The Organic Life

Here are Keira and Rideau in the new little parlor Linton built at the farm in McBride. Rideau is demonstrating the process for these pictures. The vacuum pump is mounted on the outside of the...

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Mowing our first field of hay at the new BC farm. The new mower is working out really well.

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We bought some grapes from a neighbor. They are just slips, but are growing real well. They are tart, but will make a nice jelly or cider of course.  

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Keira ’s baby is old enough to be alone all day now, so Keira goes out to graze all day, and comes back to baby every evening and spends the night with her  here in the corals behind the barn...

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We got these 2 wagon reaches pretty cheap, and need to build a rack on them to haul the hay home. One of the farms is about a half hour drive away, but we will still need to get the hay home and...

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Despite how dry this summer has been in McBride, for right now we are getting pretty good pasture re-growth. This field was pastured once and is ready for another rotation.  Linton has been doi...

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Can’t have a mower and a rake and no baler! This an older John Deer baler, but seems to work real well. The bales are small round bales measuring about 5 feet wide and 4 feet high, but will se...

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What’s a farm without a Border Collie? This is Tucker. We adopted him from a family in the lower mainland. He hunts ants all day long. He has one blue eye and one brown eye, and is about 14 mo...

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Can’t have a mower and no rake, so this is our new (again, pre-owed) Degelman rake. 5 baskets on each side, and opens up to about 28 feet. Should make short work of a big field of hay.  

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We didn’t truck the hay equipment from Ontario to BC, but bought new (well, pre-owned, but new to us) stuff in BC. Here is the Rowse mower. Don’t see many in Canada. It is an old idea come b...

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The bulbs mom left in the potting shed when she had to return to Ontario April 10th have thrived, thanks to her water drip trick. They were left unattended in the shed till Linton got there earl...

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Rideau was one of the dry cows who went west with the first load in May. We woke up to her having calved with a new heifer calf on the morning of June  29. Here she is in the morning sun. I ha...

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Keira was the first cow to calve out west. This is her calf, first one born at the new farm, and it’s a heifer too. She has no name yet.  

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Mom is back in BC to help with the hay. She sends a picture of the heifers coming into the water tub in early evening. These girls have thrived after being moved from Ontario to the new farm in...

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This Is What Happens To Your Body When You Switch To Organic Food : An interesting little article and video from Sweden. 

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Some cow portraits; just for fun.

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The dairy herd on pasture after milking as the sun goes down. Tomorrow, we will do it all again.

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Here is my nephew Lukka inspecting the cows after milking. Maybe he will grow up to be our next herdsman! Tatyanna is giving him a good looking over anyway.

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Here is Debbie scratching mosquito bites on the old hay wagon.  Oh baby, does that hit the spot. Heaven can be defined in many different ways.

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This is Share eating short grass. Horses prefer short grass to graze. Cows have no upper front teeth, and pinch, then tear the grass once it’s in their mouth, where horses do have front upper ...

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