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After spending 2 months of moving stuff and plants, and cleaning and fixing our old home, we are more then ready to be done with selling it. Money is tight owning both homes, and the faster everything sells and gets cleared up, the quicker we can get to mortgage free, saving us money. After being…
The rush is on because we have a crew coming in tomorrow to pour our new concrete floor in our barn reno. Ian is so tired, and is ready for a break, but he has to jackhammer all night to get the old footings out in time. Once it’s done he can get a bit…
We are pouring the concrete footings for the exterior wall of our barn reno today. 100 bags of concrete later and we have footings! It is busy, and we have a tight timeline with the concrete company coming on Monday. But we are making progress. Plus, check out how good the garden looks all weeded.
I haven’t weeded my garden at all this summer, and now I have a big mess on my hands. So before I tackle removing 2 months of weeds cleared, I bought myself some fancy new tools. And I think they might be the best hoe ever. I purchased my hoe at Lee Valley Tools, but…
It’s time to start the big job, and the biggest job that we have at the new farm is to finish up our barn. The old owners had started to convert half of it into a living space, but there is still lots of work to get done. The siding had started to get ripped…
We need to name our new farm, and we need your help! Come and join us for a chat and let us know what you think.
Full disclosure: the seller told Ian that the tractor had hydrolic leaks, but Ian was excited about all the time he could save by not going and looking at the tractor because the seller would drop it off. I invite you to join me in not feeling sorry for Ian, because you should never buy…
There isn’t many things wrong with our new house, but our steps to the kitchen are rotten, and need to be replaced right away for our insurance. So my dad is over today, helping us replace our rotten steps. But of course, nothing is ever easy, so we hit some hiccups along the way. We…
We have 3 full sized apricot trees that are loaded with fruit. These monsters must produce 1000’s of lbs yearly. So today we are harvesting apricots and have a huge haul for preserving in the freezer. Join Serina, Lia and Sam as we pick some of the tree, pit the apricots, and try out a…
There was no way that we were leaving our monster rhubarb behind at the old house, but finding a way to transplant it was easier said than done. This ended up being our craziest transplant yet This rhubarb plant is over 20 years old, and this is the second time that we have transplanted. It…
What happened to all my flowers in the new flower garden?! I thought everything was going to be okay, but it looks like my garden is completely dead. And even worse, we have a bunch of plants that have been waiting overnight to get planted, and now I don’t know if they will survive. Join…
The transplanting continues, and Serina and Ian take some time to investigate how well the plants have been adjusting so far. A lot of plants look dead from the less then friendly way we have been transplanting our plants, but there is hope! Things will bounce back, and hopefully, we will have a lush garden…
We actually have some free time today, so we are randomly hoping on for a LIVE visit with everyone to give you a quick update on where we are at. And to get some advice from all of you about what you would like to see from us in the future. It’s a beautiful day…
I’ve heard that insanity is doing the same action over and over again, but expecting a different outcome, and yet we are over here in the middle of MOVING MADNESS still hoping that today will be easy, lol. So I guess we are officially a crazy couple for moving every one of our plants to…
We need to prep a new garden in order to bring over our herbs, so today we are killing more grass – because ALL GRASS MUST DIE, lol. To make the new garden we do a shallow till to the dry grass, then rake up the grass from the surface. Once we have removed most…
We are pulling up our berry bushes and transplanting them to the new house. With the vegetable garden finally completed, and the berries coming along, the gardens and work are starting to stack up. We are excited to see our new farm evolve! __________ Subscribe and JOIN OUR JOURNEY! https://www.youtube.com/c/YouCantEatTheGrass?sub_confirmation=1. __________ SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram |…
We have been in a big rush, everyday this month. But why? Wouldn’t it just be easier to take our time, get in some good soil, build some raised beds? Rome wasn’t built in a day after all. This is completely true, which is why you need to know a little bit more about why…
After Serina complains all day, Ian finally swoops in and saves the day! They are at it till late at night, but the holes get dug in the rock hard ground, and the new garden gets planted. Now’s not the time to stop! We’ve barely even gotten started! And now the garden looks great (or…
We have been so busy trying to get settled into our new place that we are behind on creating videos, but we are excited to share all the changes we have made. Every day is another trip between our old house and our new farm, and although we aren’t done yet, we are getting close.…
I’m ready to give up! It’s been a long week of fighting with our stumps and grass to get ready to start bringing over our plants to our new farm. But when I head outside to finally dig the holes and get planting, I get a new surprise – our ground is rock hard! I…
We have figured out how to get the tiller started, so it should be smooth sailing from here on out. Oh, except for the fact that when we break ground we learn that we own a stump farm! We hope you enjoy the universal humor of us breaking ground for our first garden, as well…
We needed a grass murderer, so we bought ourselves a BCS 739. Serina likes it because it is small enough and light enough to be a perfect lady tractor. Plus it fits in a shed! We feel it will be a great tool for our future 1 acre market garden. But first we need to…
Serina and Ian are digging up their massive garlic harvest at the old house. Can you ever have enough garlic? Not for us! And 100 bulbs is what we are harvesting today. After 9 months it is exciting to see the garlic come out of the garden. We share some of our tricks for how…
We have been really busy this last 2 weeks getting into our new farm. Every day the list of tasks is endless, and we have been going to bed late and tired. But we wanted to share with you our first impressions of the new place. It is hard to believe that this is now…
Urban Farmer Curtis Stone came by to check out our new farm, and give us a consultation about where and how to get started farming. It was fun to show off our dream farm, especially because he was planning on buying a new farm all winter, and we were the ones to end up with…
Permaculture provides abundance, and we are sad to be moving away from our urban permaculture paradise, but excited to be taking the next step in our journey to a small farm. Before we leave our old house though, we wanted to show off a bunch of the permaculture systems we have in place. Even though…
We have a couple pictures of the new house to share with you all! It is exciting that we will be into our 100 year old farmhouse soon, and we hope you enjoy this sneak peak of the reasons we are excited about the place (and some of the problems). __________ Subscribe and JOIN OUR…
We visited Dundurn Castle, where they have a garden based on what it would have looked like during the 1850s, using the technology and plants available for the time period. This is without a doubt, the best vegetable garden ever, and we are excited to have an acre to replicate it on our soon to…
Serina was nervous that it wouldn’t all come together in time, but at 3pm on the last day, we got our financing. And were able to complete our contract and officially be able to purchase our new farm. Now we just get ready to move for July 1st. __________ Subscribe and JOIN OUR JOURNEY! https://www.youtube.com/c/YouCantEatTheGrass?sub_confirmation=1.…
We have one more day to finalize our offer, and we haven’t been offered a mortgage yet! Are we actually going to be able to pull this all together in time? Are we going to lose our dream farm to financing troubles. __________ Subscribe and JOIN OUR JOURNEY! https://www.youtube.com/c/YouCantEatTheGrass?sub_confirmation=1. __________ SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/you.cant.eat.the.grass/…
