Tag: permaculture

Our nursery sale, where we sell tomatoes, peppers in paper pots, dahlias in 1 gallon pots, and lots of other assorted veggies in soil blocks, has finally begun. We are anxious about the opening, because we need strong sales to get to our revenue goals for the season. Last year we sold $7000 at the…

Getting ready for the seedling sale while also prepping the farm is hard enough, but when you add in freezing nights and no water, things start to crumble into chaos. Join Serina as she gives you a tour around the farm, showing off all the tomato seedlings, veggie gardens, dahlias, spring flowers, and more! __________…

Things have been crazy on the farm this week as we prepare for our upcoming seedling sale while also trying to keep all the veggie growing on track. Join us for a quick chat about what we are doing on the farm, and flower and vegetable gardening. __________ Ian and Serina of YOU CANT EAT…

Our 3 new greenhouses are finally being delivered to the farm, but there is a catch. The trucking company loaded our greenhouses, that are supposed to be moved with a sling, in an enclosed trailer, making it difficult to unload, and in the process, the skid fell over and damaged our precious greenhouse. My experience…

Come and join us for a little tour of all the seedlings. 1500 tomato plants, thousands of soil blocks, hundreds of dahlias, and all the other farming and gardening craziness we currently have going on. __________ Ian and Serina of YOU CANT EAT THE GRASS feel that every small change can make a big difference…

Our barn is full of plants like tomatoes, peppers, and dahlias, lots of which we are potting up in paper pots. Our nights are still freezing, so that is why all those plants are still living inside instead of outside, in our greenhouse. It won’t be long until nights are warm enough for all those…

Soil Blocks are a great way to grow seedlings for your flowers and veggies, without the use of plastic trays or pots. We make so many soil blocks, and grow so many seedlings in them, that it is safe to say we are professionals in the art of soil blocking, and in this video we…

We are continuing through the list of questions you asked on our community post from last week. We are talking gardening, farming, growing veggies and flowers, and more! Check out Liz Zorab’s book Grounded https://amzn.to/2QdV1j1 (affiliate) __________ Ian and Serina of YOU CANT EAT THE GRASS feel that every small change can make a big…

Bring your questions to the community post, and we will do our best to answer them. Come and hang out with us live, while we chat about vegetable gardening, farming, and flowers. __________ Ian and Serina of YOU CANT EAT THE GRASS feel that every small change can make a big difference to the world…

Our tomato seedlings are outgrowing their trays, and are in need of potting up into a larger sized pot, so this video starts off with Serina showing you how to pot up tomato seedling, which works for other veggies as well. After the how to section is done, we tour through our barn showing off…

The Seedling room is filled to the brim with baby tomato and pepper plants! With about 3000 seedlings going for our seedling sale, there is a lot to show. Join as I show off my plant babies and talk about the tomato varieties that I have this year, and why I’ve chosen them. Also, we…

https://www.youtube.com/c/FlowerHillFarm Without the bulk of the filler flowers and greenery, a bouquet would just be a handful of flowers. So I’ve partnered up with Nicole from Flower Hill Farm to chat about all our favorite filler flowers and greenery that we grow on our cut flower farms. We share all our tips about the specific…

I am very excited to be unboxing all the new dahlias and perennials that I bought from Van Noort for the flower farm this year. With 300 dinnerplate and decorative or ball dahlias, with all my old favorites and lots of new varieties. 450 Perennial plants including sedums, miscanthus grasses, yarrows, sea holly, and more!…

We are continuing with going through the bulk of the vegetable seeds that we will be growing on the farm this year – including some flowers! Let’s dig through the rest of this William Dam seeds box, and talk seed shopping. __________ Ian and Serina of YOU CANT EAT THE GRASS feel that every small…

It’s officially time to start the farm up again. And even though it is only March, we are already so far behind on all the projects that we need to have done to begin the season. Come and check out how the farm and garden are looking. And so many projects on the go! Painting!…

We received our William Dam seed order this week, so let’s open it up! I have lots of new varieties I’m excited to play around with this year in the vegetable garden, and on the farm. This $1500 order is full of all my favorites on the farm, so there is a lit to go…

Roadtrip! We have over 1000 flowers, lots of which are Dahlias tubers, that we need to pick up from Vancouver. It’s too cold over the mountain passes on the highway to rely on trucking, with our precious Dahlia tubers so frost sensitive, so Ian is hitting the road and driving his truck all the way…

We have been putting away on the farm, trying to get ready for the season starting. Our most exciting news on the farm this week is that we got 34 yards of the most beautiful compost (thank you Black Diamond Soil Services). And I don’t have a specific conversation topic, so we will start there,…

March is tomorrow, and that means the beginning of the farm and garden season is here for me. Are we ready? No, lol. But we won’t let that stop us from growing our best this year. Come and chat about what we have coming up, what we will be growing in the next few weeks,…