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Exciting Changes at NIKIAN: Chapter IV

Lots has happened this last year that brings us a sense of anticipation and joy with relief! We have made a plan to transition the farm to the next generation - heirs of our choosing who will carry on what we've started while we gracefully step back from center stage. We're not going far - aging in place in a little house up on the back forty where we can still be involved in the work that gives…

SUMMER = Annuals & Tender Babes are in, Rain Dance was answered

Appreciating the big picture and ignoring the weeds for now... For us vegetarians, the veggie garden is especially heavy on legumes this...

SPRING = Garden unfurling, seed sowing and another Atlantic Rare & Unusual Plant Sale - 2024 and we're busy!

...So busy that I didn't get this blog published last week (time out to plant peas!). Our growing season is so short that plants race...

Rice growing 101: Harvest Field Day rescheduled twice for rain...

...just too wet to plan on anything more that two days ahead. Finally we just harvested when we could and made a series of videos for...

Rice Growing 101: Harvest Field Day Scheduled

OK. We're coming down the home stretch and drying down the rice paddies (draining out the water that has kept the paddies flooded). ...

Rice Growing 101: Preparing for Harvest

Watching the rice varieties develop, the colour changes are always amazing as the plant stems "head up" with grainy bloom and then hang...

Rice Growing 101: Feeding and trouble-shooting

As soon as the new rice transplants settle into the mud, they begin "tillering" - that is growing new stems just like the clump grass it...

Rice Growing 101: The Zen Part

Two weeks after planting and with nearly continuous rain, while our gardens are dripping and pouting, the rice loves it! Echoes of the...

Rice Growing 101: Planting the paddies

Transplanting the rice seedlings becomes an exercise in teamwork and balance, awareness of the environment (gridlines and a giant...

Rice Growing 101: Ready to transplant

The recent rain has helped to hydrate the paddy... but we have added a little water from the pond. Because we don't have water buffalo...