Here is the list of plants we are growing this year. Anything not labelled specifically is generally being grown as an annual. There is more to come with this list as we are currently planning what permanent items are going onto the land. For fruit trees and such, we hope to purchase 2-3 year old [...]
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The era of bunnies has now dawned at our farm and the first bunny has arrived. This new bunny is Davin’s 4H project this year. I found a bunny that was free to good home, and so Bender (named by Davin after watching 2 seasons of Futurama) has moved in as of yesterday. For now, [...]
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This post is the first in an ongoing stream I’ll be doing on sustainable living combined with making household life more convenient & inexpensive. A big part of our moving to the farm is to evolve our family’s way of life into a form that works with our busyness and keeps costs down as well [...]
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Well, it’s been a few months since I posted and as life always gives you the unexpected, we’ve had a wild ride this summer into fall. Typically my family will “reboot itself” every September in some fashion and this year has been no exception, but with the addition of being extremely intense! We gambled our [...]
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I’m happy to report Hera is doing fine! Now I can turn my attention to figuring out what to sell at the local farmer’s markets and getting our first podcast recorded and produced!
Well, the new dog managed to eat a sharp chicken bone that Davin accidentally spilled onto the floor during dinner last night. We couldn’t get it out of her before it went down her gullet!! I had my forearm pretty much halfway down her throat and I just couldn’t catch it – it slipped away [...]
The storm that spawned this red rainbow also spawned grape-sized hail near Busby Alberta. Watching the clouds roll over our house was fascinating yet somewhat alarming since they were some pretty nasty clouds! It’s tornado season here, so whenever the storm warnings pop onto my cell phone, I have a look at the radar if [...]
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Well, our move to the new farm is finally complete! All of the plants I had growing outside our old place in town are really loving the new digs and flourishing. We are getting regular occurrences of rain to keep things watered and our rain barrel is always overfull. One of our many things on [...]
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Wow, has May been busy. Running 2 gardens both an hour away from my home (plus training for a marathon in august) makes for one incredibly busy schedule on top of the usual working and family life. We’ll start with experiments for the front yard this year: Mini-Greenhouses: I bought 2 of these from Home [...]
It’s been really cold this month so far with only 1 decent week to be had over 20C. There are tons and tons of green tomatoes maturing in all 3 gardens, and only a few starting to change to their mature colours. I’d’ve expected by now that I’d be swimming in ripe tomatoes but that [...]
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