Before I started farming, I wanted to have sheep, so I could have wool and make a fine suiting fabric. I’ve always loved textiles, and on a trip to England with my best friend Julia more than 2 decades ago, we were visiting Hadrian’s wall, and surrounded by sheep on pasture. We saw twin lambs, […]
Wool fabric dream come true Read More »
And here we are at the start (ok, I know, it’s now March) of another year. Another year of uncertainty due to Covid, and further geopolitical conflict with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The IPCC also just released another report about the climate crisis which doesn’t exactly read hopeful. But what is one to do? Curl
The farm evolution revolution continues Read More »
I saw an Instagram post from #butterworksfarmvt today with the phrase in the title, “The answer is soil. The question is irrelevant.” (from a book by Didi Pershouse ‘The Ecology of Care’). Made me think of ‘Life, the Universe, and Everything’ by Douglas Adams, where the ultimate answer is ’42’. Also irrelevant ;P But then
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When I first left Toronto in 2008 to start a new life in farming, I started writing a blog on Blogspot, to keep friends, family and other interested parties updated on what I was learning and doing along the way. That blog became the farm’s de facto website with the addition of information pages (Contact/FAQ/etc.),
After 12 years…finally, a real website for the farm! Read More »
Hmmm…it takes a coronavirus pandemic for me to take the time to write a blog post. As any of you who have children know, having young children (Emma’s turning three in May) means you have no free time. Or actually, no time in general. Especially now as day cares are all closed. I’m not going
To the blog that is…I never left the farm! In fact, I was probably on farm more hours last year than any previous year, since I was home with baby Emma and had the farm’s employee, Michelle, making the vegetable deliveries to the GTA all season. So, having a baby and managing the farm during
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 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 »
