This past Wednesday, a truck came on the yard with a Sea-Container. The older guys purchased it for storing carrots as the shop space is not big enough for their increasing operations. It was fascinating to watch the truck unload…the driver could control his trailer remotely.
Category Archives: Work
Spring Work – Part II
We finished planting our garden on Wednesday. Here are some pictures.
We raced to see who could get the most rows of potatoes planted!
Some transplanted tomatoes.
Micah with the Earthway seeder, a handy gadget which digs your row to the depth you set it, plants the seed, covers it and marks the specified distance to your next row! The only down side is that you can’t soak your seeds or water your rows before you plant so hopefully the seeds do well as we have not had much rain yet!
This year the older boys rented 2 acres of land from a nearby farmer because they wanted to plant some of their carrot crop in sandy soil. They also set things up so they can have three sprinklers going at once using water from the nearby slough. If you enlarge this picture, you can see 2 of the sprinklers running.
The pump running the three sprinklers.
Genesis 2:15 – And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Spring Work
Here are some of the things we have been doing this spring.
Cultivating one of the carrot patches.
We pruned 18 of the 34 cherry tree rows and all 20 rows of apples recently.
Chipper shredding the branches.
Micah mowing the orchard.
Taking down the rink boards so we could plant the garden.
More pictures to come!!
The Trays
Joshua made 4 fold-away trays to replace our old trays which were getting quite rickety. First he took apart the old trays and kept the top board. He sanded it, put veneer on top, put new edges around it and stained it. He made brand new legs which are much sturdier than the old legs were. He also built a new rack to store the trays.
2014 Harvest
Levi has worked for a local farmer for the last few years during harvest. But, this year, since he got an accounting job in Saskatoon, he had to show Jesse what to do because he was only available to help on the weekends. For the first couple years, Levi drove a Cat tractor, but last year he got switched to a John Deere 9200.
Dumping on the go!
Dumping into the grain truck.
Levi drove the grain truck for some of the time, and here he is augering canola into the bins.
Praise God for the good 2014 harvest.
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat,
and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22