In the Spring and Summer our main focus is growing food plants only from Organic and Heirloom seed sources. The work that we do to maintain our very modest gardens; composting, watering, planting, seeding, insect control, weeding, feeding and harvesting is organic and manual. The only machine is a large commercial rototiller that we use in the early spring and late fall to prepare the soil. We als
o raise hens that produce very large delicious eggs. Our girls are feed organic grain, well water, love and have lots of outdoor room to roam peck , scratch and chase each other. Our cockerels are raised to produce hormone and pharmaceutical-free chickens. During the week we tend to the activities of our busy little farm garden. Our Summer and Fall weekends are spent selling our vegetables and jewelry at the Farmer's Market. It is a real riot and we both just love chatting and connecting with new and perennial local food producers, consumers and enthusiasts at the farmer's markets in Ottawa, the Capital of Canada. From farmers in the summer, to jewelry makers in the winter. Stephane and Nathalie started making jewelry January 2014. A start your own business at home jewelry making kit sat in various closets around the house for over 5 years. It was offered to Nathalie by a couple of friends from Florida who lived in Canada briefly and now living in New-Zealand. Meeting artisans at the Farmer's Market we thought it could be put to good use by one of them. So we took out the kit to take a real good look at the contents of this mysterious, as it turned out treasure box. It contained all the basic tools, material to practice making 50 or 60 projects and instruction video tapes... we happen to have a VCR that works... we got curious. Since then, we have discovered lapidary trade shows, fascinating ancient world history, geology and so, so much more about this passionate world of jewelry making. Both are also rediscovering the fascination they had as young adults with rocks, metal and the metaphysical. In particular our various rings and Trees of Life have been very popular at the University of Ottawa's winter farmer's market, the National Archives Annual Spring Craft Show, Sante Restaurant Dine and Dazzle Jewelry Designer Spring Show and Beechwood Farmer's Market.
