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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...
Gwen
Mar 13, 20245 min read
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....
Bryan
Feb 1, 20247 min read
Welcome to the Lincolns
Adding Lincoln Longwool sheep to our small sheep flock.
Beverly
Jan 17, 20244 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
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...
Gwen
Feb 8, 20233 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
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...
Bryan
Jun 15, 20222 min read
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...
Gwen
Jun 8, 20222 min read
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...
Beverly
Jun 1, 20222 min read
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...
Gwen
May 9, 20222 min read
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