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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.99
When we lived in a city, “back to school” advertisement in shopping malls was the sign of getting closer to the end of summer. Here on our farm, it is the cool temperature I feel as soon as the sun hides behind tree canopies, loud crickets chirping in the evenings, my shadow gets longer when…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.98
Which type of hat do you wear when you work outside on a hot day? For me it has been a baseball cap on most days because it is light and was just my habit. And then a couple of weeks ago when it was super hot, I literally became sick…. After I worked hours…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.97
Have you touched the surface of cucumber leaves and felt fuzzy stuff on them? As we wrote before, we have Suyo Long cucumber plants both in greenhouse and outside. Those in greenhouse are growing faster and producing more fruits but outside ones also started to produce some in the past week, so I decided to…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.96
A few weeks ago, I was sowing lettuce seeds in trays and realized it will be the end of summer when I harvest these lettuces. Growing season goes so fast and it is still very difficult for me to make a crop plan properly so that we have sufficient supply throughout the season. In spring,…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.95
Here on Gabriola Island, we are enjoying gorgeous summer weather after a day of long awaited rain of last Thursday. We are so blessed! Many people in BC and Ontario are dealing with either direct threat of wildfire or bad air quality due to smoke. Our son bought an air purifier for his apartment and…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.94
It’s summer and plants are growing fast. When I first moved to Gabriola, I heard people say that someone’s zucchini grew so much overnight and he would not know what to do with it, so he would throw the giant zucchini into your car if it is parked with windows open. I wanted to see…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 51
September 15th is “Respect-for-the-aged” day in Japan. It became a national holiday in Japan in 1966, but why September 15th? It is based on this legend: There was a dedicated son who lived with his ailing father. Every day, he went to the mountains to gather firewood to sell and make a living. One day,…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 50
Is there a competition for the smallest pumpkin? These are “dwarf kuri pumpkins”. A few years ago, I ate some at my friend’s home and I fell in love with the sweetness and creaminess of it. I asked for the seeds and kept them, and planted this year. They are supposed to be smaller than…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 49
We had our first apples! We planted four apple trees three year ago. This spring, two of them had flowers, then one of them started to have fruits, lots of them. We were so excited and waited and waited for them to become bigger. They didn’t get much bigger and started to change color. We…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 48
Do you peel skin of figs? As a child, figs were the most favourite fruit of mine. In Japan, everybody (as far as I know) peels the skin of them. I was surprised when I saw people eating figs with skin on in Canada. Now I am getting used to eating them with skin on,…
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