Wishing you happy Easter (or spring holiday) from here on the farm!

Hi my friends,

I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to send you a post this week. But I have also been extremely busy on the farm with family and friends over what is the Easter long weekend here in Canada.

So I am taking a page from a famous Substack writer

Heather Cox Richardson

whom I admire, and doing what Heather does in these situations - which is to send out a brief message to let her readers know she is taking a short break.

I just want to let you all know, that I will be back next week with more writing on our mind-body-food connections and growing food.

In the meantime, so much is happening on the farm right now. I just finished the new duck house pictured below last week. I have to admit to being pretty proud of myself. I built this 8x8 ft little building all by myself from the ground up, including installing my first ever metal roof. I’ve come such a LONG way from not being able to put anything at all together or cut a piece of wood to the right size! That means this duck house is the best I’ve build so far.

And the ducks seem pretty happy to be moving in.

Duck house construction

I built it with double front doors so that it is divided into two pens for the summer, to keep my breeding lines of Silver Appleyard ducks sorted out. But I can remove the divider for winter when the ducks prefer to be in one big flock together.

I’ll save the story of how I became the keeper of these ducks for another day, but so you understand Silver Appleyards are quite a rare breed of duck, and I keep two different lines of them. That means their eggs are quite important and I ship eggs across Canada to other aficionados of this breed.

But today is Easter Sunday, April 20th, and I will be heading up to the creek with my neighbors to help set up our irrigation system for this season.

I’ll catch up with you all next week - on our regular schedule.

In the meantime, happy spring, and happy growing.

Sue