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Jan
28
Nov
20
The harvest season is only just behind us, but already looking ahead at the next. Saving seeds gives you the advantage of having enough seeds for the next few years, but it is also fun to grow new varieties. Also markets change and customer demands change. Enough to keep busy looking around for new things to grow.
In the old days when everyone saved their own seed, these open pollinated varieties mixed a lot. This gave us the great variety of food we have now and also made plants more disease resistant. Now markets demand all similar shaped and sized food, so it eases the use and packaging. It sure can be handy and it works in a large industrial scale, but personally i find more satisfaction in these odd shaped veggies and other botanical surprises you may find in your garden.
Nov
18
Also farmers need a little bit of time off. My parents’ 40th wedding anniversary we celebrated in some of the oldest agricultural areas in the world.
The pyramids are an amazing site to visit. The scale of the pyramids really blows you away when you stand next to it , or walk around it on a camel.
Sep
29
Autumn is here. Sun, rain, sun rain. We are harvesting our pumpkins in between all the rain showers. Jenn pulled all these Halloween pumpkins out of the field today. If anyone wants these for their Halloween celebrations let me know and we can send them or deliver.
Sep
13
We are really busy on the land harvesting pumpkins and potatoes and in the greenhouse our heirloom tomatoes our showing their true colours. We have about 15 different tomatoes in all kinds of different shapes and shades. Right now we have an abundance of my favourites: purple russian and white peach. All mixed up in a tomato salad is a great surprise in different flavours and textures.
Sep
2
September and time for digging up our potatoes. Always a bit of a surprise to see what’s underneath all that dirt. We started out with our organic potatoes to get them ready for the Organic Festival in Sapporo this weekend.
The Toya and Kita Akari looked good, above expectation. The excessive rains this summer didn’t do much to please our spuds. Their life got terminated a bit early, but the yield was pretty good.
New potatoes are delicious, so come and get some this weekend in Sapporo or come and get them on the farm.
Sep
2
A member of the hibiscus family. Okra has beautiful flowers and attracts many insects. Easily used as an ornamental plant in the garden and tasty also.
Aug
30
A hungry goat is an angry goat. So to prevent that they got us working hard to make sure they got enough to eat during our long white winters.
I was not easy to dry grasses this summer with the enormous amout of rain we have had. But this week has been really nice and some true Hokkaido weather returned. The weather we all love so much.
Busy with a million things, but with more new rain coming we had to get the straw bales in, otherwise they would go bad. At least the goats will have plenty to eat and there may be enough left to make a start at the straw bale house i want to build.
Aug
23
Chilis come in a wide variety of shapes, colours and hotness. These chilis make a great border or pot plant and are handy to have around when you want to spice up your life a bit.
Aug
16
The lack of sunlight and dry days didn’t do much good to our purple friends here. Their season got terminated a bit prematurely, but we got some others coming on the way for autumn.
With the warm and wet weather from the past 6 weeks lots of leafy green are struggling and sending prices up. Even the fish are struggling and fishermen are not really catching any fish. Sanma, usually a cheapy, is rated at ¥800 and scallops and other shell fish are looking to get pretty pricey over the next months.