‘Harvest Day’ for us means a bustling Friday, when the harvest for the Bulkley Valley Farmers’ Market on Saturdays gets picked and we lay the groundwork for the Hazelton Farmers’ Market on Sundays. On a drizzly mid-summer harvest day this season, we were happy to welcome photographer Aaron Whitfield to document the harvest as anContinue reading “Harvest Day 2019”
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Summer 2017
A late August snapshot of our season in the market garden, slow beginnings this year but coming on well now.
Winter Dormancy
The fall-seeded wheat is coming out of its winter dormancy, as are the animals .
Summertime
Happy Summertime! The chicks are sure loving being outside…
Fanning Mill
Cleaned this year’s rye harvest with the ol’ Cockshutt No2 fanning mill, ready for the stone mill. Moved the ‘granary’ shipping container to its permanent home behind the tractor shed, now to build a roof over it before the snow falls…
harvest time
It’s been a busy month with harvesting and the last of the markets. Now the garden is tilled, the root cellar is full, squash is curing, rye is ready for milling and the straw is in the barn.
Garden 2013
All in all, a pretty happy year in the garden for most growing things.
Small-scale grains
It was a pleasure to take part in the small-scale grain growing talk in Smithers the other night; it’s always lots of fun to meet so many people interested in grains and have a show-and-tell of heirloom wheats. Thanks willing worker Fabrizio for the photos of the threshing and winnowing demonstrations.
Garden 2012
After another cool, wet start to the growing season, the garden is finally coming into it’s own. First beans for the market this week.
Wheat
The sun finally shone long enough to ripen the wheat, about 5 acres of heirloom Red Fife.
WoodGrain Farm 