Monthly Archives: June 2014

Rylann

Posted by Danielle in Sweety Girl

Baby Rylann-19

Our little girl is growing so fast! Just in the past month or so she has learned to wave “Hi”, clap her hands, get from lying to sitting, pull herself up on furniture etc, and crawl! Its amazing watching her learn to do new things. She is 8 and a half months now, and I have treasured every day I get to spend with her.

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My mat leave is winding down and the thought of in just a few short months I will be going back to work is kind of unsettling. I’m sure it will be harder on me than on her, but all the same it will be be a big change. For now I will focus on having the summer with her, and hopefully the time won’t seem to go too fast.

We grow…

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So all the things we grow…. Lets start with the fruits. Apples, peaches, plums, pears, sweet cherries, nectarines, strawberries, and raspberries.

Now for the veggies. Potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, peas, lettuce, radishes, squash, beets, pumpkins, and sweet corn. I think that’s it. Of course there are different varieties grown of most of these fruits and vegetables.

The Apples…Honestly before meeting Spencer, I only knew of the few varieties of apples we stocked at Farm Boy, the grocery store I had worked at back home in Ottawa. Little did I know. Just sitting here making a list I can think of 20 varieties that we grow, and I will probably think of the one’s I’m forgetting later.

There are the “go to” apples everyone knows like MacIntosh and Red Delicious, and newer varieties that people are starting to recognize and love like Honey Crisp and Ambrosia. I myself have always liked the deep red colour, crispness, and sweetness of Red Delicious, but these Ambrosias are swaying me for sure.

I love that we grow so many things. There is a window of time in the season, (which will be coming soon) that I can go into the cold storage in our barn and “shop” for most of our weekly produce. You can’t get more local than that. Speaking of… time to go try the strawberries just in from the field.