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...
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Bryan
- Feb 15
- 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
- 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...
Gwen
- Jan 4
- 2 min
Celebrating 2022
Like most people, I tend to focus on what is not going well or what we didn’t get to, but before we swap out the calendar, I wanted to...
Beverly
- Oct 26, 2022
- 3 min
The Learning Curve
So, the other day I was scrolling through Instagram reels to get a few laughs. I stumbled on one talking about the construction of a...
Gwen
- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 min
New Farmers in a New Town
Back a few months ago when the #tbayinseason folks came out to interview us for their website, we somehow landed on the topic of how we...
Beverly
- Aug 31, 2022
- 3 min
Getting into Growing Garlic
My journey to growing garlic started with the passion of one man: Ted Maczka, of Fish Lack in Prince Edward County, Ontario. He was a...
Beverly
- Jun 29, 2022
- 3 min
My (reluctant) Return to Natural Dye
A few weekends ago my daughter and I attended a dye shop training hosted by the Range Fiber Art Guild in Cotton, Minnesota, which is just...
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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