Seed harvest. Basque peppers. Note to self: don’t touch your eyes while doing this. 😭

As we gear up for xmas dinner and look for those tasty veges, spare a thought to what you can't find now. Support local growers and seed savers.

Radishes galore!

Potato bliss www.instagram.com/reel/DRC0ik-...

Our basque red corn has done really well. Great colours and looking forward to making polenta, grits, tortillas! www.instagram.com/reel/DPWfGJY...

I thought the "rule of law" dunk was pretty hilarious.

Yup, market day.

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

Good week with the OFB in France. Erosion and sed control workshop.

Any Senators here? I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/

Tomatoes are ripening nicely. What do you call a grouping of tomatoes like this? #tomatoes #farming

Bang on!

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

Great looking piments d'Espelette. Mildly hot but not too screaming hot. First batch to come in for the season. Want seeds? #metchosinfarm

Elephant garlic coming out of the garden beds. Huge bulb and a super long scape!

Garlic galore. Harvest is in and trimming the bulbs up for storage. Who likes a nice bit of farm fresh garlic? #garlic

Motherfucking wind farms…

Beautiful purple ears on Painted Mountain heirloom corn. Small population, manual fertilization. See the colours of their kernels. Seeds at metchosinfarm.ca

Orchard ladder for scale. Giant Basque corn. Encouraging fertilization with tassel bags to sprinkle pollen over silks. #artogorria #corn #heirloom #farming #metchosinfarm

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

Interesting variations in seed colours, size, kernels...from the OSU (Oregon) naked barley project. From black to violet, with short and long awns and varying seedhead shapes. #farming #seeds

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Thought provoking article on the deportation of dissent www.kitchencounter.blog/p/on-the-dep...

Fish are historically anti fascist.

For kernels scraped off the barn floor, this is a pretty good germ rate. Corn collected in the Pays Basque, France, and is an heirloom variety called arto gorria.

“Donald Trump has manufactured a crisis and is inflaming conditions.” - @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Trump Playbook 1. Intentionally create a crisis 2. Blame Dems, Biden & Obama 3. Abuses his power to claim VICTORY This *strategy* wastes tax-payers money & inflicts emotional terrorism on us all.

Red ripper cowpeas, christmas limas, scarlet runners, italian pole, aztec bush, promiscuous peas....all in. Finally. Juggling with isolation distances and space. These rippers were planted into a cover crop permanent no till bed. #metchosinfarm #seedsaving

First shoots of red Basque corn coming up. Brought from the Basque country last year after meeting a farmer who gave me a few handfuls of kernels of his arto gorria.

I don't think the dean of the now-defunct Trump University has the right to say jack shit to Harvard. Fucking idiot.

Germans know that fascists must be stopped before fascists destroy democracy.

So cool!

Who hid Americans during the 1979 hostage crisis? Canada. 🇨🇦 👊🏻

Pretending climate risks don't exist doesn't make them go away, unfortunately. This move puts Americans, our communities, and our security at risk.

Sagan had it right.

This isn't great news. Agriculture is vulnerable to soil moisture and pest trends under a warming climate.

Garlic crop coming along nicely. 8 beds, about 2500 plants. #garlic #farming

The Conservative Party under Pierre Poilievre threw open the doors to the most radical climate denialists & has adopted the view that steps forward net-zero are "radical". The Conservatives are basically sock puppets for the fossil fuel industry www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The World Meteorological Organization report on the State of the Global Climate 2024 was released today: "...led to the highest number of new displacements recorded for the past 16 years, contributed to worsening food crises, and caused massive economic losses." Press: wmo.int/news/media-c...

MSV - maraichage sur sol vivant en pratique ici à metchosinfarm.ca Deux ans qu'on applique cette approche. Cela prends environ 2 ans ou plus pour que les vers+ bouffent le BRF. Bravo ver de terre et @inrae-france.bsky.social formation.verdeterreprod.fr/courses/msv

Another global sea level update with satellite altimetry data now processed by CNES/AVISO through late January 2025. It's accelerating. 🌊 + Note that this graph was produced by www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/prod...

During the last hundred years, 75% of our food crop varieties became extinct. Today, only 10% of the remaining varieties are available from seed companies. Got seeds? metchosinfarm.ca

No bone spurs detected.

Went to the Organic Seed Alliance conference in Corvallis last week. Takeaways: Seeds & seed security are cornerstones of food system resilience. Without 'em, we are reliant on large agribusiness, a narrow range of F1 hybrid seed, and a vulnerable food system. stateoforganicseed.org/key-findings/

Buy local. Buy canadian if you can. Support local farmers & suppliers. Start your garden to feed yourself. Seed the future. metchosinfarm.ca

Of all the birds in the world, 70% are poultry, mainly raised in battery cages, and 60% of all mammals on earth are cattle, mainly cattle and pigs.

Upper ocean heat content is also soaring off the chart with the latest data update from the Japan Meteorological Agency... 0-700 meter graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... 🌊

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.

Buy Canadian, grow your own food, support local food suppliers. Starts with seed security at the bottom of the food supply chain. Canadian seed growers, like Metchosin Farm, do good stuff: www.tiktok.com/@metchosinfa...