Two more days...

Oh man, I'm getting tired! I'm on a really long run of shifts, thanks to a team change. I had to adapt to their schedule, and they were on 3 more day shifts after my last 4 days, for a total of 7 9.25 hour shifts in a row! Two more left, and I get 4 days off though, not too shabby.

So, I did get some tires, and my God, were they freakin heavy! I went to the local Fountain Tire, and just asked them for some old tires, thinking they would have a bunch of small car and truck tires. Turns out they do mostly semi-trucks and the occasional tractor, so they have a lot of those tires. I did get a few smaller ones too, though. I also found two large tractor tires in my field, and I've dragged one over to the garden, and the other one will be on my days off. I filled the one with some nice, rich soil over top of newspaper, layered with some straw, and more soil over that. I put a chunk of really old manure crumbled on the very top, and sprinkled a bunch of carrot seeds on the dirt. Then, I mulched that. We've got another frost warning tonite!!!!!!!! Are we actually going to get a summer here?

So, I looked into the selling ice cream idea. I need 5 permits. Seriously. To sell frozen, prepackaged ice cream, I need 5 permits, and an inspection from Health Canada. Is it even worth it? Each permit has a fee attached, and the inspection is almost certainly quite costly. I'm not sure I could make much money at it, after all the expenses! What a gyp...
I have all the material to make the cart, so I might do it anyway, and then use it for some other nefarious purpose.

I have kind of settled on the type of farm I would like to operate. I want a large orchard, and a small U-pick operation, with some various types of berries, including raspberries, saskatoons, and some cherries. I'm lazy, and I'm not going to make this a very "intensive" operation. That means wide tree placement, very little pruning, and no spraying of any kind. If the birds eat my fruit, then they get some, and I get some. I'll keep the raspberries from spreading, and try to add lots of organic material, but as I said, the less work, the better!

I'll post some pics of the tire gardening, and my potatoe hills as soon as I take some. The potatoes are actually sprouting, despite the numerous frosts. They are under straw, which probably saves them from freezing.