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It’s mid July in Alberta Canada, and Robert and I are studying banana fertilizer needs on the internet. Somehow, with canola blooming and wheat heading outside our window, it feels a little strange – we’re a long ways from Africa! … Continue reading →

There are a lot of discouraged farmers out there. So I’m always duly impressed when I meet young people that are excited and passionate about farming. I’m doubly impressed when they’re farming in an area that others are leaving. Recently, … Continue reading →

“This is my best memory of Canada – I’m riding in a Dodge truck, it’s raining, and I’m eating ice cream,” said our daughter-in-law from Switzerland as she was enjoying a cool rainy day in Westlock, Alta. We’re just happy … Continue reading →

We spent a week with my family in Cecil Lake, the B.C. North Peace Country. After a serious drought last year things are looking much better now. There won’t be bumper crops this year either but they could be decent. … Continue reading →

Is it raining outside my window? – Just wishful thinking. It’s the sprinkler. I’m watering the garden, hoping that will bring on rain.  Maybe I should wash my windows and the car too – it might be more effective. I … Continue reading →

It’s dry out there I don’t like to drive through the countryside when the pastures aren’t turning green, the tiny canola is turning blue, and the sun beats down mercilessly. You’d think since we rented out the farm the weather … Continue reading →

Flying over the farmland towards Edmonton last Thursday I said to Robert, “there’s something wrong down there.” It’s not because we’ve just come from Switzerland where the canola pods are leaning heavily, and the first barley is already starting to … Continue reading →

I’m hanging in the air – literally, somewhere over the far northeast of Canada. Figuratively I hang between my three worlds – Zambia, Switzerland, and Alberta. When we first got back to Switzerland people often asked me: ‘Bisch scho aacho?” … Continue reading →

Bonjour. Comment ca va? C’est tres bien. My mother-in-law enjoyed herself so much she wanted to stay a week! I think she loved having all her seven children and their spouses around her for two days. She was sure she’d … Continue reading →

Tonight is the beginning of the Pentecost long weekend. It’s also the beginning of long traffic jams in front of the Gotthard tunnel. The tunnel is the main connection to southern Switzerland with its Italian villages tucked between high mountains … Continue reading →