Protector of the garlic

Garlic doing well

Aberfoyle Market Association mtg tonight

Big turnout of current and new vendors at the Aberfoyle Farmers' Market Association! It may not seem like a big deal, but this is close to the population of Aberfoyle. On a serious note, one reason our market has relatively few grievances between vendors is because of vendor meetings like this one, where participants get the idea that they're part of a bigger thing. That's the market manager, Matthew Bulmer, on the far right.

Cayenne to the Resue

No, Cayenne is not a character in a comic book western. At the suggestion of garlic farmer Al Cowan, I put a light sprinkling of cayenne, the spice, on the soil where I planted garlic. We live in the city, and the garlic I planted last week in small pots got dug up by squirrels. So I've re-plannted it, this time with a dash of cayenne in the hope that the odour will keep away urban pests.

The garlic I've got growing at Whole Circle Farm doesn't have this problem.