Farm Tour, Work Party and Potluck.

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Sunday, April 15th, 2018
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

ABOUT THE EVENT We are building a farm and would love to share our story, show you what we are up to and get some help with a few projects. We have a newly completed DIY greenhouse that used recycled wood and windows from the house renovation. We could get some helping painting it but there isn’t much to paint as it is mostly windows. If you like painting, we have a bunch of new honeybee boxes (supers) to paint (with no bees in them yet). We’ll also have a bunch more fruit trees to plant (holes are pre-dug). We may also need a hand (actually a bunch of hands) rock picking or load them into wheelbarrows to get our pasture ready for seeding this spring. Also, we have a possible project of constructing a chicken tractor.

HIGHLIGHTS We have animals on the farm that help us do work. Sheep keep the grass down, the pigs turn the soil, add organic matter, and remove weeds. The chickens scratch and work the soil. Our neighbour gives us tons of horse manure that we are using to build soil in a dry gravelly area that we will be one of our chicken tractor fields.