Farm tours, gardening, CSA, rain...

Hi! I have been too busy to write recently, but finally I have made the time for it.

Last weekend we hosted a Farm Tour, put together by ACORN (Atlantic Canada Organic Regional Network). It was a lot of fun, and according to ACORN (and, well, us too!) a huge success. If you are interested pictures and more information, visit www.acornorganic.org . The farm looked very nice, and (somewhat) weed free. The farms involved were asked to make food samples; I made Deviled Eggs and Strawberry-Kale smoothies (visit my other blog, In the kitchen with Francesca, for those recipes).

In the gardens...
Well, everything is soggy, due to thundershowers on Sunday and rain all day Monday. Most things are growing pretty well (this includes weeds), though it has been a bit of a slow year. Our zucchini isn't really doing anything, which is odd because usually we have an abundance of it this time of year. Our tomatoes just don't seem to be ripening. Our beans are doing beautifully though! Another row of sugar snap peas are starting to produce now. This is also our first week of carrots; yay! A lot of cauliflower too...

CSA week nine: (almost halfway through)
Lettuce mix
Onions
Radish
Cauliflower
Beets
Kale
Swiss Chard
Beans
Carrots
New Potatoes
Cucumber
Bok Choy , and
Peas

Wow, that's quite a list.

The animals...
The little kitten, after numerous names (including: Boci, Sprout, Super Rat, Nefertiti, and many more), she has finally acquired the name "Phoebe".  Some people ask me if we only have one cat after reading this blog; to clear this up, no, we have four cats: Chubby Checkers, Corin, Beow, and Phoebe.

And, while we're at it; we also have six horses: Mulie, Billi, Buddy, Chief, Roscoe and Epona.  
  


                                                   This is Corin.