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Tree Sale: April 25 & 26, 2026
Update: the tree sale is over, but we have a some plants, shrubs and vines left to sell. Check the Fruit Trees page of this website for more details and link to our inventory, which will be updated each evening!
Saturday, April 25 & Sunday, April 26, 10:00am-1:00pm each day. Bare root fruit trees, nuts and shrubs including apple, cherry, pear, plum, and peach trees, American chestnuts, hazelnuts, aronia (chokeberry), elderberries, raspberries, saskatoons, willows, highbush blueberries, raspberries, hardy kiwis, and other ornamental and native shrubs, and more!
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Work Horse/Work Song Hootenanny
I am happy to report, folks, that we had a very serious hootenanny last night. About sixty people came out to the farm for this MOFGA-sponsored event and it was a roiling success. Half of the group went with Edith Gawler and Bennett Konesni and Elsie Gawler for some...
Bee-hiving and Green-housing
It's been an exciting week on the farm! The North Branch Beekeepers bought a baby colony of bees (called a nuc, or nuke, not sure how to spell it) a couple weeks ago and then transferred it to a new hive body. They seem to be doing pretty well despite some rainy...
Fruit, incoming
It's finally summer! Four pigs (only two of whom are already spoken for--it's not too late!) and one beef cow left for the butcher yesterday. Swimming has become a multi-weekly event. Best of all, the newly-ripening blueberries and gooseberries are being devoured...
Ringing in July
I told Elsie I wasn't sure what to put on the blog today and she said, "Lots and lots of rain," which is true...and although I've already written a couple times this summer about the precipitation, it's still true: we're getting Lots and Lots of rain....