The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of field preparation (rock picking, compost spreading, rototilling, mowing), seedling starting, direct seeding and sheep pen moving. Last week, the farm suffered the loss of 3 of the 4 chickens I had kept over winter at the farm. Over the winter, the chickens had become completely free […]
To have or not to have chickens… Read More »
Sunday morning, I woke up to a wonderful surprise…a little black lamb! I had been looking at Agnes closely all winter and especially in February/March, looking for signs of pregnancy. By mid-March, I had concluded that she definitely wasn’t pregnant from the rams in her flock before coming to my farm at the beginning of
First lamb born at Black Sheep Farm! Read More »
After allowing last year’s vegetable subscribers the first chance to resubscribe, I’m opening up to new subscribers! The set up is essentially the same as previous years, with the major change being more pick up locations as opposed to individual home deliveries. This mostly just affects suburban neighbourhoods as they will have to stop at
2012 Vegetable Subscriptions now available! Read More »
One of the things I’ve been inspired to do this winter is to submit an essay about my experiences with Ramses and Agnes to the Globe & Mail’s Facts & Arguments section. I wrote it at the end of January and hit submit on the email to the editor with fingers crossed that my little
Article published about Ramses & Agnes! Read More »
I can’t believe how long it’s been since I last updated this blog! After having finally, but not quite, caught up on sleep from the frenzied activity of last year, I can reflect on what went right and what went wrong with the farm in 2011. In case it wasn’t evident from last year’s few
Reflection on the 2011 growing season Read More »
I’m writing this blog as Jeremy drives our vegetable packages into the GTA this week. Our ‘suburban’ run is a mammoth delivery route, with over 30 stops going from Brampton to Mississauga to Oakville to east Toronto to uptown Toronto to North York. From 7 am departure from the farm to last delivery in North
I can’t believe how busy this summer has been! I completely missed both July and August for blog posting because there just wasn’t any time to sit down for a moment to collect my thoughts. Reading the previous post, I realize how much has happened since then. First off, the weather did an about face
Into the home stretch Read More »
I should be washing dishes right now, but realized that I had to write at least one post for June! And the topic’s been on my mind for most of this month…when to start harvesting and delivering vegetables to the farm’s subscribers. It was a really tough call this year as the early crops weren’t
Starting the delivery season Read More »
It’s been a while since the last blog update because the past few weeks have been a frenzy of field prep, tree planting, soil blocking and seedling starting. If you’ve been paying attention to the weather, we’ve been having a very cold and wet spring, especially compared to the unusually hot and dry spring last
Field prep and planting Read More »
I’m currently inside the house, warming up with a hot cup of tea from a wet and icky fall in the mud, and thought it would be a good time to write about politics ;P I attended my first all-candidates debate for my region, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, on Wednesday night in the community centre at Keady.
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