New season honey
Andrew has been busy the past week harvesting a good crop of honey. We have always enjoyed his honey but I think that this year’s is the best yet! The flavor of some of it is... Read more
Our new Canadian
Colleen has been a little busy these days! In addition to looking after five young children, working some nursing shifts at McFarland Home in Picton, doing farm and garden chores, helping Andrew with honey... Read more
After the Storm
Several of you in BC asked how we did during the big ice storm of the past weekend. It was a wicked three days of weather with high temperatures staying well below freezing the whole... Read more
Goat kids 2018
How do you end a long period of silence on your farm blog? Post a video of goat kids playing!! So that’s what I’m doing here. I hope you enjoy it as much as we... Read more
Paddocks: Before, after and after
About every week we move the goats into a new paddock of between 1/4 and 1/2 an acre. With all the rain that we have been receiving this summer, the paddocks have been lush with... Read more
Goats at work and play
Despite no longer having pigs, life has been so busy these late Spring/early Summer days that we haven’t updated the blog for a while. Here are a couple of little videos of our... Read more
Pigs no more
In life, and especially on a farm, things don’t always turn out as planned. Here is such a story: After much searching to find available weaner pigs (little pigs that have been recently... Read more
No drought now!
We have been asked if the floods in Ontario & Quebec are affecting us. The answer is “yes” and “no.” “No”‘ because there are no raging rivers rushing into homes and properties here but... Read more