Well, the seasons have officially changed! The sun is coming up later each day, and although it isn’t cold yet, there is a chill in the air in the morning and evening. In the garden, the vegetables are ripening quickly and although not all our crops were a success, we have more than enough fruit…
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Things I Like | September 2017
Yay for school holidays – and not a minute too soon. Every year teaching seems to take more and more of my energy, and the holidays are so needed. That’s not to say that I’ve not got work to do over the holidays. Between marking, planning, and catching up on whatever I didn’t get finished…
Spring Vegetable And Ricotta Tart
We have been super excited to watch our asparagus patch finally yield us some delicious morsels. Asparagus takes several years before you can eat the stems, so when they started poking their heads out we were ready. Unfortunately, if you forget to pick them, the aspargus shoots grow very quickly and become woody. We’ve been…
Four Favourites | Tomatoes
We’ve been picking tomatoes every day lately. Kilograms and kilograms of them. We’ve been taking them down to the post office to sell them (also the unofficial shop), as well as selling them directly to locals, and cooking them up and freezing them to make soup this winter. We’ve even tried drying them. If you…
In Our Vegie Patch | February 2016
After a slow start (those pesky earwigs), the garden is now full of produce. Each day Country Boy is harvesting boxes of tomatoes, eggplants, zucchinis, and corn. The tomatoes started later than they have in previous years. The plants took longer to get established with all those earwigs trying to eat them. They may have…
What To Do With Extra Fruit And Vegetables
Anyone who has ever grown their own food knows this problem: One day you have hardly any fruit or vegetables, and the next day all the plants are ready to harvest and you have more than you can possibly eat. On the farm this is a constant issue for us. The plum trees are suddenly…
How Big Is Your Garden?
I often get asked how big our is garden. When people read about the amount of produce we grow, that is the number one question that follows. It’s one of the questions I’m most reluctant to to answer, mainly because I think it can be off putting. Ultimately, it is not how big your garden…
I’m Not Here…
When I was at the Problogger conference a few weeks back, I had dinner with Kate from Rosehips and Rhubarb, Lizzie from Strayed from the Table, and Kyrstie from A Fresh Legacy. It’s always fun to meet people who you know on the internet in real life (and of course they were lovely – just…
