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Growing Better Pastures: What We're Learning About Hay, Seeding, and Soil Health
If you have been following along on social media or if you read last week’s blog, you know that my #pastureproject this year is to...
Gwen
Jul 303 min read
Hay Isn’t Just Hay
When I first started farming, I knew hay was dried forage (grasses and legumes) and that we needed enough of it to feed our sheep through...
Gwen
Jul 232 min read
“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...
Beverly
Feb 14, 20244 min read
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
Jan 26, 20242 min read
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...
Gwen
Aug 30, 20233 min read
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
Feb 15, 20235 min read
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...
Bryan
Jan 11, 20233 min read
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...
Gwen
Jan 4, 20232 min read
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...
Brody
Oct 19, 20222 min read
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...
Bryan
Oct 12, 20222 min read
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...
Gwen
Oct 5, 20223 min read
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...
Bryan
Sep 14, 20222 min read
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...
Gwen
Sep 7, 20222 min read
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...
Brody
Aug 24, 20222 min read
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...
Bryan
Aug 17, 20222 min read
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...
Gwen
Aug 10, 20222 min read
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...
Beverly
Jul 27, 20222 min read
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...
Bryan
Jul 13, 20221 min read
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...
Gwen
Jul 6, 20223 min read
T.I.N.T.
As we continue to learn more about sheep farming and the various (and numerous) procedures associated with the lambing process, it seems...
Brody
Jun 22, 20222 min read
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