Posts 2016-2021

Mar 30 2020

Conservation de semences avec Norbert Robichaud

After spending time with Norbert Robichaud, we understood how seed saving is not just about saving seeds to grow next next. It is about preserving culture. We were grateful for his insights into this most important practice.

By Elaine and Archie • farming, food movement, food security, food skills project, gardening, seed saving

Mar 19 2020

Laying Ducks with Charline Kavanagh

Charline Kavanagh has a hobby farm outside Moncton. She started off with a just a couple of animals, mostly chickens, but now has a small hobby farm That includes turkeys, sheep, pigs, goats and, of course, ducks. We asked her to tell us how to get into laying ducks.

By Elaine and Archie • farming, food movement, food security, food skills project, homesteading

Mar 1 2020

Fireweed Jelly with Shelley Bauman-Shantz

Shelley Bauman-Shantz runs a small farm with her husband, Aaron, and her children. At her booth at the Bouctouche Farmers Market her Fireweed jelly caught our eye. Fireweed is a flower that comes up in abandoned fields and sometimes where there’s been a fire. We got her to walk us through her whole process for making the jelly.

By Elaine and Archie • cooking, food security, food skills project, foraging, homesteading

man in front of garden boxes at a school garden

Mar 1 2020

Hugelkultur avec Stéphane Couturier

Stéphane Couturier is a teacher in a Moncton school who thinks children need to learn to garden because it’s a basic skill for independence. When we went looking for someone who knew how to garden with hugelkultur, his name came up.

By Elaine and Archie • children, food movement, food security, food skills project, gardening

Feb 15 2020

Beekeeping with Brian Pond

Brian Pond is a true ambassador for the beekeeping community. He takes every opportunity to get people into bees including a kiosk at the local market where he has a display of live bees in a glass case for people to examine. In this video he took us to his hives and his honey processing shop in Mckees Mills.

By Elaine and Archie • farming, food movement, food security, food skills project, gardening, homesteading

Feb 15 2020

The Family Cow with Hannah Buschhaus

Nothing says homesteading like the family cow. However, it’s an even bigger undertaking than most people realize. But Hannah Buschhaus shows us her how she and her family make it work.

By Elaine and Archie • children, farming, food movement, food security, food skills project, homesteading

Feb 1 2020

Sheep Farming with Moranda Van Geest

What is the number one business for young farmers to get into these days? Moranda Van Geest says it’s sheep farming. Moranda and her husband had a dairy for for decades after they came from the Netherlands. They “retired” from that and started a sheep farm.

By Elaine and Archie • farming, food movement, food security, food skills project, homesteading

Feb 1 2020

Un pêcheur commercial avec Stephan Leblanc

Stephan Leblanc comes from a long line of fishermen, several generations on either side of his parents. He fishes out of L’Aboiteaux Wharf in Cap Pelé, New Brunswick.

By Elaine and Archie • fishing, food movement, food security, food skills project