Sleet
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...
read moreNew Website
Our new website is up and running, as some of you may have noticed. We have added many more photos and have replaced the “News” with a blog, and invite feedback from you about what we say there, and also feedback about any of our recipes you have tried. Hope they’re successful for you but we’d also like to hear if they’re not! We also welcome any recipes that you would like to share, as well as any photos of the farm. We have also updated information on stores and restaurants that feature our lamb – their loc
read moreWe have recently started having a page on Facebook: Parry Bay Sheep Farm. If you’re a Facebook afficionado, please “like” us there. That way you will be assured of getting up-to- date news about the farm, at those times that I’m slow adding to the news here on our website. Soon we will be shearing and lambing and plan to have open house days for both events, which will be posted on Facebook, so we don’t want anybody to miss out on that who might want to come and watch. Although the summer farmers’...
read morepoo power
I was in Peppers recently (http://peppers-foods.com/) checking out the lamb and chicken they buy from us, and noticed an interesting label with a Scanlife code on it, on a package of ground beef from Spring Creek Ranch. When I scanned it with my phone it led me to the most amazing video – talk about a sustainable farm! At least, after the initial infrastructure is paid for. Here it is, for any of you who are interested:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zVsoJJuzDCkOur sheep put their manure back on the fields,...
read moreSome photos shared by Andrew Simmonds
Andrew is one of our young neighbours who often helps out on the farm. These are all photos that he has taken over the past few months. I haven’t captioned each of them, but there are photos of John, the interior of our barn and other barns we lease for our chickens and Tom’s pigs, our cat Tuliese, most of our tractors, haying equipment and combine, our sheep grazing on our fields at home, some close-ups of some barley we’re growing, and our wheat fields before and after combining. There is even a photo of Andrew up on the...
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