Growing Clean Wool Fleece: Part 2 Coating Sheep
If you follow us on social media, you may have noticed that some of our sheep are wearing coats at this time of year. We coat our sheep...
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Bryan
- Feb 1
- 7 min
Importing Rams from the U.S.: Get ready for headaches.
One major challenge that we have here at Borderlands Farm is that the breeds of sheep we have here are not common in most of Canada....
Beverly
- Jan 17
- 4 min
Welcome to the Lincolns
Adding Lincoln Longwool sheep to our small sheep flock.
Gwen
- Aug 30, 2023
- 3 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, 2023
- 5 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...
Gwen
- Feb 8, 2023
- 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: 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, 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: 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, 2022
- 2 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...
Beverly
- Jun 1, 2022
- 2 min
My Next Fibre Adventure
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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