New additions to the farm: Green House, BCS and worms

Oops, slight delay in getting my entry online due to my non-techy brain struggling with video. Still haven't worked out how to get it online so we'll just have to stick with photos and text for now. (how old fashioned). Jamie has been working double time to get the greenhouse up (and plants out of the house). We had a historic (and very long day) on Sunday, as we finally stretched the plastic over the greenhouse racing to beat the storm that was coming. Many thanks to Sam, Marcus and Roger who helped. We've also been having a laugh with some new additions to the farm. I got some worms and Jamie got a BCS tiller. His toy is much more fun (yes, I have already driven it into a tree allowing us to test out the emergency eject-seat buttons which thankfully were very effective). It's actually a bit of a beast which my little hands find difficult to control, Jamie thinks it will do the job nicely. As for the worms, they just don't seem to be behaving. Rather than stay put in their cosy bin, we find them crawling all over the kitchen in the morning. We've got guests staying at the mo (Jamie's ma and little sis) who we are putting to work and they are doing a very fine job. Rain has stopped play today. Will update with our progress soon. We are planting stuff and it's getting very exciting!!

THE BCS and Trailer

Ready for plastic

Laying the plastic

Farmer Jamie in action



Still working!! nearly there....

Spring is coming (apparently)

While we may have celebrated the spring equinox and are enjoying the extra hours of daylight (well actually that just means more work time!), I wouldn't be totally confident to herald that spring has arrived. Like most things in the maritimes, what's the rush? We got overly excited at the sight of grass again and then our hopes were dashed by another couple of snow falls. The daffs I fear are digging their way to Australia.
Progress on the greenhouse is steady and Jamie is beavering away as fast as his frozen fingers will allow. Until its completion we will continue sharing the house with thousands of seedlings who are battling for daylight and warmth. Eddie has found something serious to growl at under our deck (and it growls back- yikes!) and unfortunately another of our cockerels has turned against me.

Green house phase 1 - surveying

Green house phase 2 - digging

Green house phase 3 - working out the angles!

Green house phase 4 - oh that's what it's going to look like

Cold day at the beach/iceberg

Tapping Maples

As the snow finally melts, Jamie is fulfilling a lifelong ambition to make his own maple syrup. We've only tapped a few trees, that seems to be the easy bit...then there's the boiling, and boiling and boiling.
However despite all the faff, I've got to admit the end result is very tastey!

We're also finding it a great novelty to be able to see grass again, albeit brown and squashed. However since no more snow on the ground means we might need to start doing some farming, there is a slight panic in the air.