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...
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Bryan
- Jan 11
- 3 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
- 2 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, 2022
- 2 min
Our 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, 2022
- 2 min
Construction Update
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, 2022
- 3 min
Being "New" in Farming
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, 2022
- 2 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, 2022
- 2 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, 2022
- 2 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, 2022
- 2 min
Construction is a part of Farming
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, 2022
- 2 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, 2022
- 2 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, 2022
- 1 min
Lambing Update
Last month I wrote about the frustrations around getting equipment and supplies. Fortunately, most stuff that relates to our lambing is...
Gwen
- Jul 6, 2022
- 3 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, 2022
- 2 min
Out of Stock
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, 2022
- 2 min
Making It Work!
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...
Bryan
- May 18, 2022
- 2 min
Winter is Paperwork Season
It is finally looking like spring here at the farm. No snow has fallen for over a week although night-time temperatures continue to fall...
Gwen
- May 9, 2022
- 2 min
A Collection of "Firsts"!
This is the very first blog post for Borderlands Farm, so I decided to write it about “firsts”. This past month we had our first lamb...
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