sadly it seems the main “readership” of the blog is spambots, but for all your real humans out there, specifically those of you who consume food to live; we will be baking bread this winter!
we’re taking order for all three of our specialties; yogurt-soaked wheat, rye, and spelt. if you haven’t tried the yogurt-soaked, you don’t know what you’re missing. it’s packed with quality ingredients like flax seed, millet, molasses, but it’s super soft and sweet. the rye and spelt loaves are simply classic and speak for themselves.
we’ll be baking thursday afternoon and delivering orders to Kamloops for pick up on Friday morning.
you do need to place an order ahead of time, so contact us Wednesday at the latest. for more info, a full ingredient list , or to place your order – ask for the baker, Kate, at 250-679-8421, or email us through the website. (except for you spambots, you could please STOP emailing us through the website).
hey everyone.
as you can see, we got a new website design and a new blog format. big thanks to illona for revamping the site for us, all the way from portland!
we haven’t really had a chance to sit down at the computer and learn how to use the new site; busy busy summer. we’ve had a lot of fun and did ALOT of work, with the help of our wwoofers, visitors, and our intern this season. we got the new strawberry patch weeded and mulched already, food preservation is in full swing with salsa canning and fruit drying, and we’ve even played some volleyball on the beach!
a good chance to come out and see us and the farm is, of course, the annual Golden Ears Corn Roast. Saturday, September 10th from 2ish until whenever. Potluck, variety show, and our friend Tony Robertson is going to play with his band in the evening.
Hope to see you there!
-kelsey
I’m personally happy to have made it through my first Golden Ears winter on the farm. It’s been a good time, but I’m excited for warm weather, hula hooping, plants growing and wwoofers.
We’re eagerly getting all our new projects underway, including…
The Golden Ears Bike Stand! Since it’s been warm enough to tune bikes without freezing our fingers off we’ve been pretty busy getting bikes ready to sell. So get in touch with us if you need to buy a bike, have a bike that needs repairs, or have an old bike (or a stack of old kids’ bikes) that you would like to donate to us.
Oh oh oh! We… are… having… PUPPIES! Well, Ella is having them. So if you are going to be looking for a puppy in the next month or so, let us know.
More detailed info on this later, but if you are interested in being involved in any yoga classes we will be offering this summer, just touch base with us so we can talk about scheduling and find out who might be interested, etc.
We’ve started planting and planning out in the garden:
- planted many rows of peas
- started transplanting onions
- some yummy spinach and chard has come up in the greenhouse
- the first garlic has been spotted popping out of the ground
- trays of everything else are started in the greenhouse; peppers, eggplant, cabbage, kale, tomatoes, broccoli… everything.
Lots of spring cleaning (aka putting old stuff on Craigslist) is happening here. PARTS of the farm are starting to look quite tidy!
Ok, to recap, CONTACT US about bikes, puppies, yoga, and/or books. Contacting us just to say ‘hi’ is also acceptable.
-kelsey
Hey everyone,
The Kamloops Farmer’s Market is starting up for the season, the first one happening this weekend, April 23rd. We will be there with the freshest of the fresh; lettuce, some spinach, and our smiling faces.
As well, the Chase Farmer’s Market starts up Friday, May 6th at a new and better time of 9:30-1:30. In addition to selling our local produce, we will have the Bike Stand doing repairs and sales.
Wherever you live, remember to support your local Farmer’s Market. Find out the market dates and live by them!
well i wrote a blog post and then lost it; how frustrating. oh well.. here goes again.
we’ve been quite busy lately, the group corn hoeing sessions have begun. we are making headway on killing all the weeds. the strawberries are looking pretty OK.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snekels/5848950180/
we still have 1 (or 2, depending on who you ask) of ella’s puppies left. they are about 7 weeks old, have great genetics, and would make a great addition to any family.
the fruit stand will be open June 16th, so we’ve started preparing for opening by making a ton of pies and cleaning up. the back of the fruit stand has never been tidier!
our friend neskie is still missing. he hasn’t been seen since mother’s day and nobody seems to have any idea where he is, except for a tip that he was seen in Vancouver. here is the poster with all the details.
-kelsey
Well that was a poorly maintained blog to say the least.
A quick point form recap
-strawberries were terrible this year
-raspberries good
-fruitstand has been very busy
-an incredible amount of corn from approx 7 acres
That is pretty limited info i know hopfully i will be able to prvide more detail later.
don’t forget about the corn roast
-tristan
Our poor neglected blog was beginning to be taken over by spambots, so I thought I better give a real update. Hopefully those spammers won’t be back, but please do not be fooled; we would never promote “Health Management Services!!! CLICK HERE!!!”, nor would we use that much exclamation.
So, what’ve we been up to over at Golden Ears?
Well our amazing basement renovation is coming together quite nicely. Before long we’ll be sitting around a rocket stove in our subterranean library!
When the conditions are right, we’re playing a lot of hockey out on the river. The ice is beautiful and it sure beats paying to skate around in an arena.
Despite the snowscape, we’re already getting the bike shop geared up for it’s exciting re-incarnation.
Other projects on the go (or upcoming) include wine making, wool spinning, and bee keeping.
It’s about that time to order seeds and start planning for spring. On that note, we’re beginning to get wwoofer requests for the spring already, so now is the time to email us if you’ve been thinking of spending some time with us this summer.
Hope 2011 is treating you all very well.
-kelsey
Stay warm friends!
Hey friends and lurkers,
Hope you are having a great winter!
We’re doing pretty well. The basement is coming along nicely; the hardwood floor is almost ready for a dance party (or a quiet reading session?). Paul has the loom all repaired and ready for use. We were very graciously given a sweet mini-van by a gentleman Tristan met while hitchhiking. Not too bad huh?
So spring is here without a doubt, everything is greening up if it is not already green.
We have been busy spring cleaning, including refinishing our house floor.
What have we got done, what are we doing still.
Well just today we relocated the last of approximately 500 asparagus plants. last thursday we hosted a group of 60 students, parent and staff of the Beatty school of the arts, a high point of the week for us and the attendees, one can read the testimony of one parent, Heather, below.
It’s the long weekend now and still a little chilly. I’m starting to think that the good meteorologist at enviroment canada has taken her/his vacation time. The predictions for the last few days have have been terrible. Last thursday we had a wind storm that was the strongest in years. My tree house(where i sleep) was doing a jig. All this rain is keeping everything green. The river is also making a late rise. On a normal year the river usually peaks in the first 2 weeks of may. This year it will come up short in terms of a high water mark but even to see it rise a few feet is heartening after such a terrible non-winter. Summer is coming non the less. Our pigs arrived Monday, yeah pigs.
point form list of spring accomplishments
-Asparagus saved, 500 plants relocated
-60 new fruit trees planted
-studio built(just waiting for the floor to dry)
-sauna improvements(river rock floor, cedar on the walls of the change room, shower stall tiled
-new(old) three point on the front of the small tractor(thanks Al)
-new filters for drip irrigation(thanks Al)
-new blades on our lilingston spider cultivator
-beginning to purchase 10 acres of adjoining land
-garden heaps turned into garden beds
So we have just experienced our first 2-3 days of weed killing weather.
we massacred weeds manualy, mechanicaly and with flame.
Manualy it is amazing what 20 poeple with hoes can do to cultivated corn 2 mornings and all of our early corn is done. Today i assembled a flame weeder for the front of our deere tractor and with the cultivater following up on the back we should have cut the amount of broad leaf weeds down considerably.
I guess some explanations are in order. We have to kinds of weeds broad leafs, and grasses.
Broad leafs include pig weed, lambs quarter, and the allways plentyfull canola. This group of weeds are the most immediately dangerous to what we grow, they can shade out, or choke out, and obscure the plants we grow as well as depleting the surrounding soil of the same nutrients our crops need.
Grasses while not an immediate threat can become established and be hard to remove. The worst id cuch or quak grass which spreads by ryzhomes that can pentrate just about everything including potatoes, carrots and rubarb roots.
The best way to remove these is a care hand and hoe.
Last thursday i began the process of replacing our aging stirrup hoe fleet with 4 new hoes.
-tristan
