Tag Archives: Farming
The Greenhouse Dream Fulfilled
By Cam Mather As soon as I discovered the old barn foundation on our property 14 years ago, I fantasized about turning it into a garden. At the time the foundation was in the middle of a forest. And it had a small forest growing inside of it. Over the years I took down the …
The Extreme Sport of Running a CSA
By Cam Mather Over the years I have been reading about CSAs. “Community Supported Agriculture” or CSAs deliver a basket of produce to people once a week during the growing season, so the members share in the harvest. They take the ups with the downs. Now as I reach back into the recesses of my …
And Then I Put a New Engine In It….
By Cam Mather I’ve always wanted to be one of those “guys” that just “swaps” out an engine when it’s giving him trouble. Kind of like the NASCAR pit crews after a big wreck of a crash, who are able to rebuild the car in minutes and get it back on the track after only …
When Baseball Ruled My Life
By Cam Mather I recently watched the movie “Moneyball” and I thought it was a great movie. I really like Brad Pitt. I think he’s underrated as an actor because he’s so darn good looking. Sometimes we assume that good-looking people aren’t as intelligent or as talented as people who are less attractive, which is …
Pride & Prejudice and a Life of Leisure
By Cam Mather My exceptional daughters are always helping me to better myself. Since we didn’t subscribe to cable TV when they were young they had plenty of opportunities to develop a love of reading. Even now as adults, they both still love to read. When Nicole comes home for a weekend she can easily …
Measured Out in Coffee Spoons
By Cam Mather In my on-going “life as a song lyric” series, where I live vicariously through music, I was recently taken back to my suburban life. It was one of those “angry Cam” days when a whole series of things had me in a pissy mood… climate change/idiots & morons/May weather in March exposing …
Crossing the Gardening Rubicon
By Cam Mather This hasn’t been much of a winter here at Sunflower Farm, just like many places in North America. The area south of us along Lake Ontario had virtually no snow. By the end of the winter in 2008 and 2009 after numerous dumpings of snow we had enormous piles and snow banks …
It’s Not Bugs in Your Food That You Need to Worry About!
By Cam Mather I saw an article in the Toronto Star newspaper recently about how weevils had been found in some bags of rice. But they just weren’t found in the rice, they had “infiltrated and contaminated” the rice. Really? Contaminated? http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1115473–weevils-found-in-rice-at-real-canadian-superstore-in-toronto After the contaminated bags were removed the area was inspected by a pest-control …
From Flat Tires to Newfound Friends
By Cam Mather I’ve often written about the people who show up at our door because we’re the only house on a 10 kilometer stretch of deserted road. We’ve always done what we can to help them. I’ve always contended that one day the shoe would be on the other foot, so I’d better go …
Calculating the ROI of Our Chickens
By Michelle Mather As you might know from reading previous posts on this blog, Cam and I acquired 4 laying hens in May. We had always toyed with the idea of having our own chickens, but we didn’t know anything about looking after them and so we kept “chickening out.” We both eat a vegetarian …
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