Laura and Janto

Laura and Janto came to our farm at the beginning of May and bestowed us with their wonderful presence for six weeks. These pair are from Germany; despite their young age, they demonstrated impressive maturity, responsibility and mastery on baking Fonta cakes (apparently a staple at any German kid's birthday party). This awesome multi-purpose cake exhibited in the picture below being one of them.



This cake congratulated Hye Yeon's birthday, bade farewell to Hye Yeon, all the same while welcomed Mamiko and Michelle's return from her short trip to the East



Laura and Janto's stay overlapped with Hye Yeon (Front left) and Mamiko (back left), both of whom stayed for a rather brief but lovely two weeks. This meal featured Hye Yeong's tasty bulgogi and a group of focused eaters



Laura and Janto hanging laundry in a hot summer afternoon



Laura and Janto holding bottles of German-approved British Columbia beer



a slightly blurry shot of beautiful Laura holding a bouquet of beautiful and gigantic peonies



An also blurry shot of Janto holding a dead trapped mouse. I think he was chewing his breakfast cereal still, but here it looks as if he's chewing the same piece of deadly cheese which the mouse was going after



poor thing

Out in the fields

translanted squashes



zucchini on the left and three rows of sweet corns on the right



big bog-choi covered in remay and fava beans


from left to right: raspberry bushes, blueberries, rhubarbs, some spinach, lettuce, over-winter green onions/leeks, gobo (burdock roots)

flowers that fortell deliciousness

blueberry blossoms


flowers of shelling peas



flowers of fava beans



the flowers of fig (where? where are the flowers? actually the fig that commonly known as a fruit is actually a false fruit; it is a clump of seeds and internal flowers that grow together to form a single mass.)

Long time no post

It's been more than a month since I posted last time. It's a bad time to be lazy on the posting because summer is here apparently (highs around 30s this week) and things are growing at such crazy speed they are hard to keep up, so are the weeds. First of all let me show you a few pictures taken in mid-April and show you the transformation during then and now.


blossoming peach tree with a wii bit of leavesin greenhouse # 4

spinach and onions in greenhouse #5



green house #6 with the peas on both sides

and after a little more than a month... voila


peach tree thick with leaves


green house # 5 spinach and onions




greenhouse #6. notice the how high the peas have grown