Day 13

All Day: Rainy day in the Greenhouse

I looked outside this morning to see a misty morning with heavy dark clouds, just like last night. We worked with Moritzio and Lisa all day in the green house. We started with cleaning off all the Aphids from some pepper and eggplants, by hand. It was kinda strange feeling them crawling all over your hand when you can barely see them move. Then we potted on some different variations of tomatoes until dinner at 5:30.

Evening: Six Nations Talk

After dinner and cleanup we had two guest speakers come and talk about six nations treaty and how the government is slowly wearing away at aboriginal reserves. There were two speakers, a man who had attended the picketing off highway 6 and a young Indian women who talked about her childhood and about what it was like to live on a reserve. It was a very moving talk that really inspired me, maybe I'll change my civics project to this topic!

Day 12

All Day: Weeding

Today we spent the entire day weeding two long beds near Green Haven. One full of beets the other of Turnips. We also had a visit from a bunch of kids from a school who came to get a bit of a farming experience. I must say i realize how much better i am at weeding then when I started, seeing them weed like we did when we first came was entertaining.

Day 11

Morning: Weeding

We started this morning with Brenda, Brenda, Yahuda, and Lisa, together we weeded through beets, radishes (yum), and carrots. We Did this all morning and we had a nice surprise from Shanta when she came out and asked us all whether we wanted tea, coffee and even buttered, home-made muffins! We all 'placed our orders' and went back to work. When she brought our snacks we took a five minute break and then worked until 12:30.

Afternoon: Transplanting more Kale Kohlrabi

For the afternoon we continued our work with the Kale and Kohlrabi in east field. Eventually we ran out of the certain type we were transplanting so we went back to the field near Green Haven with the kale and tools. When we got there i used a 'Wheel Plow' to plow out some beds for the kale real quick. Which resulted in two ripe blisters, one on each palm of my hands - painful.

Dinner:2 Birthdays and a gooood meal

I just felt I had to post about this too; Today for dinner we had home-made fries, home-made burgers, and home-made cakes. - yes cakeS since there were 2 birthdays, and me and nigel stuffed ourselves on it. The birthdays were mine and Ossi's.

Weekend

We had a great weekend, staying up really late and snacking on our ration of junk food. Also Erich's birthday was on Saturday, but we are officially celebrating it on Monday. Happy Birthday Erich!!

Day 10

All Day: Transplanting Kale and Kohlrabi

After our usual routine, we went to the East field to start a long day of transplanting. It was really hot and tiring work, but we got through it eventually. We planted about two beds full, going in three long rows down the center of the bed. Just a side note, when we first got here, and we did our first transplanting, I could only stay in a squatting position for 10-15 minutes. But now, two weeks later, I can stay in a squatting position for over an hour without my knees cramping up at all! After dinner we went out and saw Angel and Demons at the friendly local Orangeville Cineplex. It was a pretty good movie with an interesting plot twist at the end, I would recommend seeing it.

Day 9

All Day: Transplanting Leeks & Kale

Today we did our usual morning routine, then headed out to the back vegetable gardens to help with transplanting. Both of the farm managers (Gram & Yahoda) were away picking up fair trade coffee and chocolate from Gram's former business partner in Toronto, so we worked with Moritzio and Lisa all day. It was really hot and the work was very repetitive, considering that we were planting 500+ plants over the course of the whole day.

Day 8

Morning: Rise and Sh-Mulch

Today we accidentally forgot to set the alarm and got woken up 2 hours and 20 minutes late(10:00am), threw on some clothes and ran out the door to find a disappointed Brenda doing our job with the chickens. We helped her finish that and began our day.

Brenda showed us where the next row of tree that needed to be mulched were. We did one load and then went in for a very quick breakfast. After breakfast we worked on the mulching with Lisa until we finished the row.

Afternoon: Transplanting leeks

After lunch we went out to East-Field and helped transplant leeks, and did we ever plant a LOT of leeks. we did three rows per bed and spacing of 6 inches +/-. over all i think we planted about 1000+ leeks today.