It’s 2010 already, and time to put up photos of everything that went wrong with the plants in last year’s cold summer! Also time to place new seed orders. Stay tuned …
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Greetings! Wendy O’Connor here, near Thunder Bay in Northwest Ontario, Canada.

Our first apple! (a Norland)

BearHaven is my market garden enterprise - named for the polite yearly spring visit of a bear, who helps to turn over my compost, leaves some fertilizer in my orchard, and then goes away.

Aside from promoting my produce, I would like to use this site to share information. When I came to Northwest Ontario I was full of questions about what could be grown locally, and how. Also, I was continuing in my exploration of natural methods of growing - sometimes called ‘organic’ or ‘ecological’.

However, the relevance of this site need not be merely local. Much of the information and ideas we can share could be used anywhere in the world - and, who knows where the discussions could lead! A topic about rutabagas could lead to rutabaga recipes, “how rutabagas changed my life”, and the cosmic significance of rutabagas.

Thanks for “bearing” with me as I add to this site, which is still under a year old! (begun in April 2009). You can add to the site yourself by commenting the blog articles.

Best of luck with your own endeavours in 2010!

~Wendy O’Connor den@bearhaven.ca