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Viva Las Vegas
Las Vegas was amazing. Rekindled friendships, romance. Refreshed our spirits. Truly a spectacular adventure, too many fantastics to list. I’d just be downright bragging if I even started. Thanks...
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Plunking Away
Winter hasn’t clamped down on us yet, we may actually get a green Christmas. I know we are supposed to be upset about warming weather, but when some years treat you to a full five months of 5 months...
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Whole World
Chewing over resolutions. Mine usually involve fresh determination to keep our books in good order, nagging less, making new cheese. These resolutions are light, and self effacing. Life, land,...
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3 Bags Full
Last January was rocky, and regularly unpleasant. The start of 2012, by comparison has been as light and easy as the fluffy sheep who are my temporary charges. Our family has taken up with the...
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Chookin
Last summer, the dog ate two of our chickens (and then the dog found a new home). We didn’t replace them because we weren’t sure if we were coming or going. So now we’re farm sitting in Inverhuron,...
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Come Home To Roost
As some of you may know, we pasture our animals in portable, secure structures that grassfed industry types call ‘tractors’. They keep our animals on fresh grass daily, allowing them a clean and...
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On the Lam
Hey! Do me a favour. Read this link about the Canadian Food Inspection Agency slaughtering some very rare sheep with no justification. (And even a false document!) Montana & Fox are now up against...
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Anybody Home
Hi. Believe it or not, I still have the internet. In the month of May, we got connected at long last to HIGH SPEED internet. This spring also saw the opening of a sushi restaurant in the town of...
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Montreal Tattoo Convention
Scott and I will be attending the Montreal Tattoo Convention next weekend. Scott has some slots still available, so if you’re interested in getting work from him, please email him ASAP:...
View ArticleArrived Late to the Party
We’re coming up on Halloween, and we spent some time perusing websites for costumes to purchase. I would love to say that I am going to design and sew the children’s costumes this year, but let’s be...
View ArticlePersonally…
As a blogger, it doesn’t matter if you write about something as trivial as a dislike of a pop singer, or something as private as a decision to breastfeed… someone, somewhere is going to take it...
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Gone to the Goats
We have kept Nigerian Dwarf Goats for the past five years. I bought them because of their high butterfat content, because I didn’t desire a large quantity of milk, because they are cute. We have...
View ArticleSo, You Think You Can Farm
1. Be comfortable with shit. Talking about shit, smelling shit, touching shit, listening to critters shit, eating shit. Yeah, you heard me. I am not sure how it happens, but when we are raising...
View ArticleSustainability
If you had asked me a year ago, I would have told you that the power of positive thought brought me the biggest blessings of my life. And while that remains an honest answer, I am truly happy to tell...
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On meeting Joel Salatin
If I had not a line up of people behind me also waiting to converse with Joel Salatin, and if he had said to me, “Ashley, please tell me how you got here today, because I am so very interested”, this...
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This is Going to Hurt
This is going to hurt me a lot more than it’s going to hurt you. It’s the internet, and we are all here for the fantasy, I know. You might be mad at me for a while, but I have everyone’s best...
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