Just catching up after a nice weekend away in Niagara Falls. Living in Toronto, we’ve been many times and each season has it’s perks. The mist is cool in the summer, the icicles are stunning in the winter, Niagara Parks plants amazing gardens in the Spring. In Autumn it’s the gorgeous colours in the changing […]
Our Heirloom Apple Abandoned Orchard Adventure
2. Back at the end of our epic road trip this summer I asked Ryan if he could arrange for us to come back to the farm in the fall. It looked like the apples in the old orchard were going to be plentiful and what better way to spend our wedding anniversary than by […]
Heirloom Apple Orchard Identification Project
As mentioned in some previous posts, our friend owns a farm in Prince Edward County. At Breezy Acres there are a variety of apples growing in an abandoned orchard. Some of the trees are 150 years old and are part of the original United Empire Loyalist Farm. We’d love to start identifying some of these heirloom […]
Wordless Wednesday: Solar Oven Tomatoes
Visited the farm. Picked some pear tomatoes. Popped them in the awesome solar oven for the day. Shared them with internet friends at a preserve swap and tasting. How satisfying.
Kinmount Farmer’s Market
As the last stop on our month long road trip, we are cottaging (cottage is a verb in Canada) near Kinmount Ontario. Normally we bring all our groceries from Toronto but because we’ve been away that just wasn’t possible this year. What a pleasant surprise to find most of what we need at the the […]