I just scored a truckload of chipped branches from a road crew trimming the area around the phone and power lines on our road. They were happy not to have to cart it back to Halifax, where the truck was headed, so I suppose I saved the contractor a bit of money in diesel. But [...]
Yesterday I went on a tour of Windhorse Farm, a sustainable farming and forestry operation located up the LaHave River from Bridgewater. I was most curious to see their brush walls. When I first heard about Windhorse’s brush walls last winter, a light went on in my head. Here was the answer to several of [...]
A little more on the deer fence around my vegetable garden: It’s really working very well, as far as the deer are concerned. The biggest challenge to it right now is the squash, which will go to any length to get through to the other side of the fence. There has been some damage to [...]
The Victoria Day weekend is coming up, traditionally the time you can expect it to be safe to get your garden planted – though I wouldn’t put out the tomatoes just yet. But the potatoes are now happily buried in the new part of my growing vegetable garden. This area of so-called lawn (“so-called” because [...]
There is a neighbourhood outside the Town of Mahone Bay, on the road to Lunenburg, that is quite overrun with deer. We drove past it today and saw this group on a lawn. We were actually able to turn around and drive back to take pictures without them shying away. Cute, you think? Only if [...]
