Lessons from the Wool Mill's Draw Frame
I took a break from our camp sock yarn this week to clean up some off-white Suri alpaca floor sweeps from a shearing. (Yes, I know most...
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Gwen
Mar 135 min read
Growing Clean Wool Fleece: Part 2 Coating Sheep
If you follow us on social media, you may have noticed that some of our sheep are wearing coats at this time of year. We coat our sheep...
Gwen
Mar 63 min read
Growing Clean Wool Fleece: Part 1
A current growing pain we have is how to economically keep the sheep’s fleece as clean as possible. Unfortunately, the nature of wool...
Beverly
Feb 144 min read
“Don’t Let the Old Man In”
Toby Keith passed away last week. If his name doesn’t ring a bell, he was a country artist that Bryan and I listened to especially in the...
Gwen
Jan 102 min read
What is Tallow?
Welcome to the first of four posts in a series about tallow. Tallow is a type of rendered animal fat that is obtained from the fatty...
Gwen
Aug 30, 20233 min read
Sheep aren't dogs. Thank goodness.
When I first started working with sheep, I assumed that over time we would develop some sort of “relationship”. Even at the beginning of...
Bryan
Feb 15, 20235 min read
Thunder Bay is not close to Cookstown: A Shipping Sheep Disaster
I think we have mentioned in earlier blogs that I had bought some additional sheep – four rams and five ewe lambs for breeding. They were...
Gwen
Feb 8, 20233 min read
Tallow soap, anyone?
It’s funny how life works. A few months ago, I was not thinking about making soap. Although I have made soap before, it hadn’t even...
Gwen
Jan 4, 20232 min read
Celebrating 2022
Like most people, I tend to focus on what is not going well or what we didn’t get to, but before we swap out the calendar, I wanted to...
Beverly
Oct 26, 20223 min read
The Learning Curve
So, the other day I was scrolling through Instagram reels to get a few laughs. I stumbled on one talking about the construction of a...
Gwen
Oct 5, 20223 min read
New Farmers in a New Town
Back a few months ago when the #tbayinseason folks came out to interview us for their website, we somehow landed on the topic of how we...
Beverly
Aug 31, 20223 min read
Getting into Growing Garlic
My journey to growing garlic started with the passion of one man: Ted Maczka, of Fish Lack in Prince Edward County, Ontario. He was a...
Beverly
Jun 29, 20223 min read
My (reluctant) Return to Natural Dye
A few weekends ago my daughter and I attended a dye shop training hosted by the Range Fiber Art Guild in Cotton, Minnesota, which is just...
Beverly
Jun 1, 20222 min read
My Next Fibre Adventure
I’m so looking forward to the next fibre adventure in my life. As a teenager I primarily designed and sewed clothing as my creative...
Gwen
May 9, 20222 min read
A Collection of "Firsts"!
This is the very first blog post for Borderlands Farm, so I decided to write it about “firsts”. This past month we had our first lamb...
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