Today has been a delightful day. We starting cleaning up in the basement getting ready for the new season. We are hooking up a computer in the basement for our farm records and we are establishing a place for people to house their things when they come to work. Our tools are also in desperate need of order and the plan will be to have them all organized, marked for where they belong and then we will all hopefully be inspired to put them back.
The kids played outside most of the morning. Izaak built a fort, Frank worked away at things and Lily was looking after various things.
This afternoon I went out to walk up to Fox Hill Cheese House to get some bread for supper. As I was walking up the drive way I was aware of the softness under my feet. It made me think of the book, Walk in a Relaxed Manner. I was walking up the drive way in a relaxed manner and then when I got to the end of the drive way I was thinking about balancing the cortisol and decided I would do the opposite of relaxed manner walking and I would run as fast as I possible could. Have you done this lately? Ran as fast as you could? That of course led my thoughts to the Olympics. All of those athletes working their bodies as hard as they possibly can. It really is inspiring. I ran for about 30 seconds twice and my lungs are still feeling it now an hour later.
I would like to sort out exercising more regularly. I forget that it feels so good.
Enjoy the evening.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
TGIF
I am constantly amazed at how fast a week passes. Today is my sister Carolyn's birthday. She came over to join us for lunch.
Josh and Beth are ordering seeds for his Canard farm today.
The greenhouse is full of trays again full of seeds to produce lots of greens to come in 4 weeks. The onions, romaine and pac choi have popped up in their pots.
I need to get to the basement and start the bean sprouts for next week.
The driveway is messy with these wonderful warm conditions.
Enjoy the weekend!
Josh and Beth are ordering seeds for his Canard farm today.
The greenhouse is full of trays again full of seeds to produce lots of greens to come in 4 weeks. The onions, romaine and pac choi have popped up in their pots.
I need to get to the basement and start the bean sprouts for next week.
The driveway is messy with these wonderful warm conditions.
Enjoy the weekend!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Marketing Caravan
Today I am attending a seminar that has been put on by the Canadian Farm Business Management Council , the NS Department of Agriculture and a bunch of others called Hop on Board the Marketing Caravan: Success. I am up at the Old Orchard, it has a great view of Greenwich and the Cornwallis River.
Jolene Brown was the main presenter this morning. She spent to morning teaching us that the pace, people, process and products have all changed. And that we need to be able to get on board with the changes if we want to be "in the game". One thing that she mentioned is Google. She asked us what our top three words would be to find ourselves on google. I don't know really. What words would you type into Google to find us?
Then we talked about customers and that basically people are looking for time, youth, health, safety and an experience. If we are able to provide these 5 things then we have more chances of gaining and retaining happy customers.
This afternoon we are hearing about how to connect with the media and get them talking about our agribusinesses.
Just a noontime update. Hey - do any of you use Twitter? Do you like it?
Jolene Brown was the main presenter this morning. She spent to morning teaching us that the pace, people, process and products have all changed. And that we need to be able to get on board with the changes if we want to be "in the game". One thing that she mentioned is Google. She asked us what our top three words would be to find ourselves on google. I don't know really. What words would you type into Google to find us?
Then we talked about customers and that basically people are looking for time, youth, health, safety and an experience. If we are able to provide these 5 things then we have more chances of gaining and retaining happy customers.
This afternoon we are hearing about how to connect with the media and get them talking about our agribusinesses.
Just a noontime update. Hey - do any of you use Twitter? Do you like it?
Snow day & Missing Items
For those of us in Kings County - we will do the pick up and deliveries tomorrow - Thursday.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
For those in Halifax and Dartmouth - I understand that there were a few missing items in some shares. Please let me know if you were missing something and next week we can add it in. I am really sorry about that. We have a new(wonderful) person helping out a bit and I have learned a valuable lesson in having procedures in place. I always double and triple check the boxes but I didn't explain that I do that. I now have a CSA box procedure typed up so we can be sure to have consistently full boxes.
Enjoy the snow.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
For those in Halifax and Dartmouth - I understand that there were a few missing items in some shares. Please let me know if you were missing something and next week we can add it in. I am really sorry about that. We have a new(wonderful) person helping out a bit and I have learned a valuable lesson in having procedures in place. I always double and triple check the boxes but I didn't explain that I do that. I now have a CSA box procedure typed up so we can be sure to have consistently full boxes.
Enjoy the snow.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
February 15
Last week was another wild week of driving about. There was a public meeting for the NS Ag Land Review in Stewiacke on Wednesday evening and one with the council of leaders of the NS Federation of Agriculture on Thursday in Debert. There was a great turn out of nearly 100 people in Stewiacke. Although I am still here working and then driving about for meetings I begin to feel disconnected to what is happening here. It can happen so fast - I guess because things grow and change so fast on the farm.
The chicks are bigger and their fluff is quickly being replaced by not as cute feathers.
The sprouts have grown for another week and are ready to be bagged up this AM.
The greens in the greenhouse are ready to be harvested.
The new plantings of mizuna, pac choi, romaine and swiss chard have all popped up through the soil.
Josh and I went on a fun date Friday night. We were invited to the Joel Plaskett concert in Windsor. We had a lovely meal at the Cocoa Pesto Woodshire Inn and then heard some great tunes.
We headed out to the pond and skated on Saturday and Sunday. The ice is still very nice. My back is aching the morning from skating so much.
I hope you have a great day! I am off this morning to help out in Izaak's classroom for an hour and then back here to get ready for share day tomorrow:)
Mid February - whoa - we are on the home stretch.
The chicks are bigger and their fluff is quickly being replaced by not as cute feathers.
The sprouts have grown for another week and are ready to be bagged up this AM.
The greens in the greenhouse are ready to be harvested.
The new plantings of mizuna, pac choi, romaine and swiss chard have all popped up through the soil.
Josh and I went on a fun date Friday night. We were invited to the Joel Plaskett concert in Windsor. We had a lovely meal at the Cocoa Pesto Woodshire Inn and then heard some great tunes.
We headed out to the pond and skated on Saturday and Sunday. The ice is still very nice. My back is aching the morning from skating so much.
I hope you have a great day! I am off this morning to help out in Izaak's classroom for an hour and then back here to get ready for share day tomorrow:)
Mid February - whoa - we are on the home stretch.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
skating, chickens and brussels sprouts
Yesterday the chicks didn't make it to Enfield until 6 PM so I left the Dartmouth pickup and booted it to Enfield to meet the large transport truck of chicks. They would have hatch within the past 24 hours. Brand New. I got home at 8:30PM and the kids ran down to the basement to help settle them into the bins we have in the greenhouse.
It was a really neat feeling to be pulling up behind a transport truck and being passed two cardboard boxes of chicks. They peeped all the way home.
Josh reports that this morning they are running all around happy as can be. If you want to see them while they are still cute - you might like to come over in the next few days.
Izaak is helping to the shell the popcorn. We purchased this corn sheller and walnut hauler from Pleasant Hill Grain.
Malcolm is washing and bagging the brussels sprouts over in Canard. These are the last of the brussels sprouts.
We had a fun time on the ice on Sunday. The kids are enjoying some hot cocoa.
Josh took this of the Canard River. This is the view as your drive across the Wellington Dyke Rd. The river is magnificent most of the time.
It was a really neat feeling to be pulling up behind a transport truck and being passed two cardboard boxes of chicks. They peeped all the way home.
Josh reports that this morning they are running all around happy as can be. If you want to see them while they are still cute - you might like to come over in the next few days.
Izaak is helping to the shell the popcorn. We purchased this corn sheller and walnut hauler from Pleasant Hill Grain.
Malcolm is washing and bagging the brussels sprouts over in Canard. These are the last of the brussels sprouts.
We had a fun time on the ice on Sunday. The kids are enjoying some hot cocoa.
Josh took this of the Canard River. This is the view as your drive across the Wellington Dyke Rd. The river is magnificent most of the time.
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