It’s great to share pictures of things going on at the farm.

It’s been an early spring here this year, and I think overall a fairly mild winter. We looked across a week ago and saw spashes of colour from last years vegetable garden. We were happy to discover that most of the pansies we planted last year made it through the winter and were flowering already. We also have more pansies growing in other places that have self seeded themselves from last year.

We grew the pansies to use as garnish on our plates at the Yellow Canoe Cafe. I picked the second batch this morning and here they are ready for use today:

Spring Pansies ready for Garnish at the Yellow Canoe Cafe

Daffodils are Susan’s favourite flowers. We’ve planted quite a few about the farm in the past few years and need to put in more. I noticed this morning that they’re blooming.

Spring Daffodils

One thing I like about heating with wood at the farm is that I can fill the “oil” tank in half and hour out the back. My goal is to only burn dead wood. With this warm spell we haven’t had the wood stove going for a few days, but tonight that has to change. I went out this morning and brought back this load of dead elm (darn that Dutch Elm disease) and ash (ditto, Emerald Ash Borer I guess).

This morning's load of firewood. Dead Elm, Ash & Poplar

My friend Fred Dawson came over yesterday and we cut a bunch more dead elm trees for firewood. This is most of it.

Dead Elm Firewood

Susan is very happy now that we have a wood store again … she likes to be warm!

Why we do this

Before:

Dead Elm Tree

After:

Elm After

Stump:

Elm Stump

The result:

A warm glow