Soon I’ll in asia for a couple of months, and will not be updating this blog until my return to Quadra in early February. 2012 promises to be a very exciting year on our fledgling farm, and I’ll have lots to share on this blog, so please check back in a couple of months. Thanks [...]
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Tagged: Hiatus
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- November 24, 2011 – 9:57 am
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Not long after we arrived on this land, in the late winter of this year, we experienced a period of heavy rain and snowmelt, after which parts of the field flooded. We accepted the possibility that we would perhaps have to dig a series of surface ditches to prevent future flooding. We decided we’d work [...]
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Tagged: Drainage
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- November 22, 2011 – 8:28 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- November 19, 2011 – 10:29 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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Tagged: Plants
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- November 18, 2011 – 4:52 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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Tagged: Plants
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- November 16, 2011 – 4:23 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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Tagged: Plants
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- November 15, 2011 – 6:45 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- November 14, 2011 – 6:36 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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Tagged: Plants
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- November 13, 2011 – 6:26 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- November 12, 2011 – 6:17 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
The Rouge de Verone radicchio I direct-seeded on the 3rd of August hasn’t formed heads yet, which is a minor disappointment. The spinach and romaine lettuce I planted in the same bed grew beautifully, and have now all been harvested, and now I’m left with a bed of immature radicchio. My plan had been to [...]
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Tagged: Plants
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- November 11, 2011 – 9:00 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- November 6, 2011 – 6:26 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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Tagged: Plants
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- November 5, 2011 – 9:57 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Here is part two in my four hundred part series entitled “things we put in our truck”. Today I approached a young man raking leaves in his yard, and offered to do the raking for him, in exchange for my getting to haul the leaves back to the farm. He probably thought I was a [...]
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Tagged: Things We Put In Our Truck
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- November 3, 2011 – 9:53 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
We bought a truck for one thousand dollars from a very motivated seller in Campbell River yesterday evening. He had more need for an envelope full of cash than a vehicle after his fourth DUI charge, so we took it off his hands, along with five spare tires, a spare radiator, and a bunch of [...]
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Tagged: Peak Oil Peak Everything
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- November 2, 2011 – 9:32 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk