My parents came to visit the farm for the first time last week. They were our very first visitors and they make no secret that they think we have lost our minds by taking on this project. Their visit just happened to coincide with a major heat wave and drought conditions. So after a few […]
Riverdale Farm with Farmers Feed Cities
Now that we’ve officially started on our farming adventure we’ve been taking every opportunity we get to talk to farmers of all sorts. So when our family was recently invited to meet some Ontario Farmers at Riverdale Farm as part of #freshfromthefield the answer was a definitive yes. Farmers that actually wanted to talk to the city […]
Bumble Bee Bumble
We’ve been trying to use some our pre-baby-delivery nesting drive to get some work done at the farm. Some of the most useful space (and shade) we have is in two giant vehicle sheds. They’re full of some pretty amazing stuff, old chairs, glass lids for jars, random cow milking aparatus. You know, amazing stuff. […]
Instagram Updates. Now with More Scapes.
There’s so much going on right now that I’m having trouble writing any of it down. It’s all good, just a little dizzying. Here’s a few quick instagram shots from the last few days and a promise that I will finish and hit publish on a bunch of half written posts.
We’re Having a Sale! A Barn Sale for the Actual Barn!
This is our barn. Our Loyalist Ontario English Style Dairy Barn. It’s Lovely. This is Rebecca ready to fix the barn. Build for optimal wind over the threshing floor means the winds get quite strong. This spring, we bought a barn and then the door promptly blew off . We can fix it, but it […]