Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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- Matt and April
- This is a record of our journey through life on our farm, and will hopefully serve as a reminder and guide for future reference. Our farm is located on the eaves of the Boreal forest, in the Whitefish River Valley, Ontario. Technically we live in the St. Lawrence forest, which has more broad leaved trees than the Boreal and , in this part of the province at least, exists in a little patch around the Lakehead. Unlike the Boreal's ultra thin soil, glaciation left an abundance of deep clay and loam in our valley, which was once dotted with small dairy farms. Those farms disappeared with the pasteurization laws of 1929 and the small fields disappeared with the horse in the 1950's. Although grown in and long neglected when we arrived 8 years ago, our farm is slowly returning to agricultural purposes. We are listed as a Zone 3 according to the USDA climate map, although our southern slope and relatively high altitude help mitigate that a bit.
2 comments:
Wow, I've been following your blog for a while now and I must say you have quite an amazing operation going on out there. Good luck with all that deer fencing... I love deer, but man what a hassel. Especially on such a large area as yours.
Mike
Thanks Mr H,
We've been working at it for 7 years now, and it's starting to look like a farm! I enjoyed the low-tunnel information on your site, its amazing that you can grow things nearly year round in a climate that seems similar to ours. I'm planning on trying your technique this fall on a few beds and see what happens.
The deer fence is definitely a hassle, but it'll be there for a few years to come, hopefully part of the infrastructure that makes our farm business viable.
Keep on bloggin'
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