{"id":1067,"date":"2012-02-14T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2012-02-14T15:34:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:34:20","slug":"february-on-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"February on the Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sorting Seeds for the CSA Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The CSA seed order was sent in and the seeds have arrived. \u00a0It’s always important to take the time to sort through them and make sure that all the seeds I ordered actually arrived. \u00a0Sometimes there is a slip between my list and the order form and sometimes the seed companies make a mistake. \u00a0As a result, I have learned to always check the order so that we don’t end up in the greenhouse or field ready to plant and not have the seed we thought we had…Ken made me some lovely dovetailed \u00a0wooden boxes a couple of years ago to put the small packets in to help keep them organized.<\/p>\n

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Greenhouse Completed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new greenhouse is enclosed and it gets quite warm inside on sunny days. \u00a0We have one small fan installed and even with just that running it kept it from freezing one night when it was -10 degrees\u00a0Celsius\u00a0outside. We are encouraged that the in-ground rock heat sink will really make a difference in heating and evening out \u00a0the day-night temperature difference in the greenhouse.<\/p>\n

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Mousing in the Hoop House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two of the kittens from last summer’s stray cat’s \u00a0litter have been neutered and are fully recovered. \u00a0They were busy today mousing in one of the hoop houses. \u00a0It is an important job. \u00a0I can see tunnels where the mice have been active in the nice warm hoop house during the \u00a0winter. \u00a0One spring we had our head lettuce transplanted into the hoop house and nicely tucked in with row cover to be ready for the first spring CSA pick-ups. When I uncovered them to weed I discovered, to my dismay, that all of one variety of head lettuce had been neatly munched off entirely! \u00a0 Since then I have been very concerned to eliminate the mouse population in the hoop houses before spring.<\/p>\n

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Suffolk Punches Getting Ready for Logging Workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Saturday, February 18th \u00a0we are giving a Horse \u00a0Logging Workshop here in our woodlot. \u00a0Ken is busy this week getting the horses back into shape and cutting down some trees to pull out. \u00a0He does selective cutting in the woods to thin it out to give the better trees more room to grow. \u00a0The thinned trees provide us with our fire wood and some logs to saw for lumber. \u00a0During the workshop the horses pull the logs out of the woods. Horse logging is much gentler on the woodlot and does much less damage to the remaining trees that using big machinery.<\/p>\n

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The CSA seed order was sent in and the seeds have arrived. \u00a0It’s always important to take the time to sort through them and make sure that all the seeds I ordered actually arrived. \u00a0Sometimes there is a slip between my list and the order form and sometimes the seed companies make a mistake. \u00a0As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}