Farm Community

One of the reasons that attracted us to this particular apprenticeship, was the number of different enterprises on this farm. Heather's Aunt and Uncle live here and run a small flower operation, the "Apprentices that never left" are running their own succesful organic farm just on the other side of the creek and Saanich Organics' cooperatively run greenhouse and fields are here, with their own employees.

There are enough different people around that even though Jill and I are usually working on our own tasks for Northbrook, we can usually at least see someone else going about their work. This is nice. A dozen of us got together at the Saanich Road House for their dirt cheap Wednesday burger and beer last night. I think it went a long way towards helping to knit together the community of young farmers in our area.

One exciting discovery was that there is a young couple setting up a new farm just down the road from us. They don't even have a name for their farm, but based on their perserverance throughout unexpected challenges (streams running through the field, wind storms, etc), someone suggested the name F*#$ It Farms. I think it has a nice ring to it and it would definitely garner attention at the market.