This morning as my family was having breakfast my, four-year-old daughter turned to my three-year-old daughter and said, “Well, Anna, once the apples are ripe you won’t be seeing me at the breakfast table anymore. I’ll be working, packing apples with dad, long before you’re awake!” And I thought to myself, “That child was born to farm.”
People often ask me what my husband’s hours are. That is a question I do not know how to answer. The reason is if he is awake, he is farming. Or, maybe more accurately, if he is alive, he is farming! I head out the door in the morning with my children in tow and then I see my small kids working alongside my eighty-five-year-old grandpa, and it is not drudgery. Farming is a lifestyle and we absolutely love it! Is it challenging? Yes. Are there moments we would rather be doing something else or not do tasks that are not our favourite? You bet. But we would not trade it for the world.
Not all of us Davisons are directly farming in the fields, but we are all actively farming in many different ways. A big part of my role is to keep my husband, my family, and whoever else wanders through my door, fed. Of course, my favourite way to do that is by using the abundance that is growing outside my front door. And when I say it is growing, I mean it! Today is officially the first day of summer and everything is soaking in the sun, growing and changing daily. The apples are roughly the size of a toonie, the tomatoes will soon start to change colour, the corn is beginning to tassel, and strawberries, zucchini and cherries are already in the market right now! With the arrival of cherries come some of the most anticipated bakery treats such as cherry pie and cherry chocolate cake. My mouth is watering just thinking about it! And to put the cherry on top (pun intended), I am going to share with you my simple cheesecake recipe topped with a cherry compote, the perfect dessert to serve at a Canada Day celebration.
Probably not very many of you are deep in the lifestyle of farming. Each of us have our own daily tasks, our own set of work, our own things we enjoy. We as a family are very thankful to you, our loyal customers, because it is you who enable us to keep doing what we love. We hope that whatever it is your hands find to do, you would be able to enjoy it. For, as Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 2:24-25,
“A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work.
This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without Him, who can eat or find enjoyment?”
So, happy first day of summer, happy Canada Day, and happy working, from all of us here who were born to farm.
Rachel Davison
4th Generation Farmer’s Wife
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The reason is if he is awake, he is farming. Or, maybe more accurately, if he is alive, he is farming! I head out the door in the morning with my children in tow and then I see my small kids working alongside my eighty-five-year-old grandpa, and it is not drudgery. Farming is a lifestyle and we absolutely love it! Is it challenging? Yes. Are there moments we would rather be doing something else or not do tasks that are not our favourite? You bet. But we would not trade it for the world. 
outside my front door. And when I say it is growing, I mean it! Today is officially the first day of summer and everything is soaking in the sun, growing and changing daily. The apples are roughly the size of a toonie, the tomatoes will soon start to change colour, the corn is beginning to tassel, and strawberries, zucchini and cherries are already in the market right now! With the arrival of cherries come some of the most anticipated bakery treats such as cherry pie and cherry chocolate cake. My mouth is watering just thinking about it! And to put the cherry on top (pun intended), I am going to share with you my simple cheesecake recipe topped with a cherry compote, the perfect dessert to serve at a Canada Day celebration. 
