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Wednesday Walkabout June 1st

Posted in Uncategorized, Walkabouts, tagged alumni, beets, cattle, cucumbers, eggplant, flowers, garlic, hops, kale, practicum students, tomato, UBC Alumni Weekend on June 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Another awesome week at the UBC Farm!

: Garlic on the grow!

: This row cover has just been raised over eggplants and tomatoes in the Institute for Aboriginal Health Garden.

: Settling the two Belted Galloway cattle into their new home…

: UBC Alumni and family visiting the farm during Alumni Weekend this past Saturday

: Cucumbers in the greenhouse

: Nitrogen-fixing crimson clover lines the fields

: Hops, great for flavoring during brewing, as well as treating insomnia and anxiety.

: PhD Forestry student Gwen Huber measuring floral volatile scents in the blueberry field. She is examining the effect of volatiles on pollinators.

: Kale flowers

: Beet shoots

: Practicum students in thoughtful conversation

: Practicum students and Learning Mentor DeLisa Lewis take a chance on a rather ominous looking cloud in order to squeeze in some weeding time.

: Promise of strawberries to come!

: Budding chives

: Lettuce plugs being hardened off for transplanting

: Enormous Red Russian kale leaves in the greenhouse

: Lupines are everywhere at the farm at this time of year… Come on out and see how many you can count!

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Wednesday walkabout, July 29th

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged flowers, photos, squash, summer, sunflower on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

My last one! It’s been a joy to bring you photos each week, and I will miss it very much. However Halifax calls, and I must answer. Amy will be rocking the blog though, so I leave you in good hands. Enjoy these farewell shots of a gorgeous day.

Many good farm wishes,

Ayla

: It’s hot in here, but spirits are still high.

: Wee jalapenos

: Corn cobs

: Speckled zuchinni leaves

: Andrea surveying the field

: Gigundo sunflower

: “Cinderella” pumpkins are huge already

: Benches for sitting

: Bzzzzzzzz…

: Apprentice corn

: Tansy

: Sprinklers in the apprentice plots

: Baby punks

: Acorn squish squash

: Purple cabbage leaf

: Cabbage patch

: Mammoth kohlrabi!!

: Salads in rows

: Scott, relaxing.

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Wednesday Walkabout from July 15

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged cabbage, collards, field, flowers, people, photos on July 21, 2009 |

Sorry about the tardiness, technical difficulties kept me from posting these until now.

: Poppy popping.

: Pea fingers

: Garlic hanging to cure

: Big-headed sunflower

: Boards.

: Scapes on the salmon table

: Asparagus understory

: An apple in the hand beats two in the bush…

: Bean reaches high

: Yellow chard

: Fennel bulb

: That cabbage is bigger than Gemma’s head!

: One lone, yellow kale leaf

: Curly Kale- with ruffled leaves and a fibrous stalk and is usually deep green in color. It has a lively pungent flavor with delicious bitter peppery qualities.

: The collard greens are looking great

: Weeding time!

: Baby squash

: Brilliant rhubarb leaf

: Bumble bee enjoying the lavendar

: Basil, on strong now

: Cuke with flower

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Apprentice Post: Farm a Buzz…

Posted in Apprentices, tagged bees, flowers, market on July 11, 2009 |

Like a colony of bees, saturday morning sees a hive of activity. Central is the harvest hut, where volunteers, staff, apprentii, and those who vend, swarm and descend, fresh goodies in hand. The carrots and broccoli are new, and the meaty beets would crowd out the rest if they could; their bushels of green and red tops take up the counter space they deserve. ‘Early Wonder’ indeed!

So we bumble off to gather the herbs, and find Ayla in passing, nursing a half stung finger in amidst the medicinal flower garden. The morning grog has yet to pass, and some bees are not at their sharpest. But once they get going, their toil seems unending. The oregano is in full bloom, and the bees make their pass. Some hang so heavy with pollen it seems a defiance of gravity, as they swager through this warm morning’s air. Seeing our pollinators drunk with the bloom eases my guilt as I steal these fragrant herbs out from under them. One could lose hours down here, but the market does not wait for dreamers, as the burgeoning lineup will attest. Those with a hunger get the freshest and the best. So I scurry back up, mint, sage, oregano, bronze fennel, and savoury bunched and ready for sale.

Morning task complete, it is time to seek out the action in the field. “To the peas!” someone calls. Surely, if those I see in the distance were not human, bees they would be, the way they methodically pour over the peas. Plucking high and low, sugar snap and snow. These are bountiful times, and for that I am grateful. Every day, it seems there is more freshness and vitality bursting forth of the earth. My buzzin buddies have it good, too. Everywhere I look, there are Honey and Bumble bees, going about their business. From blackberry blossoms, to echinaccea, to pea and bean flowers, the maya garden squash petals and blooms unnamed in my mind, there is the hum of our most prodigious helpers. The ones without which we would have little to eat. And I don’t mean honey.

: Radish, Carrots, and Monstrous Beets.

: Big Broccoli!

: Oregano Bloom

: Coneflower aka Echinaccea

: The garlic has been ransacked!!

: Busy on the Peas

: Blackberry Bee

: Emerging goodness!

: Drinking of the Hollyhock

: Delicious squash petals.

: Maya Garden Flowers

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Cutting flowers at 8 this morning

Posted in Daily News, tagged flowers, harvest, photos on July 4, 2009 |

flower bucket

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Wednesday Walkabout, June 24

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged birds, broccoli, flowers, photos, rain, slug, Wildlife on June 24, 2009 |

: Paving stones

: Yum

: Ick.

: Veiny cabbage leaves

: Broc getting ready

: Poppy face

: Broad beans

: Poppy pods

: Lettuce head

: Currants, ripe

: Tomato kid

: Basil-kins, will be at this week’s market

: Canola, harvested

: Sunflowers have arrived

: But some are still sleeping

: Builder girl

: Fireweed in bloom

: Samara bunch

: sqwawk!

: Sleeping…

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Wednesday Walkabout, June 17

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged chickens, flowers, photos, summer on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

: Honkin huge rose hips

: Bwawk!

: Tweet tweet

: greenhouse guest

: Wee grapes!

: Wee grape leaves!

: Looking more and more like apples

: First peas are almost ready

: Gorgeous skies

: Weed-free carrots, thanks Tim

: Kale, ready for next week’s market

: Gooooooseberries

: Scape art, part I

: Scape art, part II

: Scape art, part III

: Smokehouse interior

: Smokehouse floor

: The door to noooo wherrrrre

: Our fancy new “building”

: Tomatoes under cover

: What’s hiding in here?

: Bebes!

: Hairy nasturtium face

: Hop circus

: Feel like you’re driving the tractor?

: Scott, whitewashing away

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Wednesday Walkabout, June 10

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged flowers, green, photos, salads, Strawberries, summer on June 11, 2009 |

Caught in a string of sunshiney days – no clear end in sight. We’ve all been mentioning our hopes for some rain, though. Make sure to come check out all this gorgeous stuff at our first market of the year, this Saturday, June 13th.

: Medicinal garden after a spring cleaning

: These babies will be waiting for you at the market…

: Artichokey

: Grape vine, crucified.

: Wild rose

: Salads going strong

: Gooseberries, with the tiniest touch of color.

: Bzzzzzzzzz

: Bean row

: Pea trellis, full!

: Pea blossom

: Tomato peep show

: Waiting….

: plant, seed, root, soil

: Working hard

: Lush trays

: Way to drive straight, Gemma!

: Paul’s plot.

: Korean fir cone

: Abies koreana

: Sunflower guardian

: A luscious herb field

: Yay!

: Trellis in the children’s garden

: Poppy pop

: poof!

: New bay tree

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Wednesday Walkabout, June 3 – Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone

Posted in Walkabouts, tagged flowers, photos, seedlings, spring, sun, transplants on June 3, 2009 |

Did you know that it has been over A MONTH since my last Wednesday Walkabout post? Pitiful, really. I’ll do my best to stay on track in the coming weeks. For today – enjoy!