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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Gwen
- Feb 8
- 3 min
Tallow 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...
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...
Beverly
- Jun 1, 2022
- 2 min
Adventures in Fibre
I’m so looking forward to the next fibre adventure in my life. As a teenager I primarily designed and sewed clothing as my creative...
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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