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Our organic farming season is slowly coming to an end giving us more freedom to take spontaneous day offs almost anytime we want 🙂 A couple of weeks ago, we decided to go back to visit downtown Toronto again. This time we came across many interesting roads, paths […]
A day off visiting downtown Toronto made us realize how beautiful and vibrant the city is and how much exposure to nature the Torontonians have. Swans, Double-Crested Cormorants, Geese, and Monarchs are among the creatures we’ve encountered at the base of lake-shore in downtown Toronto.
It started as an experiment. On a rough and harsh clay soil we planted little tiny organic carrot seeds called Cosmic Purple. Due to rough conditions of the soil we did’t have much of expectations and with doubts crossing out minds we knew that the carrots will have […]
The great weather  and 30 + Celsius that we now have in September allowed our organic sunflowers  (Russian Mammoth and Giganteus) to “open” and show their true colors; finally.  The pollinators literally occupy the plants in search for the sweet nectar to bring it to their hives, their […]
Surprise, Surprise, this morning upon arriving at the farm we found a snake taking a nap in the bail of straw. We use the straw to cover the soil to prevent the sun from drying out all the moisture in the soil. Having a snake on the farm […]
Recently there has been a lot of things going on on the farm. Between frequent raining and rare sun days both of us are coming to the farm in order to accomplish as much as we can. At this time of the growing season (August) we no longer […]
We love cilantro in our salads and its health benefits; therefore, we plant cilantro “crazy” during the season to have the ability to eat it every day. Today we cut a fresh bunch of organic cilantro and at the same time we planted a few new rows of […]
So far it looks as if this season is not going to be abundant in tomatoes on our farm. We’ve planted about 60 bushes of variety of tomatoes however, the plants are not strong and large enough to produce. We believe the reason behind it is the cool […]
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