Open Barn Day at the farm, this Saturday, February 18th.
For anybody who would like to come and experience lambing time, we’d like to invite you to our farm this Saturday, February 18th, between 10:30 and 12:30. We can’t guarantee it, but you may see lambs born and you will certainly be able to see new lambs with their moms in our maaaaaaaternity ward, (s0rry, couldn’t resist!) and perhaps even get to feed one a bottle. Bring your cameras and wear boots, as it’s muddy. If you’d like to be able to hold lambs, it’s best to wear old clothes as well, as baby...
read moreHolstein cross lambs??
Holstein crosses for Valentine’s Day? More photos and lambing updates on our Facebook.
read moreAnother interesting article by Michael Pollan and some lambing news.
Many of you who have read my comments on this website will know that I am a Michael Pollan fan. His letter to the “Farmer In Chief”, published in the New York Times in 2008, is required reading for our farm apprentices. In case you missed that and would like to read it, here is the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?_r=1 For anybody interested in food security and ethical and sustainable agriculture I would also highly recommend his book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”. More recently he...
read moreFirst lambs!
First lambs have arrived. Hope we get a few hours gap before the deluge starts. The tractor tire fell off yesterday – spindle broke – so we’re still cleaning out the barn and setting up lambing pens, trying to keep ahead of the lambs. I’ll try to write updates each day if we don’t get too swamped! Also be sure to check out our facebook page HERE! We try to post news on both facebook and the website, but sometimes we only have time to do one. There is plenty of content on our Facebook which you may not have seen...
read moreSleet
So glad we don’t have lambs yet and sorry for those people who do. Sleet’s much worse for lambs than snow is and it’s sleeting like crazy out here. Definitely the sort of day we’d be emptying all our garbage bins and putting them on their sides in the fields so the lambs could crawl in for shelter.
read moreSnow!
Very glad that we have a bit of snow on the grass, to insulate it from this frigid air! Hopefully when the cold passes it will recover and start to grow again. Our ewes and lambs are going to be needing it in a couple of weeks.
read moreHappy New Year!
Happy New Year everybody! Our farm market is back up and going today – we took last Sunday off as it was Christmas! 4198 Stillmeadow Road in Metchosin (off Witty Beach Road) for any of you who haven’t visited us there yet. To start off the new year, here’s something from an old year – 1946: And for any of you willing to brave the icy waters of Witty’s in January, there is a polar bear swim there from 2:00 until approximately 2:01 today. Follow Witty Beach Road past our market to the parking lot – the swim...
read moreEating animals
I found this a thought-provoking article that explores some of key issues concerning the subject of whether or not to eat meat. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/eating-animals/250179/ What do you think about it?
read moreInteresting Article
Recently I read Nicolette Hahn Niman’s “Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms” and found it very interesting. This article she wrote a couple of years ago for the New York Times outlines some of the issues she discussed in that book. In this article, she brings up some fascinating and controversial points about global warming and livestock...
read morePhotos From Friends
One of the best things about living on a farm is the wildlife we get to see. Unfortunately we rarely get a chance to stop and take photos. Luckily we have some friends who are amazing photographers, and who have spent some time in the last month or two photographing some of the creatures that live in the farm ponds and hedgerows. Even a few of our sheep. Here are some of their spectacular photos. Chantal Jacques photographed all except the bear photos, which were taken by Dean Sheridan in the Taylor Road orchard last fall, and the cougar...
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