Closed for the Season and Happy Winter!

It’s been an interesting year, what with Ben being laid off for 5 and a half months, getting the ADHOC Tiny Shack ready to rent and all the behind the scenes work going on here at the farm in addition to homeschooling and the everyday farming.  It has really taught us to have faith in […]

It takes a village…..

to make a winery apparently.  Today was our main harvest day where we harvested all the Petit Milo (that which becomes the Virga) and the Leon Millot (that which becomes the Quintage).  It takes a pretty big crowd to ensure that we are able to get it done in a day rather than in a […]

Oh dear….

The Blog has been sadly neglected.  Work on the farm continues, though there have been things like replacing our roof, putting up nets, en epic chicken harvest day where 3 of us did 60 chickens (thanks J!!!  Couldn’t have done it without you!) a camping trip during the wettest week ever!  However we were allowed […]

Procrastinating…

As my list of things to do gets longer (vineyard, chickens, garden, kids, Glamper, Studio, housework, paperwork etc.), I start to obsess more and more about giving it all up and living in our Trillium, and travelling more….. I think it’s a sickness of some sort when we just got back from a major trip […]

Almost a whole month

Since we posted…..  And no pictures this post. It’s been busy but fruitful.  The vineyard is now pruned thanks to help from S. (our worker) and some fellow farmers J and R of Goosefoot Farms.  We’ve also locked up some of the chickens in chicken jail AKA the Leon Millot Vineyard to see if they […]