Madcap Monday -- Roll call

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From Rowangarth Farm: Modern-day home, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Animals have always played a central role in our homesteading adventure. We moved to the farm in July and by our first Christmas we were home to a motley crew of creatures including chickens, goats, donkeys, barn cats and a horse. Since then we've added more chickens, ducks, more cats and, most recently, the bees.While I'm thinking about raising a couple of heritage breed pigs this year and one Read more

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Simpler Living Column -- A year in review

From Rowangarth Farm: Modern-day home, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

"A year ago this month, I wrote my first Simpler Living column. In it, I described how we'd moved from a semi in suburbia to a 71-acre farm in a small village in eastern Ontario.Our dream was to slow down and get away from the hectic pace of life we found ourselves in. Truth be told, during that first year, we only managed to exchange one kind of hectic for another...."To read more, please go Read more

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Our midnight surprise

From Rowangarth Farm: Modern-day home, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Lucy and her triplets - two boys and a girl! Read more

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Morning barn madness

From Rowangarth Farm: Modern-day home, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Farmers are early risers for a good reason.There's lots to do, especially when you've got animals.Thankfully, many hands make light work and the kids have taken to helping me with the barn chores (they actually look forward to the visit -- most mornings.)So here's a peek at our post-breakfast routine:1.) Feed equines. Gallagher first, donkeys next.Yes, Gall is our biggest animal but feeding him Read more

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Think she's trying to tell me something'

From Rowangarth Farm: Modern-day home, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

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Do donkeys dream'

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And if they do, what about' Read more

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Veggie garden update: July

From Rowangarth Farm: Modern-day home, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

To say it's been a weird and wacky summer weather-wise is something of an understatement. I'm loving the absence of sizzling heat waves and stifling sleep-inducing humidity. But my veggie garden isn't, and mine isn't the only one.I've been following the blogs of my cyber friends in Minnesota, Chicken Mama and Mama Pea, among others, and vegetables everywhere are suffering the same fate -- all Read more

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What's in a name'

From Rowangarth Farm: Modern-day home, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

From Flower Fairies of the Autumn, by Cicely Mary Barker Click photo to enlargeEvery farm needs a name and we started thinking of one shortly after the ?sold' sign went up.We knew some locals referred to our place as ?the old Dunn farm,? after the former owners who lived there for 30 years and sold to the people we bought from. But we wanted to give it a new identity for the next 30 years.We Read more

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First of the season

From Rowangarth Farm: Modern-day home, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Fresh in-season berries don't last long at my house.As we put in some strawberry plants only this year (and my daughter picked them clean of ripe fruit before they even went into the ground) we've been buying pints direct from local farmers.But we do have a mature raspberry bush -- albeit a small one -- behind our house and I've been keeping an eye on it from my kitchen window. Just this morning Read more

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Simpler Living column: Raising kids on the lean and green

From Rowangarth Farm: Modern-day home, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

While I haven't been blogging lately, I have been writing my "Simpler Living" column for Bankrate Canada. Here's the latest installment on raising kids on the lean and green. "One of the reasons we moved to our farm last summer was to lead a greener, simpler life. We wanted to provide that kind of life for our children, but as most parents know, life with kids is anything but simple. It's also Read more

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With a little help from my (four legged) friends

From Rowangarth Farm: Modern-day home, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

For a long time, I've dreamed about having a vegetable garden. It would be functional and beautiful, filled with butterflies and bees, flowers and herbs and quaint homemade twig trellises, mulched paths and little touches of whimsy. Sigh.When we moved here last July, what I got was a once-loved but most-recently-neglected patch of five-foot tall pigweed.By the time we'd settled in and I got a Read more

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