First Post

On August 30th, 2008, my husband, our two cats and I moved from our duplex in the middle of Montreal to a 6-acre homestead on Robinson’s Corners Road in North Stormont County, Ontario.

Calling it a “homestead” may be a little disingenuous right now. The house itself is a suburban three-bedroom bungalow that wouldn’t look at all out of place in the bits of suburbia that t! (that’s the husband) and I grew up in. Except that it has a well and septic rather than city water & sewage, you couldn’t tell from the inside of the house that it’s in the middle of nowhere. However, it was built by Nick (our next-door neighbor) for his sister 25 years ago. So it’s very, very well build and in excellent condition.

And we have 6 acres of fields between two treelines, with no neighbors to the east, and we’re mostly surrounded by Mike’s (that ‘s our across-the-street neighbor) 600-acre holding. Eventually we will have a big vegetable garden, a fruit orchard, chickens, field crops, and pigs. And Mike will sell us some more acreage if we decided we need it. For now I still have to transplant the asparagus that I brought from our garden in the city.