2025.07.07 – Flocks
Chicken update Summer has officially settled in, and that means it’s time to kick off one of my favorite seasonal rhythms—raising meat birds! This year, I’ve ordered 30 healthy chicks, …
2025.06.03 – Sheepdog?!
I didn’t do a post about this earlier, but we picked up a Border Collie a few weeks ago to help with the Sheep. Hopefully with some training she will …
2025.06.15 – Livestock
After some serious labor, I got the Rabbit run cleaned up from the winter and all tidy for summer breeding! I have begun trying to sell Rabbit bedding/leavings. It is …
2025.07.02 – Livestock
2025 is the year I take the plunge into full time farming, by the end of the summer, I need to have enough livestock and vegetables to feed me and …
WFH – July 2, 2025
After a large time away from WFH due to work, I have returned and with a renewed passion to build this home for my children. I will attempt to update …
2025.05.15 – A-Frame
Today, Dale came by and gave me a hand digging out the srea to put the A-Frame with his skidsteer. We then added the drainage mat. and covered it with …
2025.05.01 – A-Frame
Good morning!! Today, we start the A-Frame. A culmination of all the skills I have learned over the years building. With guidance from some carpenter friends, electricians, and other home …
Foraging – June 8th, 2024
As promised! I have begun to harvest spruce tips! Now, if I was going to use these directly for tea or something and not add anything to them, I would …
Yurts – May 31, 2024
Aaaahhhhhhh! It’s finally finished! The new crown for my Yurt! At super close inspection there are some flaws. But this was my first time building something like this! So I …
Foraging season begins! – May 30, 2024
Here in northern Alberta we’ve been getting hit with regular rain pretty well all of this passed month. Which is great for the plants and preventing “wild fires”. It has …