3 little quilts for 3 little babies who will pretty much be forced to be friends based on their mothers and sisters need to eat and chat. They look and feel great, but I have never struggled with such fussy little quilts as these. They buckled and bunched and wouldn’t line up and made me […]
I’m Big! Rebecca’s Third Birthday
Rebecca woke up this morning at the farm, stood on the bed, and declared “I’m Big!” She’s right; Somehow it’s her third birthday. Not quite sure how that happened. We started celebrating by letting her pick as many tomatoes as she wanted. We’ve just arrived back in the city and apparently that means she wants […]
My Parent’s First Visit to the Farm & What to do with all Those Zucchinis
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 […]
Wordless Wednesday: Self Portrait with Wild Blueberries
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 […]