May's coming

The dubois order is in, which is always a bit of an exercise in reassurance – see at Dubois they sell all these fantastic systems for irrigating your crops, which, if you change farms every year like I do, leads to all sorts of different permutations of valves, driptape, header hose, etc that could possibly be used to get water to the crops.

This year, at the bakker farm, there isn’t a really solid source of water for the crops. The household well runs dry at full pressure in a half hour, which isnt gonna cut [...]

The first farm blog posting!

So it is early April. .. things have been very warm and dry for the last few weeks, which is making us very eager to get into the fields and start planting. My friend Alex, who has very sandy soil on his farm in Quebec, has already planted carrots, spinach, beets and lettuce – super early! Normally we don’t get to plant before the 20th of April outside. Our plot for early veggies is still too wet to work up, so we are still waiting. Hopefully the upcoming rain wont delay things too much!

This week [...]