning on moving back to Southern Ontario. Both my and my wife’s families are there and [...]
A couple new things this week: Brussel sprouts and celeriac. Some of the sprouts have loose outer leaves that should be stripped before eating. The next batch should be tighter and more uniform in the cooler weather. The celeriac tastes a lot like celery (surprise!) and is great eaten raw like carrots or in a [...]
This week we will very likely be getting frost and they weather has cooled significantly. Perfect time to harvest the sweet potatoes which won’t do much growing once the temperatures are below 20 C and the potatoes themselves are damaged when the soil falls below 10 C. As expected, the harvest was well below its [...]
So in deciding not to go to the Carleton Place market yesterday, I find myself with a ridiculous amount of tomatoes and melons. The upside for the CSA families is that I’m trying to spread some of the abundance around. In the picture above you can see Lara’s minivan loaded with 4 shares. Each share [...]
I definitely have a surplus of tomatoes right now. It took me the better part of the afternoon to pick them all yesterday. I decided to try selling some of them at the road by our place. We get a decent amount of commuter traffic so we’ll see how this works out. [...]
I finally removed the row cover from 2 double rows of brassicas. On the left is primarily cabbage and on the right is brussel sprouts (with a few red cabbages in the front). They are looking great! Some of the cabbages were damaged early on from some insect or other. That [...]
OK, so I opted not to show a picture of the chicken harvest. Martin came by last Saturday to help me reduce the number of roosters I have. Slaughtering animals you’ve raised yourself must be the quintessential farm experience of connecting yourself to where your food comes from. I imagine it is [...]
Better late than never, we finally started getting melons this week. I find it quite hard to tell when they are ripe and we end up having them split and fill with insects. The parts of the melon not affected is still fantastic. Here you see 3 varieties I picked this afternoon: Halona at the [...]
Finally! We get to eat sweet corn from the garden. After years of negotiating with the raccoons, we’ve come to an agreement that I can harvest corn for ourselves. I have to say, it is amazing how much space this stuff takes. I thought I might have enough to give a couple dozen to CSA [...]
Despite the fact that most of the crops in the garden are considered vegetables, a good number of them are actually fruit, botanically speaking of course, such as this tomatillo pictured above. Here’s a little photo sweep of some garden “fruit”. I apologize to those on dial-up trying to look at all this [...]
