Harvest Festival

Yesterday was the Linnaea Harvest Festival which I attended and enjoyed. It's held at Linnaea Farm which is an organic gardening school. There used to be a school on the same property but it closed this year due to lack of enrolment.

Linnaea is a special place. It has been there for years and continues to inspire and nourish people on this island and way beyond. People come from lierally all over the world to study here.

Naturally the gardens and orchards are wonderful but I was also intrigued to meet John who lives and works there as a traditional tool maker and woodworker. He was demonstrating how to use a spokeshave and had on display some neat elbow adzes and draw knives he had made.



This doe and her two fawns were quietly feeding behind my trailer when I noticed them and took this shot through the window. The fawns still have some spots but they are growing fast. I really enjoy having deer around here and only want to keep them out of the garden and away from fruit trees.






And.... here is a dark brown garden plot, thanks to the efforts of Dan the Tiller and his Troy-Bilt machine. (redone on the left). On the right is David Rousseau's big backhoe which he has been using to back fill the utility ditches -- the final step of the long painful process of putting all our electrical and water lines underground.

The next step with the garden is to plant a crop of winter rye which will get ploughed into the soil next spring. Believe it or now I actually have a gadget for planting seed, which I will try to photograph in action and post here in a week or so.