Stories from the Farm
We hope you follow us along on our journey of living as 5th generational farmsteaders.
Ag EXCELLENCE!!!!
In November, I attended the Agriculture Excellence Conference in Winnipeg, MB as a guest of Farm Management Canada. I was one of three winners of the “Y We Farm” video contest. I received email updates from Farm Management Canada, and the video contest kept coming...
Wordless Wednesday
Yesterday was a bittersweet day, I had to sell one of my favorite cows. I loved her markings on her face. It reminded me of a rodeo clown (she had a triangle below her eye) and we called her Clownface. She didn't breed back over the summer so we sold her, as she was...
November Update
Since my last post, it has been a busy month on the farm. After the cows come home from their various pastures we usually begin feeding them hay. Hay is fed to all the cows in large bale feeder that hold between 3-6 bales each. We also have a bale shredder that we use...
Bringing Cattle In From Pasture
Two weeks ago we picked up our first group of cows that we pasture on a Provincial Grazing Reserve an hour and a half west of us. It is an action packed busy day that starts very early in the morning and usually doesn’t end until early evening. All the patrons who...
Harvest in Pictures–COMPLETE!
Harvest 2014 can only be described by "Hurry Up and Wait". It seemed when the weather was decent enough to harvest we were go-go-go, and there was always rain lingering in the forecast. At times there wasn't rain in the forecast, yet we got rain. So then we had to...
Harvest in Pictures 2014-An Update
Harvest has felt like hurry-up and wait all season with the less than stellar weather. It seems we get a few good days of weather, then it rains, we sit and wait for it to dry up and the cycle resumes. For this reason, I've had a hard time getting...
Where Does the Farmer Eat?
The other day I was talking to a beef client of mine. We were chatting about how and what we feed the cattle, when she posed an interesting question to me, "Where do you buy the food that you don't produce?" Sometimes I feel it is a misconception that because we...
Harvest in Pictures 2014-Week 1
We had all the crops swathed that we were going to swath. The second cut of hay was knocked down. The combine was out, greased, and ready to go. We got 60 acres of barley done, and then it happened...Snowtember! Yes, the morning of September 9, we woke up to a...
Cows in the Heat–What we do to help
This past summer temperatures spiked close to +30 C here at the farm. While many don't consider that hot compared to other areas of Alberta, across Canada, or the world; cattle thrive quite well in hot conditions. Different breeds of cattle are better suited for...
Ice Bucket Challenge Farm Style
I was nominated today by a fellow Albertan & blogger, Sarah of Nurse Loves Farmer to participate in the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS. I accepted the challenge, made my donation & took the plunge! I know the internet is saturated now with videos of the Ice...