“Don’t Let the Old Man In”
Toby Keith passed away last week. If his name doesn’t ring a bell, he was a country artist that Bryan and I listened to especially in the...
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Gwen
Jan 262 min
You Can Dress for the Weather: Winter Clothing that Works on Farm
I never thought I would take on a job that has me going outside in a Canadian winter. I am one of those people that gets cold really...
Gwen
Aug 30, 20233 min
Sheep aren't dogs. Thank goodness.
When I first started working with sheep, I assumed that over time we would develop some sort of “relationship”. Even at the beginning of...
Bryan
Feb 15, 20235 min
Thunder Bay is not close to Cookstown: A Shipping Sheep Disaster
I think we have mentioned in earlier blogs that I had bought some additional sheep – four rams and five ewe lambs for breeding. They were...
Bryan
Jan 11, 20233 min
A Year in Review on the Farm
2023 is now here, but we are still very ‘early’ in the new year and what happened in 2022 is still very much impacting us. Aside from the...
Gwen
Jan 4, 20232 min
Celebrating 2022
Like most people, I tend to focus on what is not going well or what we didn’t get to, but before we swap out the calendar, I wanted to...
Brody
Oct 19, 20222 min
Making it Work: Our "New" Water Trailer
Sheep, like all animals have basic needs: shelter, companionship, food (and of interest to today’s blog), water. Normally our sheep have...
Bryan
Oct 12, 20222 min
Construction Update: October 2022
My focus here at the farm over the last while has been the building of Gwendolyn and Brody’s house. While it has been a major focus of...
Gwen
Oct 5, 20223 min
New Farmers in a New Town
Back a few months ago when the #tbayinseason folks came out to interview us for their website, we somehow landed on the topic of how we...
Bryan
Sep 14, 20222 min
Winter is Coming
So fall is just around the corner! Not necessarily what a farmer wants to think about – especially up here where winter likes to in sneak...
Gwen
Sep 7, 20222 min
Lamb, wool and garlic...?
I had a customer the other day comment that we had an unusual range of products for a sheep farm, and she is probably right! While we are...
Brody
Aug 24, 20222 min
Rock and Roll Party Farm
Haying time is here again, and while it is later in the season than usual, and it seems to be taking much longer than anticipated thanks...
Bryan
Aug 17, 20222 min
Construction Season on a Farm
Each year since we moved to the farm here south of Thunder Bay, there has been “construction”. Some of it more minor – fence re-building...
Gwen
Aug 10, 20222 min
Leaving the Farm
This week is my Dad’s (Bryan) week to blog but he has been away from the farm on vacation so I am subbing in. It is probably obvious to...
Beverly
Jul 27, 20222 min
I got my eye on ewe
Not growing up on a farm, when I first started visiting fellow farmer’s operations, I thought that farmers spent a surprising amount of...
Bryan
Jul 13, 20221 min
Lambing Update: July 2022
Last month I wrote about the frustrations around getting equipment and supplies. Fortunately, most stuff that relates to our lambing is...
Gwen
Jul 6, 20223 min
The 411 on Lambing
The other day someone asked how things on the farm were going and I said it was really busy because we are lambing. They asked me what...
Bryan
Jun 15, 20222 min
Out of Stock: How the supply chain issues are impacting us
There is a common refrain from most every farmer I know (and certainly the situation extends well beyond farming) – about the huge delays...
Gwen
Jun 8, 20222 min
Making it Work: Our Barn
Our barn started life as a cattle barn. It then was used for pigs by the previous owners. Now we are using it for sheep. This means there...
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