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A few hens enjoying their new home in our portable rickshaw style coop.
We built an easy access hatch on the outside for egg removal.
We were able to bring some ancient rhubarb plants from the home farm, and thankfully they all survived the move.
We recently returned to the old farm on Plank Line to harvest our garlic, planted last October.
We are now just around the bend from the Sweaburg Swamp, south of Woodstock.
It may be small, but we have big plans for this piece of land!!
Jesse simultaneously filling sand bags and digging us an irrigation pond, one trowel at a time.
A map showing our future plan, with pasture in front, 9 veggie fields, a greenhouse, and a pond.
We are using large plastic silage tarps to help kill off the perennial pasture grass where our veggie beds will be next year.
Rhubarb has made a miraculous recovery, and is the first crop established in what will be our perennial orchard windbreak strips.
A view of the front field from the shed.
Garlic is hanging to dry in the shed. This year we harvested around 2100 bulbs of Music, a hardneck variety.
Jesse is using our new Berta rotary plow to create raised beds.
Adding composted manure to a field block before planting an oats & peas cover crop.
First steps in preparation for the new greenhouse, attempting to adjust to slope that exists on the majority of the property.
Oats & Peas are the first cover crop to germinate this fall.
Jesse marks rows for planting garlic.
And the garlic is in for 2018!!! 8 beds this time, each 50′ long.
Jesse is trying out a flex-tine rake for weeding thread-stage weeds, and aerating the soil surface in the hoophouse. Spinach is growing very slowly by this time of year (early December).
And we have a new logo! Courtesy of the very talented Amanda over at amandadevries.com
And the new greenhouse project is underway! This daunting cathedral will house tender greens over winter, and tomatoes and peppers all summer, as well as provide us a cosy place to start seedlings in the springtime.
The beginnings of our orchard arrived just as some early snow did in November. Here sisters Rhea and Emalee and nephew Jack brave the cold to get the job done.
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And the fall brassicas are in!! We hope to harvest and sell these babies from late October to January through our Fall CSA and Saturdays at the downtown Kitchener market. Feels like the seasons are shifting, but there is still plenty of good growing weather ahead.
A fresh bed of chard on a beautiful harvest day morning. And baby head sized onions. #oxfordfresh #woodstockon #oxfordcounty
And the 2019 garlic crop is harvested and hung to dry! Lots of human, canine, and amphibian helpers out today, to get the job done. We pulled 3000 of Music variety, and ended up with a high percentage of truly massive bulbs!! #ontariogarlic #musicgarlic #woodstockon #oxfordfresh #dogsandfrogs #babysfirstgarlic #thankyourain
Road side #farmstand now open daily! Hours: (approximately) 10am - 8pm. #oxfordfresh #vegetables conveniently located just minutes from #Woodstock on #Sweaburg Road. #tomatoes #garlic #cucumbers #zucchini #eggplant new #potatoes #freerange #eggs #hotpeppers For a wider variety of vegetables join our #csa or visit us at the #dtkitchener #kitchenermarket from 7am - 2 pm every Saturday! #eatlocal #knowyourfarmer #farmsmallfarmsmart #marketgarden
From around the farm.... Tomatoes after another big haircut, sweet potatoes rescued from the weeds (thanks for your help @veggie_grower), mixed beds, thirsty potatoes, the tallest squash plants I've ever seen, and an obligatory onion photo. Now come on thunderstorms, throw something at us. #carpetsofchamomile
Onions are soaking up irrigation water and swelling visibly daily. Coming soon to your dinner table!
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