The past year has been an incredibly exciting time for us in fibre. Our 2024 wool clip, sheared in early March, was our largest ever, with enough raw fleece to have three natural colours spun at Wave Fibre Mill: dark charcoal brown, pewter and white. They did an amazing job of getting our whole clip […]
Yarns! Designers! Beanies! Read More »
Before I started farming, I wanted to have sheep, so I could have wool and make a fine suiting fabric. I’ve always loved textiles, and on a trip to England with my best friend Julia more than 2 decades ago, we were visiting Hadrian’s wall, and surrounded by sheep on pasture. We saw twin lambs,
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And here we are at the start (ok, I know, it’s now March) of another year. Another year of uncertainty due to Covid, and further geopolitical conflict with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The IPCC also just released another report about the climate crisis which doesn’t exactly read hopeful. But what is one to do? Curl
The farm evolution revolution continues Read More »
I saw an Instagram post from #butterworksfarmvt today with the phrase in the title, “The answer is soil. The question is irrelevant.” (from a book by Didi Pershouse ‘The Ecology of Care’). Made me think of ‘Life, the Universe, and Everything’ by Douglas Adams, where the ultimate answer is ’42’. Also irrelevant ;P But then
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When I first left Toronto in 2008 to start a new life in farming, I started writing a blog on Blogspot, to keep friends, family and other interested parties updated on what I was learning and doing along the way. That blog became the farm’s de facto website with the addition of information pages (Contact/FAQ/etc.),
After 12 years…finally, a real website for the farm! Read More »
On top of living with the anxiety and uncertainties of the Covid-19 pandemic, these last few days have seen much righteous anger over the terrible murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This, on top of so many other incidents, even right here in Canada: Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto, D’Andre Campbell in Brampton, 3 Indigenous police
A response to George Floyd’s murder Read More »
Boy, has life every been busy since I last wrote. Not that farm life is generally known for down time, but each week has been going by in a blur. Marisol started working at the farm at the beginning of May, coming for 1-1.5 days per week. So far, we’ve been prepping beds in the
Challenging so-called spring so far Read More »
I have been very anxious these last few weeks, and I don’t think I’m usually a particularly anxious kind of person. I haven’t left the farm since March 22, my last day going in to the tax office to work. I’ve still been swamped with work at home, between various contracts, farm planning, CSA marketing,
Wishlist for a New World Order Read More »
Hmmm…it takes a coronavirus pandemic for me to take the time to write a blog post. As any of you who have children know, having young children (Emma’s turning three in May) means you have no free time. Or actually, no time in general. Especially now as day cares are all closed. I’m not going
Happy Earth Day everyone! It was certainly a lovely, warm day here at the farm, one of the few we’ve had so far this spring. Seemed like winter wanted to hang on forever, and then of course, spring flooding from lots of rain, still frozen ground, and rapid snow/ice melt…sigh…this is why I’ll be building
Earth Day should be every day Read More »
