HARVEST TIME!


It may be a bit of a stretch to call ourselves urban farmers but we do have 700 square feet of garden on our city lot in Nanaimo. Plus a large rainwater harvest system and drip irrigation! 





                                            Blueberries, strawberries, cucumber and brocolli!
                                                                               BEETS!
We had a raging bonfire one fall in order to get rid of scraps of wood and branches...we were lucky no one called the fire brigade...it was massive!



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