Getting Started

The first seedlings are in the ground!

The first Chillies

It’s been a long road with many delays due to weather and buraucracy, but at last the first seedlings have been transplanted.

The drip tape is in place on the first section of beds. Plastic tunnels are in position.

We lifted them all up during the day time when the temperature started rising last week. With night time minimums of 20C or more over the last few days, we have left them up at night too. But with a few cooler days ahead, we will be dropping them down at night to preserve some of the heat.

Why did I, at an age when most sensible people are enjoying their retirement, decide to return to my farming roots and start growing vegetables?

Here’s the background.

My story about Sue and I losing our farm  in the illegal and brutal farm takeovers by the Zimbabwe government and arriving in Canada almost as refugees in 2004 is on my blog.

Bryan was managing an intensive farming enterprise growing high value vegetables for export to Europe and employing 400 people.

With the increasing political problems in Zimbabwe making farming in that country impossible and their future uncertain, Bryan and Karen moved to Canada with their two young daughters.

That’s why we have started our vegetable project.