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- Nova Scotia!
- September, a look back at summer, and big changes for the future
- A Quick Market Update
- Holy, hot
- Making Rhubarb Jelly (aka my first canning project!)
- Article in The Footprint Press
- The end of an era
- Who’d have thought? Finding farmers on Instagram
- Market News: where to find us & what we’ll have
- This Weather
- How I built our DIY cold frames
- Our first farmers market of the year this Saturday!
- In the press! Country Life in BC article
- The awesomeness of comfrey
- Pictured, Not Pictured
- Meet James, our newest farm helper
- Signs of Spring (in photos)
- Lessons from broad bean seedlings
- We have a polytunnel!
- Welcome to our new website!
- Blog changes…
- Gettin’ Certified (permaculture-style)
- Intentional Goal Setting
- This Time Last Year (Reflections from a new Market Gardener)
- Book recommendation: The Dirty Life
- Guest blog post: Early Days on the Farm
- A new kind of calendar (life informed by the seasons)
- A New Year; plus books, lists and films
- Merry Christmas!
- Teaching Kai To Grow Mushrooms (not that kind)
- Seed saving on a rainy afternoon
- From Nine to Five to Farm for Life
- Figuring it out…
- In the news: community leaders & pipeline protesters
- In the kitchen: pumpkin butter, veggie stock, & our own personal food challenge
- Loss and rest
- A visit to Red Barn’s farm
- Giving Thanks
- Local paper covers our new market business!
- Fall: Reflections & Photos
- A little piece about Vincent, our Runner Duck
- 5 days till GETI FEST!
- To-do lists and a week of no responsibility
- A gift from a market customer
- Bob, our guest gardener
- Market News: We’re joining the Royal City Farmers Market!
- A busy summer
- Haney Farmers Market at the Brookfield Farm this weekend!
- A post about our pets
- nothing lacking
- Snapshots from a summer day on the farm
- Love Lies Bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus)
- Before & After: Tent trailer gets second life as garden bed
- Just another Thursday on the Farm
- Becoming a Flower Farmer
- Kale: Our Farm Superfood
- Market Booth Feature: My Mom’s Baby Quilts
- Our first market day!
- Garlic Scape Pesto
- Field trip to Bullock’s Permaculture Homestead
- Kombucha: our DIY probiotic alternative to soda pop
- Our happy June edibles
- Slugs (and death by beer)
- Farm for Life stands against Bill C-38
- A quiet, rainy day on the farm (in photos)
- May: the month our garden started feeding us
- Too Busy Farming to Blog
- Chris Kasza joins the Farm for Life family!
- Rhubarb Muffins for a Rainy Day
- Saying farewell to some farm members
- Our first ducklings
- The pigs have landed!
- Earth Day, Cheers to the Planet, & our very own workshop!
- Free Permaculture Event in Vancouver coming up!
- Photos from our hotbed-making class
- Eating in season: Stinging Nettle Smoothies
- How to tell when your seedlings need more nutrients
- Timing is Everything: When to Plant on the West Coast
- Learn How to Build a Hotbed at our Farm this Weekend!
- Guest blog post by Leah Kostamo: Practicing Gratitude
- Seed Sharing at the Farm
- Growing Shiitake Mushrooms in Bags
- A Nesting Muscovy
- Field trip to Richmond’s Seedy Saturday
- Turning found objects into planter boxes
- A great visual guide to companion plants
- Getting interviewed on the radio!
- A visit from a PDC class
- Going confidently in the direction of our dreams
- Growing Food Course in Maple Ridge (plus notes on crop rotation)
- February Farm Family Meeting
- Starting seedlings in early February
- Seeds to start planting in February
- Planting spring bulbs in January
- Do-it-yourself, but not by yourself
- Cozy-ish inside, Arctic outflow outside
- Baked Pumpkin & Millet Pilaf
- Snow!
- Julie’s Reflections on 2012
- Our farming project featured in Country Life in BC
- 2011, A Year of Notable Lifestyle Changes
- New Years Resolutions
- Announcing our newest farm member
- A new camera!
- Merry Christmas!
- Announcement: New Blog Name!
- Vancouver Urban Farming Forum resources
- A small (but active) corner of the farm
- Sheet mulching with cardboard
- Garlic ‘seed’ saving
- The arrival of winter
- GROW! (and other awesome looking food films)
- The Richmond Sharing Farm & Bokashi
- October farm to-do-list
- Harmony Hill: our new farming friends across the Atlantic
- Harvesting seaweed for the garden
- Northwest Permaculture Convergence
- A visit from local high school students
- Vancouver Urban Farming Forum 2011
- GETI FEST Review
- We’re on Facebook!
- Visit us at GETI FEST!
- Julie featured in school garden story
- 18 New Farm Members
- One year later… now what?
- The Kindness of Strangers
- Farm is family
- Good Eats
- Farm Fruit Smoothies
- The Kai tickle series
- Kiwi Trellis
- Discovering nitrogen nodules
- from the garden to my lunch bowl in 20 minutes
- How to make kale chips
- A little community diggin’
- How to ‘specially’ bag your beans
- Featured in the Maple Ridge Times!
- prepping for a farm house transformation
- Kai gets all cute on us again
- video introduction: the chickens
- order & chaos
- golden hour
- baby chicks
- New Bounty
- Importing farm help from Ontario
- farm fitness
- Introduction to Permaculture
- Photos: an afternoon in the garlic patch
- a farm feast fundraiser
- Farm for a Year featured on Raw Lawyer
- Local Feature: Mark & his plants
- baby goats & horse poop
- Farm for a Year mentioned in Legislative Assembly of BC
- mycorrhizal what? (and square foot gardening)
- baby bunnies experience the chicken tractor
- May long weekend productivity
- the bear saga continues
- Sustainability?
- Soil Management Plan
- bear attack
- farm progress report: bit by bit
- a farm wedding
- young farmers unite
- romance on the farm
- piggy photos
- Photo: farm kids are hardcore
- hardware that can change people’s lives
- kids & baby bunnies
- baby bunnies come out to play!
- Farm for a Year in the Maple Ridge News
- the city & the country
- quiet moments on the farm
- pigs!
- farm work party: the ‘party’ part
- farm work party: brambles & swales
- farm work party: painting the pig pen
- farm work party: feasting table platform
- farm work party: the deep beds
- building the pig pen
- farmer kai
- combining the rabbit hutch & the compost system
- Compost Assignment
- Round One: Seed Planting
- farmhouse fireplace transformation
- seed sorting party
- unstuck (but not without leaving marks)
- an encouraging letter from a fellow farmer
- stuck
- hellooo herb spiral!
- cuddly fertilizers
- she’s a he?
- building a chicken tractor
- for the grandparents…
- introducing the ‘rabitat’ & other projects…
- poop & other mid-week adventures
- sunshine = farm productivity
- january reflections
- rabbits!
- Farm Planning
- baby goats!
- trailer design to aspire to
- Hi. . .I’m Chris
- blog update: archives up and running
- bonfires & hikes, resolutions & plans
- happy new year!
- a little bit of farm fame
- baby, it’s cold outside
- A Farm for the Future
- Untitled
- fathers & sons
- getting to know the *neigh*bours
- introducing the farmers
- another layer!
- no photo for a reason
- living in a trailer in sub-zero temperatures
- the siding project
- first snow!
- our first eggs!
- building deep beds
- broad beans & compost tea
- trailer drainage!
- an awesome farm weekend
- late october chores
- jackson
- Hello world!
- stars! moon!
- what DIDN’T we do this week?
- garlic! (and more fall planting)
- planting fruit trees!
- a real poopy situation
- checking out the local nurseries
- cousin love
- curb appeal
- free wood & woodchips!
- our first official farm work party!
- A visit from the masters of Six Masters’ Farm
- farm = community
- my birthday toilet
- city cats go wild
- 32nd birthday on the farm – mini update
- our first farm casualty
- the backyard homestead
- Autumn farm plans
- static electricity on the trampoline
- my composting toilet
- chickens!
- tomorrow things really get rolling…
- making the motor home *almost* ready
- surrey new & used
- gifted a trailer!
- passed!
- INSANE morning light at the farm today
- arrival of the propane tank
- daily photos? yeah, right.
- farm morning photo: day 2
- farm morning photo: day 1
- the gift of a truck
- PHOTO: golden hour & storm clouds at the farm
- sitting area almost complete!
- michael visits the farm
- ripping out the bathroom sink
- My Grandmother & the Women’s Land Army
- building the trailer bedframe
- tractor lessons
- picking a blog look
- trailer colour scheme, fergus becomes a farm cat, and coyotes…
- trailer decor: cushion covers
- PHOTOS: my morning walk
- visual inspiration
- the farm walkabout
- my best friend, the farm babe
- my first bear sighting on the farm
- Nathan & Trish share their trailer reno experience
- gettin’ around to some actual work
- Fergus & Lola explore the farm
- PHOTO: early morning light on the farm
- triple berry pancakes
- day 1 – the day I learned not to flush
- moving week
- from pots to plots
- the great purge
- trailer decor
- purslane: what it is, how to recognize it, and why you should eat it
- the trailer & the to-do list
- “$100,000 education and she wants to grow vegetables?”
- this is not my trailer
- the basics
- the email that started it all
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