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New seed swap and buy website

jennifer — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:06:10 +0000

Last week we recieved an e-mail from our contact form. Now half the time these are just a form of people generated spam, but we do get some good ones too. Anna-Monique send a really good e-mail. She and her family started a website called Seed Living (seedliving.ca). It is a swap, buy site for [...]

Our first chicks!

jennifer — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:22:29 +0000

We have had our first homegrown chicks hatch today. So far we have three happy and healthy chicks. Hall and Oates have been co-sitting on the eggs. They seem to be quite happy to share the responsibility of being a Mum.

I have just helped a fourth chick out of it’s shell which it [...]

The Big Dig

jennifer — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:59:31 +0000

This past season we have had some successes and some not so successes. One of our not-so-successes has been our nightshades, particularly our tomatoes and potatoes. Our eggplants seem to be okay but we don’t have a lot. Much like last year our tomato and potato plants got late blight. This is a nasty “water mold” [...]

Looking through new eyes

jennifer — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:41:55 +0000

Some of the gardens about to explode.

It has been REALLY busy here over the last little while. It always seems that the gardens go without a lot of change for a few weeks then…WHAMMO, everything is ready all at once. Which of course means doing something with the bounty of the garden. Along with [...]

St. Catharines to allow urban chickens

jennifer — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:17:25 +0000

Chickens are once again taking over Canadian cities. St. Catharines is the latest Ontario city to allow urban chickens. Read more…

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