http://csa.amandadevries.com Farm in transition Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:29:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_213" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Farm House"][/caption] Well, it's a done deal!  In 2 months we will own this farm house, along with the 40 acres around it.  The house is very small so we'll be looking at putting an addition on it in the very near future.  But the property has ... http://csa.amandadevries.com/?p=214 [caption id="attachment_195" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="New DeVries Farm"][/caption] Well, first an apology:  If you were a faithful reader and you happen to still come around and read this, I'm sorry I stopped posting so abruptly.  It didn't seem right to be posting on my farm blog anymore since I had made the ... http://csa.amandadevries.com/?p=193 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 ... http://csa.amandadevries.com/?p=188 This past week's share is looking decidedly fall-like, right on time.  The share includes cabbage, broccoli (lots!), red head lettuce, parsley, carrots, radishes, bulb fennel, tomatoes, rutabaga, peppers and onions.  The fennel is the only kindof wierd thing in the share this week.  I have to admit to not having ... http://csa.amandadevries.com/?p=178 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 ... http://csa.amandadevries.com/?p=175 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 ... http://csa.amandadevries.com/?p=169 Week 15 share is being sorted out in the picture above with a bunch of helpers.  This week included onions, garlic, carrots, chinese cabbage, a watermelon, tomatoes, peppers, kohlrabi and a fairly large bunch of broccoli.  The chinese cabbage and kohlrabi are fairly new vegetables that you might not be ... http://csa.amandadevries.com/?p=167 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 ... http://csa.amandadevries.com/?p=165 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 ... http://csa.amandadevries.com/?p=161 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 ... http://csa.amandadevries.com/?p=156