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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Gwen
Mar 63 min
Growing Clean Wool Fleece: Part 1
A current growing pain we have is how to economically keep the sheep’s fleece as clean as possible. Unfortunately, the nature of wool...
Beverly
Feb 144 min
“Don’t Let the Old Man In”
Toby Keith passed away last week. If his name doesn’t ring a bell, he was a country artist that Bryan and I listened to especially in the...
Bryan
Jan 11, 20233 min
A Year in Review on the Farm
2023 is now here, but we are still very ‘early’ in the new year and what happened in 2022 is still very much impacting us. Aside from the...
Gwen
Jan 4, 20232 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...
Gwen
Oct 5, 20223 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...
Brody
Sep 21, 20222 min
See you at the Farmer's Market
We have started at the Thunder Bay Country Market recently and have been pleasantly surprised by both the positive responses from...
Beverly
Aug 31, 20223 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...
Bryan
Aug 17, 20222 min
Construction Season on a Farm
Each year since we moved to the farm here south of Thunder Bay, there has been “construction”. Some of it more minor – fence re-building...
Bryan
Jul 13, 20221 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...
Bryan
Jun 15, 20222 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...
Beverly
Jun 1, 20222 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...
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