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Podcast 66 – get your kicks Immigration we landed permanent residence long journey – enjoyed the ferry problems with Canadian immigration wait times CIC study to immigrate good way to “try before you buy” bureaucratic system CIC need to work with people not against them Broadband, highspeed, ADSL Spencer - the purr is silenced Introducing Chloe and Harry – 3 months later Chickens Garden update Greenhouse – up and inflated Lots more produce More time More experience Produce – strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, potatoes (including lovely blue ones), beans, peas, courgettes/zucchini, carrots, corn, leeks, asparagus Business update Park - community involvement Bad things Matt – our friends moving to Ottawa AJ - negative election campaigning Good things AJ - potential of us having chicks Matt – PR and ADSL

Right click the orange podcast logo above and "save file as" or "save target as" to download (17.7mb) or right click here for dialup version at 9mb. Podcast 66 – get your kicks Immigration we landed permanent residence long journey – enjoyed the ferry problems with Canadian immigration wait times CIC study to immigrate good way to “try before you buy” bureaucratic system CIC need to work with people not against them Broadband, highspeed, ADSL Spencer - the purr is silenced Introducing Chloe and Harry – 3 months later Chickens Garden update Greenhouse – up and inflated Lots more produce More time More experience Produce – strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, potatoes (including lovely blue ones), beans, peas, courgettes/zucchini, carrots, corn, leeks, asparagus Business update Park - community involvement Bad things Matt – our friends moving to Ottawa AJ - negative election campaigning Good things AJ - potential of us having chicks Matt – PR and ADSL

Here is a short film tour  of our farm this summer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvT12yHvyvA Technorati Tags: smallholding, podchef island, farming, agriculture, sustainability, sustainable farming, homesteading, garden, farm, livestock, vegetables PS some day I ll find out why the plug-in doesn t display the video. . . . Copyright 2008 The Gastrocast. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact info@kitchengardenfoods.com so we can take legal action immediately. Plugin by Taragana

Not podcasted since December… quite a winter.. January – snow February – more snow March – less snow Horticultural happenings - awards - Skills Canada gold medal - commissions - business - job Our garden - greenhouse - soft fruit - grapes Home brewing - beer - wine Immigration update - medicals - bureaucracy - new 5 year graduate work permit My job - at the University - website work Animal updates - Spencer - Dylan - chickens Visitors from England next weekend Bad Things AJ – ticks Matt – bugs Good things AJ – Twinnings Herbal Teas (wellbeing range) Matt – living in the country

2nd anniversary of our first podcast (not going to play it again) 63 podcasts later but bit out of practice. Nice to hear people have come to us after we stopped weekly podcasting and they have listened all the way through - out of real time. Winter - Quite a winter - 5 storms (including last night) - last winter 5 in total - 10cm last night - snow most of December Horticultural happenings - passed semester with honours - one more to go - lots of houseplants propagated Knitting quest for the gnome tree decoration knitted our hats Creeping Canadianisms highway gas Immigration to Nova Scotia - we have PNP People not always doing what they set out to do coming here True of many downshifters Adapt plans if things don't turn out exactly how they are planned Bad Things AJ – TV Matt – snow Good things Matt – snow AJ – snow

Why we stopped podcasting Busy Ran out of things to say Spencer tries to stop the podcast Was worried slightly we had “lost our way” with my new job We are poor, we knit our own yoghurt and hats. Didn't get chickens as we hoped to this year. Got some great emails from people – people said they understood but would miss us. Met some great people visiting Welcome to Nova Scotia – Mark and Tania, Richard and Jane, and Flora and Larry Harvest – potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini/courgettes, squash, chilli peppers, some berries. Next year – carrots, parsnips, more potatoes, onions, more zucchini, berries – hoping the grape vines and kiwi survive. Triumphs of the year - we can look back and give thanks So settled Survived the winter Had some great produce Great fun - spent time together Enjoy walking the garden after dinner New job meant physiotherapy on foot and filling replaced which came out in November AJ learnt to can - chilli jelly, jam, chutney, pickle, salsa AJ has mastered beer - Matthew likes the beer Setbacks Truck still dead – setback – bought car – on credit Not grown as much as we would have liked Money running out faster than we hoped Downshifting is about finding your own path. Choose a different way of living. We need BBC Canada.. Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spooks, Robin Hood, It's not Easy Being Green, Buildings that Shaped Britain. Don't feel homesick but nicely nostalgic. Found our house in a book. The school was bigger than we thought. More outbuildings - like we thought. Bad Things AJ – the truck Matt – cost of insurance Good things AJ – a general sense of joy and contentment Matt – Nova Scotia is my home

Its been a scorcher today and far to hot to work inside, so today I built a water feature for the nursery. Hopefully the water will settle overnight and should be less beige tomorrow morning. Its not a bad life, I got to womble about the nursery gathering materials (nothing bought in) and build something beautiful out of odd and ends. Today we have another new Iris - (I found out that the one in the post below is called Harpswell Hallelujah - a wonderful name for such a stunning flower) The new one bloomed yesterday and has such a vivid colour combination, I decided to share it with you all. I have no idea what this one is called - but I'm starting to develop a deep appreciation of these deep jewel like colours.

Right click the orange podcast logo above and "save file as" or "save target as" to download (11.8mb) or right click here for 32k dialup version at 5.9mb. Truck is dead AJ’s infected bite Job going well Bought a cultivator Grass growing quickly Almost a year on - Achieved a lot - Not always as expected - starting to run out of things to say weekly - getting quite busy doing things - weekly is too much pressure - we will still update the website - subscribe to the email updates or subscribe in bloglines or a newsreader to the general feed Bad Things AJ – infected bite Matt – dead truck Good things Matt – work colleagues we live in a beautiful place AJ – happier, more content with less stress

Feels like spring has come and gone and its summer. Planting update – Spencer ate the corn, planting beds outside – lots of free discarded – “not good enough to sell” plants. Truck MVI Wood for the chicken coop Matt’s new job – back working for a University, back in housing – looking forward to it. Sad to be leaving the supermarket and the nice people – but not the anti-social hours. Leaving pay not too bad (for this area) but new pay better. Is this going backwards on the downshifting thing? AJ working through torrential rain, baking heat, bug plagues Bug update – we were premature last time – they come and go – lots today though. Need a screen house tent thingy Bad Things AJ – bugs Matt – bugs Good things AJ – plants Matt – weather and having weekends back

Spring Cut grass Bulbs appeared Update on our vegetables and herbs AJ work update Matt Work update Truck having MVI tomorrow – wish us luck Chicken house construction starts soon with local timber Bad Things AJ – apprehension about the truck MVI Matt – bugs Good things AJ – being alive Matt – smell of freshly cut grass

Not retiring at 60. 3rd attempt - very tired. Matt has had his siesta. AJ has bottled beer. AJ work placement week. Saltscapes expo. What is the difference between an exposition and exhibition? Tracey Smith in the Toronto Star. Electric poultry netting - mentioned on Geek.Farm.Life. Bagels and Baggels. Gooda and Gouda. Andrew and Misty built their own greenhouse – looking at ways to retain heat. Humidity question - good for some plants but not others. Humidity can cause problems with pests, mold or spores. We are looking for a heated winter greenhouse with dual skin. Sprouting update – what's hot and what's not Water sampling has started again Earthquake – damage in Folkestone – 475 houses damaged. 4.3 magnitude on the Richter scale. We had one in the valley of 3.2 magnitude – was 11th August 2006 so we were living here then (and didn’t notice). Google Map Records 1985 to 1997 – nothing over a 4 First tick - yuk. Don't listen while you eat! Bad Things AJ – first mosquito bite Matt – still a little chilly Good things AJ – bulbs Matt – youtube - numa numa

Happy National Downshifting Week and Earth Day (happy St. George’s Day for tomorrow) Truck update Downshifting week - goals Work starting End of year at college Warm weather – noises – peepers, birds Sad news – made us feel a long way away from home Bad Things AJ – sad news, truck, college ending Matt – truck or nothing Good things AJ – work starting, weather, truck Matt – weather, summer This podcast is dedicated to the memory of AJ's Gran.

Brought to you by AJ's Banana Bread and Celestial Seasons herbal tea Winter storm – LOTS of snow – didn’t last long – single biggest snowfall of the winter. Tracey Smith – Odeo Message – National Downshifting Week and Sustainable Sausage Saturday House prices in the UK - density doubled over past 10 years "Housing people like tinned sardines does not come without costs however. Complaints about noisy neighbours have risen fivefold in the last decade with loud music cited as the chief culprit." Reuters Google maps and Google Earth - 4,416 miles from our old house to our new Kate Adie sounds posher now on From our own Correspondent- said power as "pa" Huggles - What's that all about? Torch Song Trilogy - very well written and acted Taxes - lots of work! Bad Things AJ – hunt for a truck is frustrating Matt – too much oil - ordered $200 of oil - ended up with $450 worth Good things AJ – banana bread Matt – fresh air

Happy Easter Weather has changed for the weekend More plants – house is becoming a nursery. Willow propagating - growing "fedges". Greenhouse - bad news - shipping $600 US from Maine. Still cheaper than other alternatives. Wine and Trees garden – seen in flesh. Looks even better in the flesh than in the photos. Woodpecker AJ has a commission to design a garden Robins are back - 14 robins in the front garden Provincial Nominee Program – NS graduate route immigration forms now available. Wide salary differences in Nova Scotia. www.acountrylife.com – Canadian Immigration discussion board Google ads – experiment. Hopefully not too intrusive. Its free money for us if it works. If you are interested in anything – click it – if not don’t :) Header image has changed. AJ wants to change the bumble bee and the sunflower. May get the bee hives back. Bad Things AJ – snow in spring Matt – muddy water Good things AJ – good things on the horizon Matt – recognition at work that doing a good job

Chainsaw - cut up lots of the oak but still quite a lot to go - sat outside on a bit of the oak tree Spring – seedlings sprouting - greenhouse research Wine and Trees - AJ’s Japanese Garden Immigration rant - there will soon be changes to the Provincial Nominee Program (see last Sunday's post on downshiftme.com) Different woodpecker - will play next week National Downshifting Week New York Times – A Year Without Toilet Paper - need to register now to read or check out No Impact Man blog Bad Things AJ – people drinking when you can’t Matt – work yesterday Good things AJ – chainsaws, praise, sunshine Matt – crocus Plastic bags – to be continued… We play out with the wonderful Sandie Shaw

Right click the orange podcast logo above and "save file as" or "save target as" to download (25mb) or right click here for dialup version at 8.3mb. Oak tree down – rotten down one side – need to buy a chainsaw now. Spring - thawing. Winter storm last night. March break Job news - AJ Woody woodpecker – a pileated woodpecker Geek of the Week – new podcast from www.acountrylife.com coming soon Census – population drop in rural Nova Scotia - turns into a rant about immigration and how NS should fast track immigration to the rural parts of Nova Scotia. New Brunswick has a better provincial nominee program for entrepreneurs. Trying to reduce clear cutting – satellite images showing forestry in NS – on the news showed our house from the air – well the general area. Need sustainable woodland management Jerry and Gemma – good luck with their house building plans – starting very soon. Blogging it. Google Sketch Up Still some windows and doors to add AJ has bought some books Smaller file size – mono for dialup – thanks Daniel Bad Things AJ - bored with snow Matt – work – had its moments this week Good things AJ - Dylan Matt – broadband again Chad Hatcher and Classified

Take 2 First podcast in satellite digital broadband - Frees the phone line - its faster - but not as fast as we had in the UK. - Digging post hole in a snow storm and minus 15 degree windchill - pick axe - Trying to keep concrete warm AJ has enjoyed using Youtube and Google Earth Podcasts - The Now Show – very very funny – very middle class and our generation. 22 minutes. Political satire – we love it. Catching up on – - Geek.Farm.Life - Daily Source Code - Canadian Podcast Buffet We will try different quality settings on our dialup version - this week 40k - feedback is appreciated. BBC 30 things which have changed in the UK AJ looks at trucks – and gets told that an older truck costing less really costs more than a 2007 brand new model. Some people's trucks must be worth more than their houses. Been here for 2 clock changes An email with a yarn about yarn - kind offer from a knitter Frappr update and shoutout - read fast not like Clement Freud being ponderous on Just a Minute. Bad Things Matt - more weather moans - the snow and the Jeep sliding one way and then the next AJ - icicles on eyelashes Good things AJ - March break Matt – higher speed internet