When boiling maple syrup in the spring, we tend to drink copious amounts of maple sap. Turns out, this is a common practice around the world, wherever maple species grow (as well as birch and other trees). Maple sap is…

We finished tapping March 6, just in time to catch the first run of sap (well, except for that crazy early one in February) the next day. After letting the lines clean out for a day or so, we then…

We’re giving a tour of our farm this September as part of a Permaculture Design Course. To sign up, and to see the other tours being offered, see http://www.eonpermaculture.ca/pc-tour-Ottawa2016. To sign up for the whole PDC go to http://www.eonpermaculture.ca/PDC2016.

Last spring a TV crew visited us for several days to shoot an episode about the marketing of organic food, and produced an hour long episode, which aired in January. You can’t currently watch it online, but you can watch…

Made some upgrades to the sugar shack this fall: a cupola in the roof with doors that open to let the steam out, and…some walls!

The shiitake season on our logs lasted longer than we could have ever imagined this year. With real winter finally here, it seems, we harvested the remaining mushrooms yesterday.

A little video of making maple pies.

A nice article in the Low Down to Hull and Back News this week about the new paradigm of farming. Quotes us, as well as Juniper Farm, Roots and Shoots, and Alska Farm. Best of all, it features Gabriel from…

Our long-time farming buddies (and one of the inspirations that got us into farming in the first place) has just made the move from rental land in Manotick Station, south of Ottawa, to just outside Masham, Quebec – just a…