what’s up on the farm

Like the web wound tight around a fly or nets that tangle a fish, I feel my heart ensnared by this country.  Like a twist of binder twine in the grass, like the sleepy snakes I found curled up inside an old tire, like the […]

Fall already! October 15th, 2017 to be exact. It’s a rainy foggy morning like many others lately, but the sun often burns through for a glorious few minutes or hours in the afternoon. It’s Monday, so my daughter is back at her job and I’m […]

Our beautiful Beatrix gave birth to four babies on August 31st. Their dad is a local boy, a handsome German Shepherd . We got to watch the process with our little human buddy! Two girls, then two boys, three are mostly black with bits of […]

The colours are incredible tonight in the Kispiox. We’ve had two hot sunny days and now the wind is up and the clouds are drifting in again. Sunset comes so late and lasts so long that “magic hour” stretches out into the evening and we’re […]

The wind came up last evening, blowing stronger and gustier all the time.  I had just pulled up in the truck, loaded with 1100 pounds of pig porridge (ground-up oats, barley and peas).  Buying it like this, in a big cloth bag which you then […]

February – where’d it go?  Hello March, “in like a lion” with your blustery bone-chilling frozen damp and your saucy dumps of snow on bewildered and beleaguered Southern BC.  Back on the farm after far too long away, I walk into a wall of terrible […]

We’re experiencing that same melt that’s been happening all over the province. A welcome change from the searing cold that carries little beings off in the night, but messy. A thaw is not when the countryside is at its prettiest. The sudden drop in temperature […]