Veggies Begin…
Even though we are still busy planting our gardens, we have started harvesting already! What is your favourite recipe for rhubarb? Bonus points if it includes chives 🙂
Prepping for bees
To bee or not to bee, that is the question… Well, we’ve decided to bee. That is to say that we are setting up 2 hives at the farm, and getting our first taste of beekeeping, and, hopefully honey as well. The hives we…
First Winter on the Farm
Our first winter on the farm was awesome.
Filled with many visits from friends and family, we tapped 30 trees and tried to produce our first maple syrup. Some of the first 30 trees we tapped weren’t the right kinds of maples, but now we’ve got it.
Home
We are home. i am happy to be home.Nanook went crazy when we got home. tomorrow is the last day of school.
Day 40: Home
It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald The trip home: It took us a while to get home from San Diego. The…
Day 39: Panoramic Trail
Our awesome hosts took us on a hike to Panoramic Trail near a town called Borega Springs. That area is so weird! There are no real trees, just shrubs and cacti in every direction. The hike was only about a mile, so you’d think…
Day 38: San Diego Zoo!
“You can’t find happiness at the end of your journey if you didn’t bring it with you all along.” We decided that we haven’t seen enough animals on this trip, so we had better go to see one last zoo. Did you know? Some…
Day 37: Annie’s Canyon and Moonlight Beach
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure that some of them are dirt.” We went for a hike today at Annie’s Canyon which was really neat. It is a very short hike up through some narrow paths carved into sandy stone….
Day 36: Getting to San Diego
This was another travel day in getting from Narita to San Diego. We flew through Vancouver and had a 3.5 hour layover. It made for a long trip…. But we arrived in San Diego to some nice warm weather, which was great. Air Canada…
Day 35: Narita and Traveling
Our last day in Japan. We are sad to be leaving but honestly pretty ready to go back home, see family, friends and Nanook, and get back into our routines. And some of us are a little hungry for food we are more accustomed…
