Monday, May 31, 2010
26 Weeks begin
Good Morning.
Starting today.....
Dartmouth area deliveries. Hawthorne Elementary School 4:30 - 5:40
Peddars Way 4:40 - 5:30
Tuesday - Halifax area deliveries. Edgewood-Oxford United Church 4:30-5:30
Grainery 4:40-6:30
Wednesday - Local area deliveries and at Taproot pickups - Farm 4:30-6:30, Wolfville 4:45-5:15, Kentville 4:45-5:15
Thursday - Hammonds Plains and Bedford area deliveries - Springvale Nurseries that is now newly named Bloom - 4:30-5:30. Bedford pickup is at St. Ignatius Catholic church on 5 Bedford Street between 4:15 and 5:45PM
Windsor deliveries will be drop on Monday or Thursday we will see which day it works into better. Wilmot deliveries will occur on Tuesday.
Thanks - enjoy the week! Patricia
Starting today.....
Dartmouth area deliveries. Hawthorne Elementary School 4:30 - 5:40
Peddars Way 4:40 - 5:30
Tuesday - Halifax area deliveries. Edgewood-Oxford United Church 4:30-5:30
Grainery 4:40-6:30
Wednesday - Local area deliveries and at Taproot pickups - Farm 4:30-6:30, Wolfville 4:45-5:15, Kentville 4:45-5:15
Thursday - Hammonds Plains and Bedford area deliveries - Springvale Nurseries that is now newly named Bloom - 4:30-5:30. Bedford pickup is at St. Ignatius Catholic church on 5 Bedford Street between 4:15 and 5:45PM
Windsor deliveries will be drop on Monday or Thursday we will see which day it works into better. Wilmot deliveries will occur on Tuesday.
Thanks - enjoy the week! Patricia
Friday, May 28, 2010
26 weeks start this week
Over the weekend I will get an email out to remind everyone of the times, places, etc for pickup. I will post it here too. Yippy, ya who, it is the start of the 26 weeks of CSA.
Rapini Bolts
Wouldn't it be neat if our daily news headings were all about what is happening on the farm? Not what is happening with the PM or the scandal of the day, but of the goin'ons of our food production. The heading in tomorrow mornings newspaper would be 'Rapini bolts from lack of moisture' Here at your farm, we have two lovely rows of rapini that are small and flowering. They are a bust. In retrospect I should have had them set up with trickle irrigation, but I just didn't know that they were so sensitive. Anyway, live and learn and luckily they will make wonderful organic matter for the soil and the next batch of plantings.
Just an short evening update! Enjoy the weekend!
Just an short evening update! Enjoy the weekend!
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Middleton CSA delivery
Hello Friends,
After talking with a few interested people, we have decided to offer 26
weeks of Taproot Farms CSA and 20 weeks of the Noggins Corner Farm Fruit
Share in the Middleton/Kingston area. The pickup will be on Tuesdays
from 4:45-5:15 PM starting June 1st for the Taproot CSA and June 14th
for Noggins CSA. We will meet at the parking lot beside the Guys Frenchy's in Wilmot.
If you would be so kind as to pass this information around to your
networks I would greatly appreciate it!!!
People who are interested can just add the location to the bottom of the
registration form.
www.taprootfarms.ca
www.nogginsfarm.ca
Look under CSA (Community Shared Agriculture) on both sites to learn more!
Thanks so much for your help in sending this out.
Patricia
After talking with a few interested people, we have decided to offer 26
weeks of Taproot Farms CSA and 20 weeks of the Noggins Corner Farm Fruit
Share in the Middleton/Kingston area. The pickup will be on Tuesdays
from 4:45-5:15 PM starting June 1st for the Taproot CSA and June 14th
for Noggins CSA. We will meet at the parking lot beside the Guys Frenchy's in Wilmot.
If you would be so kind as to pass this information around to your
networks I would greatly appreciate it!!!
People who are interested can just add the location to the bottom of the
registration form.
www.taprootfarms.ca
www.nogginsfarm.ca
Look under CSA (Community Shared Agriculture) on both sites to learn more!
Thanks so much for your help in sending this out.
Patricia
Wild night
At 4:30 AM I bolted out of bed, woke Josh up because 'the chickens, the geese, there is something getting into the chickens!'
Josh ran out to to see what was up, but then we realized the noise was coming from our neighbours Barb and George's. They have chickens and piglets and cows. So Josh drove over to check on them. The sound was terrible. In the meantime I called over to let them know that Josh was on his way over.
Come to find out, it was raccoons fighting and they had one raccoon out on a limb screaming like what I thought was a chicken dieing.
I feel so bad for waking everyone up - it was quite a commotion. No sleep after that. Maybe a bit paranoid I guess. Now I am even waking the neighbours:((
Have a great happy chicken day!
Josh ran out to to see what was up, but then we realized the noise was coming from our neighbours Barb and George's. They have chickens and piglets and cows. So Josh drove over to check on them. The sound was terrible. In the meantime I called over to let them know that Josh was on his way over.
Come to find out, it was raccoons fighting and they had one raccoon out on a limb screaming like what I thought was a chicken dieing.
I feel so bad for waking everyone up - it was quite a commotion. No sleep after that. Maybe a bit paranoid I guess. Now I am even waking the neighbours:((
Have a great happy chicken day!
Sunday, May 23, 2010
A special surprise
Josh found these tonight.
A Killdeer nest. Whow!
They are amongst the broccoli.
- Farmer on the go!
A Killdeer nest. Whow!
They are amongst the broccoli.
- Farmer on the go!
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Sunny Morning
Josh has just loaded the kids in the van to go on a crop check this morning.
They are heading over to Medford to check on the peas and beans planted there.
Josh picked a handful of ripe strawberries yesterday. It will soon be time for earily berries!
I am off to do a morning check of this home farm. Things here are greeen and growing fast!!! The weeds are also growing fast:)
They are heading over to Medford to check on the peas and beans planted there.
Josh picked a handful of ripe strawberries yesterday. It will soon be time for earily berries!
I am off to do a morning check of this home farm. Things here are greeen and growing fast!!! The weeds are also growing fast:)
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Over cast Thursday
Well this morning Lily headed off to her first morning at school. It was the orientation day for the primary kids. It is hard to believe that she is already old enough to adventure off to school.
Last evening we went for a drive around to see how things are coming along. The strawberries are starting to turn colour. In a week we will have berries.
Josh is very excited with the healthy condition of the berry plants. They are so lush and green and full of health!
The garlic looks wonderful, the potatoes are up about a foot, the carrots are up, parsnips too - altough I can imagine that some of you aren't too interested in hearing about parsnips:))
The artichokes are planted in the tunnels, we are going to try them this year. I can't wait to see how they work out.
The leeks are all planted out on the new side field and the onions are going out next to them.
Things are moving right along! I am just starting to get organized for some canning weekends. We can begin with a jam weekend with rhubarb I hope. I will keep you posted.
Enjoy the day!
Last evening we went for a drive around to see how things are coming along. The strawberries are starting to turn colour. In a week we will have berries.
Josh is very excited with the healthy condition of the berry plants. They are so lush and green and full of health!
The garlic looks wonderful, the potatoes are up about a foot, the carrots are up, parsnips too - altough I can imagine that some of you aren't too interested in hearing about parsnips:))
The artichokes are planted in the tunnels, we are going to try them this year. I can't wait to see how they work out.
The leeks are all planted out on the new side field and the onions are going out next to them.
Things are moving right along! I am just starting to get organized for some canning weekends. We can begin with a jam weekend with rhubarb I hope. I will keep you posted.
Enjoy the day!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
May 13th - Thursday
It is another beautiful day on the farm. Last night it was music to our hears hearing the rain come down in the night. What a perfect routine, sunny all day, rain at night and the plants just grow, grow, grow.
Yesterday I had an interesting experience. I was a witness for the Standing Committee on Agriculture. There were about 15 people who were witnesses, we each had 7 minutes to speak. Once we spoke the MP's asked us questions. It was hard because there are so many issues and it is difficult sometimes to articulate them and to think of what are the best strategies for moving forward. The topic for feedback was Young Farmers and the Future of Agriculture.
It will be interesting to see what the committee recommends from their consultations.
Tonight the film DIRT is showing in Truro. After the drop in Hammonds Plains this evening I will scoot to Truro for the movie. Hopefully there will be some people out to see it. It has shown in Truro a few times already so we;ll see.
Today I am catching up on a large pile of papers in the office here. Last night Ron was spreading manure before the land is cultivated likely in the next day or so. Calvin is seeding and Gerald is digging out kale stalks so we can cultivate where it was planted.
Justine and Conall are likely into NB by now on their trip to Ontario. What a wonderful day to be starting an adventure!
Enjoy your day!
Yesterday I had an interesting experience. I was a witness for the Standing Committee on Agriculture. There were about 15 people who were witnesses, we each had 7 minutes to speak. Once we spoke the MP's asked us questions. It was hard because there are so many issues and it is difficult sometimes to articulate them and to think of what are the best strategies for moving forward. The topic for feedback was Young Farmers and the Future of Agriculture.
It will be interesting to see what the committee recommends from their consultations.
Tonight the film DIRT is showing in Truro. After the drop in Hammonds Plains this evening I will scoot to Truro for the movie. Hopefully there will be some people out to see it. It has shown in Truro a few times already so we;ll see.
Today I am catching up on a large pile of papers in the office here. Last night Ron was spreading manure before the land is cultivated likely in the next day or so. Calvin is seeding and Gerald is digging out kale stalks so we can cultivate where it was planted.
Justine and Conall are likely into NB by now on their trip to Ontario. What a wonderful day to be starting an adventure!
Enjoy your day!
Monday, May 10, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Friday events
We are cultivating land preparing it for planting.
Harvesting spinach.
Weeding the asparagus bed - next year we will be able to harvest from it.
Mulching raspberries.
Seeding.
Weeding greens.
Varnishing floor in Swallows Nest.
Cleaning out herb garden beds.
Transplanting green onions.
Celery has been planted.
Plant more radish, arugula, and greens.
Enjoy your day!!!
Harvesting spinach.
Weeding the asparagus bed - next year we will be able to harvest from it.
Mulching raspberries.
Seeding.
Weeding greens.
Varnishing floor in Swallows Nest.
Cleaning out herb garden beds.
Transplanting green onions.
Celery has been planted.
Plant more radish, arugula, and greens.
Enjoy your day!!!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Newsletter corrections
Goodmorning -
I realized in the city yesterday that the newsletter said that Wayne Parker grew the parsnips - they are Josh's farm parsnips and were grown on transition to organic land.
Also there was 1lb of fiddle heads and 1/4lb of greens.
Sorry!
I realized in the city yesterday that the newsletter said that Wayne Parker grew the parsnips - they are Josh's farm parsnips and were grown on transition to organic land.
Also there was 1lb of fiddle heads and 1/4lb of greens.
Sorry!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Orchard update
If you are intersted in following the progress of the fruit CSA - you can check in at http://nogginsfarm.blogspot.com/
We are going to start backing greens in about 20 minutes. They are being harvested right now.
Enjoy the day!
We are going to start backing greens in about 20 minutes. They are being harvested right now.
Enjoy the day!
Monday, May 3, 2010
Other CSA's
Please share......so we can ensure a viabrant, sustainable, small scale, new farmer, presence here in Nova Scotia. Here are four CSA's that have emailed me their info. There are many more. Thanks!
Farm Name: Moon Fire Farm
CSA Location: The Grainery in Halifax
Start date: June 2nd 2010
Contact: Kimm or Domenic 902-757-1912 moonfirefarm@gmail.com
Localmotive Farm
Stewiacke, NS (serving Stewiacke to Halifax)
Tentative start date of June 9th
localmotivefarm@gmai.com
www.localmotivefarm.com
Farm name: Southfield Organics
CSA location: Tantallon
Start date: June 16
Contact info: southfieldorganics@gmail.com
902-757-0262
Shani’s Farm- www.shanisfarm.com
668 Hwy # 236 Scotch Village, NS
Charlotte Harper
Horse and Garden Farm
1563 Wentworth Rd. RR1
Windsor,
Nova Scotia
B0N2T0
(902) 472-2498
charper@eastlink.ca
Our CSA runs June 14- Oct 30 (20 wks) at a cost of $500 for the season. ( $25 per week) Pick up at the Farm is preferred, but we offer delivery at $3.00/ wk
Farm Name: Moon Fire Farm
CSA Location: The Grainery in Halifax
Start date: June 2nd 2010
Contact: Kimm or Domenic 902-757-1912 moonfirefarm@gmail.com
Localmotive Farm
Stewiacke, NS (serving Stewiacke to Halifax)
Tentative start date of June 9th
localmotivefarm@gmai.com
www.localmotivefarm.com
Farm name: Southfield Organics
CSA location: Tantallon
Start date: June 16
Contact info: southfieldorganics@gmail.com
902-757-0262
Shani’s Farm- www.shanisfarm.com
668 Hwy # 236 Scotch Village, NS
Charlotte Harper
Horse and Garden Farm
1563 Wentworth Rd. RR1
Windsor,
Nova Scotia
B0N2T0
(902) 472-2498
charper@eastlink.ca
Our CSA runs June 14- Oct 30 (20 wks) at a cost of $500 for the season. ( $25 per week) Pick up at the Farm is preferred, but we offer delivery at $3.00/ wk
Sunday, May 2, 2010
New pigs next door
Lily, Frank & I went next door to see the 12 new piglets. They are so cute!!! They were born at the beginning of last week.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Tomatoes
This morning Josh and I made a list of tomatoes for planting inside the tunnels There are only 7 rows ready so we need to be selective. The tomatoe plants will be so happy to get out of the trays.
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