GwenMar 135 minGrowing Clean Wool Fleece: Part 2 Coating SheepIf 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...
BryanFeb 17 minImporting 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....
GwenAug 30, 20233 minSheep 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...
BryanFeb 15, 20235 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 8, 20233 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 Update: July 2022Last 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...