keepin it simple

There Are Those Who Love To Get Dirty

There are those who love to get dirty

and fix things.

They drink coffee at dawn,

beer after work,

And those who stay clean,

just appreciate things,

At breakfast they have milk

and juice at night.

There are those who do both,

they drink tea.

Gary Snyder (1930-)

quietly creating

margit has been firing away to create work for some upcoming shows. the pic captures a late night quiet moment in the kiln room. here is her schedule for the next little while adn as a result the studio gallery will be a little barren if you come by. call before you do. there is always tea.

Circle Craft Christmas Fair in Vancouver, Nov 11-15, 2009, Out-of-Hand in Victoria, Nov 20-22, our Open House here at the Artfarm, Dec 5-6.

See the following links for more information -

www.circlecraft.net/page129.htm

www.outofhand.ca

tasting tea

with the farmers market season now over for us we are turning our energy in new directions. saturday the 7th we will be at the duncan garage and we will be featuring some of the teas that are already being sold packaged and in bulk at the community farm store.

http://www.communityfarmstore.ca/

11am to 3pmish

we always have tea available at the farm. well thursdays through sunday 10am-4pm. and these days call ahead so we can best accommodate you.
i like this picture. i like what it has to say...

nuff said...

not so sweet

in our first year of farming we have had some successes and some unsucesses. the sweets were nice but we suffered a big frost followed by several days of rain. bruised and split sweet potatoes aint a pretty sight. crying farmers aint a pretty sight either. oh well.

enough survived for us to determine what the best varieties will be for next year and oh boy are we gonna have fun doing a better job of soil preparation and getting them in way earlier.

so if ya take the good with the bad... the good has certainly been the potatoes. our fingerlings are simply exquisite and the best potatoes in the westholme valley!

how sweet it is

it is harvest season and farming sort of took priorities. so here we are a month since our last blog and we are so excited to be showing you our sweet potato happiness. this has been an amazing summer for growing and we have had fun experimenting with melons as well. we are digging up the sweets today and will have them at the markets soon. fingerling potatoes are coming out daily so look for them or let us know if you want some. we will post more pictures soon too.

growin'

so this is what has been growin' on lately.
carrots in the shape of teapots have been popping up as the result of margit's intense focus on creating teapots for her show in qualicum.

http://www.theoldschoolhouse.org/exhibitions/current2.htm

we have artichokes that will be at the saturday duncan farmers market in the square downtown duncan 9am-3pm. when trimmed they look like green roses!


we grew a seven pound broccoli and continue to have them at both makaria farm market on tuesdays. thats just off the trans canada on bench road south of duncan 4-630 pm.

and check out the sun flowers. definetly a sunny summer!