2009 farm blog
Our dog Gunner enjoying the farm life.
Happy pigs escaping the 30 degree weather.
Our first goji berries.
The heritage birds are all grown up.
Cara, Adam, and Luke working hard weeding the blackberries.
Kate playing with the chickens.
The Canadian Organic Grower's Vancouver Island Chapter farm tour and BBQ dinner.
Organic farm tour looking at our chicken tractors.
Evelyn is explaining the organic mulch we used for the blackberry beds.
Having a good time putting up our sign, How does it look?
The truffle trees are getting a little support.
Our strawberrie plants are starting to flower.
It's a chicken race :)
The blackberries are going to get an irrigation system.
Hot weather calls for a nice refreashing mud bath.
On June 4th Terra Nossa was part of a farm tour organized by the Cowichan Agricultural Society for elected officials to explore issues that are important to local agriculture and food security.
The Island Chef’s Collaborative hosted a great event called defending your backyard where people tasted local foods, wines, and beers.
Grandma playing with the laying hens.
A humming bird drops by for a drink.
This is a picture looking out from the old barn farm store.
Our eggs are as good as gold.
Here we are moving the laying hens' mobile home.
Satuday evening looking out at the truffle field.
Our laying hens have 5 acres to roam free.
The chickens enjoying fresh grass.
Our flowers are starting to bloom.
This will be a vegetable garden.
Our laying hens enjoying some fresh soil.
We have moved alot of material with this trailer.
The attatchment makes raised beds, lays mulch and drip tape.
These are our baby heritage birds of a wide variety. They will roam the farm as pets.
Preparing rows for our blackberries.
Keeping the weeds under control in between the echinacea rows.
Our laying hens enjoying the garden.
Evelyn is mowing the weeds.
Crazy winter snow.