This Spring, we found ourselves host to 4 families of Canada Geese, rearing 17 babies. What a lovely sight on the pond every morning. Bird romance is not the only thing budding here… wild flowers abound as the season heats up. We’ve also found wild asparagus, which we made into an amazing breakfast. (If you’re new to the farm, please read my original post with background on what we are trying to do and how the farm got to a foreclosure point.)
For the newly-arrived Summer, we built raised planters for Mom so that she could easily weed them. We recycled old lumber and orange baler twine to keep costs low. And, we re-purposed the unfinished gazebo into a make-shift climbing garden. We’re looking forward to potatoes, peppers, and other fresh veggies throughout the season. The last photo in the gallery is of a metal contraption that we found here. Anyone care to take a guess at what it is?
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- Canada Geese parents with their younglings.
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- Naturally-molted Canada Geese tail feathers. Might make cool ink quills.
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- Day Lily
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- Snow Drop
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- Perennial Sweet Pea
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- Black-Eyed Susan
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- Achillea millefolium (Yarrow)
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- Smooth Brome Grass (The grasses here are as lovely as the flowers, in my humble opinion.)
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- Dandelion seeds (I am considering making them into little glass-sphere necklaces).
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- Tall Buttercup
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- Red Clover
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- Milkweed with a Virginia Ctenuchid Moth feeding on its nectar.
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- Raised planters with tomato plants
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- Old Gazebo re-purposed into a climbing garden with beans, cucumbers, and peas
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- Wild asparagus, bacon, Hollandaise sauce, and fresh eggs from the neighbour’s hens on sesame seed bagels
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- A metal contraption that has us stumped as to what it is
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- I made this Chickadee series with real branch and barbed wire from the farm. See my “Chickadee artwork” link below.
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- And, yes, all these wild flowers have inspired floral art and jewellery. Check out my “art for your ears” link below.
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Hugs from 300 acres of wildlife,
P.S. If you’re new to the farm, please read the background on the farm to learn why it is in a state of foreclosure and, with your help, what I’m trying to save. Thank you.
