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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.87
Wet laundry being dried in the room, a chorus of frogs from rice paddies, small tadpoles in the nearby pond and rivers, hydrangea flowers in the neighbourhood’s front yard. These are my memories from late spring to early summer rainy season called “Tsuyu 梅雨” in Japan. While we grapple over lack of rain here on…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.86
Four years ago, when we purchased this property, our garden was a forest. I still find big branches emerging from underground. Here is a catch of last Sunday while cleaning up an old radish bed. Remember our trial of different mulch materials to cover growing beds for winter? The first picture below was covered by…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.85
“Everyday is a winding road, I get a little bit closer to feeling fine…” This 1999 song played in our kitchen from Spotify playlist when I was trying to figure out which variety and how many loaves of bread I should bake. Last week, I miscalculated the amount of starter and what I prepared was…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.84
Who could expect this heat wave in the first week of May? I transplanted our first batch of lettuce for salad mix last week, after hardening off outside with reduced water for one week. These young lettuce plants are now being hit by heat wave with strong wind. Lettuce does not particularly do well in…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.83
This is how our farm looks like on April 26th. It has been a slow start this year and it looks empty, but a lot of things are going on. I brought radishes and arugulas to the market in the past week. Red Russian kale, collard and pilgrim cabbage were transplanted a few weeks ago…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.82
It’s Sunday afternoon and spring has really arrived!! I have finished expanding our number 2 plot, which is beside our propagation/wash-pack greenhouse. It was fenced to house four apple trees, two fig trees, garlic and spring snap peas. I had planted two more apple trees outside the fence, and now decided to expand the fence…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.81
Do you know what vegetable this is? These are tubers of Jerusalem artichoke or Sunchoke. I bought them from Sweet Rock Farm at farmer’s market on Saturday. I knew this root vegetable because we bought and cooked some when we frequently visited farmer’s market in Ontario, and I also harvested them at Nanoose Edibles Farm…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol.80
It looks like spring truly arrived. We removed plastic tarp and were delighted to see it kept our growing beds weed free! (though, we wonder how long it stays that way…). Compost and initial organic fertilizer were added and smoothed out. Swiss chard, Red Russan kale and Collard Green seedlings were transplanted. They were not quite…
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 79
We thought that our pea seeds failed. As soon as another pea seed order arrived, our original batch decided to come alive!! Now we wonder where we plant those extra peas… Last week we planted two more apple trees. Now we have 6 apple trees total. One day, we will bring apples to the market… …
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 78
Spring is officially here! First day of spring, March 20, is a national holiday in Japan. It is a day to celebrate nature and all lives, and appreciate our ancestors. However, at Sora Farm, we are panicked! Were we too late to start our lettuce? It has been almost four weeks since sowing the seeds,…
