When I don't feel like farming

Every now and then I don't feel like farming.
I happens predictably. In the depths of winter the sun goes down so early that the evening feeding falls during the blackness of night. Supper is finished, bellies are full and children are tucked in bed for the night. My natural inclination is to curl up by the fire with a good book, or wash the day away with a hot shower and crawl into bed.

When you have animals, no matter the temperature, your sickness or the darkness of winter, they need to be cared for. So without the usual enthusiasm I have for visiting my critters, I don my snow suit and head out into the cold.

Sometimes it hits you hard in the face, the first icy breath to your lungs causes an involuntary gasp. The cold burns on your bare face and creeps down your neck. The chickens eye you from their roosts under the heat lamps. All is well in the barn.



As you trudge away from the glow of the light, the darkness surrounds you. You hear the ice on your well worn path crunching, sometimes accompanied by the hoot of an owl or the eerie call of a coyote. You flick on your flash light and let your feet follow the beam. In the distance it picks up some glowing green eyes. As you approach a soft velvet nose reaches out to exchange frosty billowing breath. The crunching of the ice around you tells you that you are surrounded by 1200 lb shadows. You hear a low welcoming nicker. Suddenly your heart feels warm and full.

You creak open the hay barn and tuck a few flakes of hay under your arm. The horses jostle in the dark to be the first to eat. You pull off a mitten and tuck your hand through a fluffy winter coat and under the warmth of a mane for a good scratch. As you listen to the rhythmic chewing you suddenly notice the expanse of dark sky filled with endless stars. You feel humble, and in the darkness, so alive.



Eventually you tear yourself away from the quiet peacefulness of the night. The bright yellow glow of the house welcomes you back. As you kick off your boots you feel energized, alive and thankful. And you wonder why it was that you didn't feel like going out?

It always happens just like that. The nights I want to go out the least, are the times I am most glad that I did. Its like the darkness heightens your senses and the cold invigorates your body. I alternately dread and feel thankful for my night time chores. Sometimes its so tempting to stay where it is comfortable and warm, but its not until I get out there that I realize what I was missing out on!

Nearly a Farm no longer!

As you can see, we are finally feeling closer to being a real farm!



We are starting to produce some delicious farm products to sell and we feel like it is time we graduated from being a farm start-up blog to more of a real farm blog!

We have started this blog for people looking for wholesome and farm fresh products around Prince George, BC.



We know that not everyone has the time, land, or interest to raise their own fresh produce or home raised meat. Farming and raising animals is a wonderful life style, but it is also a huge undertaking and not everyone has the desire to get their hands dirty. Whether you can't stand the smell of manure or are a farmer at heart living in the city, we would love to be the source you can come to connect to the farm again.

For some, that may mean checking out this blog to see things growing and blossoming. For others it may mean bringing the little ones by to collect their own eggs from right under the chickens, or enjoying the fun of tossing apples out to the pigs. We would love to be a farm you can connect to and we encourage you to let us know what farm fresh products you are looking for. We love to get our hands dirty and your support is what keeps small, family farms alive!





There are huge benefits to local, organic veggies and grass fed meat. As we have learned more about commercial food production, and the horrible conditions animals are raised in, we felt strongly like that was something wanted no part in. We have come a long way since then and are blessed to have a piece of land of our own. What a wonderful feeling to raise our own animals and know exactly what has gone into them, and the wholesome and natural lives they have lived. I love to serve my family eggs with the rich golden egg yolks from chickens out on pasture, or enjoy the delicious and guilt free taste of thick cut bacon that is rich in vitamin D from hogs out rooting up pasture with the summer sun on their backs. It is a rich feeling to be able to feed my family authentic, real food as God intended it!



We have a passion for farming and we have been dreaming and working towards having a farm of our own for many years. We are now blessed to have a little piece of land to call our own and are wholeheartedly working to get it restored and producing what we love to eat. It is our desire to keep our farm small, diverse and with a emphasis on quality instead of quantity!

Please feel free to get to know us better by visiting the about us page or checking back regularly to have your own little virtual farm visit!