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Our First Meal Grown On Briden Farm

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First Home Grown Meal

Tonight was special, we’ve owned this place for one year and two weeks, to the day. So, this spring we used goats and pigs to clear land for pasture and some of that pasture we turned into garden. Unfortunately we won’t be getting much of a crop as the soil is very nitrogen deficient. 

As a result, I don’t expect to have enough potatoes for Winter, and the green and even the yellow beans I interplanted with them are stunted. So, we figure we might as well enjoy them now. 

We also have turned our Berkshire Pigs into Pork at this point and that’s currently being processed at the butcher. Today we got the heart and liver. We also picked enough new potatoes, and green and yellow beans, to make a nice supper. We actually bought the onions for the liver and onions, but everything else was grown here. Our first meal grown on Briden Farm. The Liver was like sweet, juicy, and tender… Steak! 

Celebrating One Year As Briden Farm

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2020 Photos Briden Farm

This beautiful property has a History that dates back to the time of Simon Imbert, and the house dates back to 1870 when it was built by James & Susan (Rice) Mullen for whom Rice Mullen Road was named. The Property then passed to James & Susan’s daughter Lena Mullen and her husband Fred Harris, son of Charles & Theodosia Harris. Thusly, passing to Fred & Lena’s son Jack Harris by deed from Lena, circa 1954. Then, to us on the 4th of August 2020. Interestingly enough, we are Distant Cousins by both blood and adoption! So, the Property remains “In the Family “. We’ve come to call the place our Homestead Farm, Briden Farm, named after the current owners, Brian & Denis.

The photo at the top of this page depicts what the place looked like when we first discovered it, and the following slide show tries to show some of the work we’ve done in our first year, here at Briden Farm.

Very Happy To Report Hop-A-Long Has A New Home

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Hop-A-Long

We raised Hop-A-Long, with another chick known as Precious, they both come from a person in the Annapolis Valley who sold us a bunch of Aracana Chicks. She was selling them as “Pure Aracana” although we knew they were actually mixed breed Easter Eggers. What we didn’t know was they, or more likely their parents didn’t get the proper nutrition and a number of the Chicks ended up becoming crippled because of it. Anyway, when most people would have tossed them, we raised them. Also, along with them we raised a little chick who come to us after being literally rescued from becoming Snake food! We call that little Chick, now the large white one in the video, we call her Boots! So, the three in the video grew up together. We’ll be keeping Precious and Boots, and we’re now Very Happy To Report Hop-A-Long Has A New Home…

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