BryanFeb 155 minThunder Bay is not close to Cookstown: A Shipping Sheep DisasterI think we have mentioned in earlier blogs that I had bought some additional sheep – four rams and five ewe lambs for breeding. They were...
GwenFeb 83 minTallow soap, anyone?It’s funny how life works. A few months ago, I was not thinking about making soap. Although I have made soap before, it hadn’t even...
BeverlyJul 27, 20222 minI got my eye on eweNot growing up on a farm, when I first started visiting fellow farmer’s operations, I thought that farmers spent a surprising amount of...
BryanJul 13, 20221 minLambing UpdateLast month I wrote about the frustrations around getting equipment and supplies. Fortunately, most stuff that relates to our lambing is...
GwenJul 6, 20223 minThe 411 on LambingThe 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...
BrodyJun 22, 20222 minT.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...
BryanJun 15, 20222 minOut of StockThere is a common refrain from most every farmer I know (and certainly the situation extends well beyond farming) – about the huge delays...
GwenJun 8, 20222 minMaking 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...
BeverlyJun 1, 20222 minAdventures in FibreI’m so looking forward to the next fibre adventure in my life. As a teenager I primarily designed and sewed clothing as my creative...
GwenMay 9, 20222 minA 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...