Now that we’re averaging 12-13 eggs a day, we figured it was probably time to take it to the next level and start selling our surplus of eggs. Mike and the girls took the first step the other night a made up a sign to put out to let passersby know. The girls have been [...]

We finally got Grandma Kathy on our turf this past weekend. We coaxed her here to see Annie’s 4H presentation that she gave at the Toronto Farm Show on Saturday. Kathy was pleased to collect chicken eggs each morning and felt nostalgic about how our house is very similar to the one in which she [...]

A couple from church who also happen to live a few miles from us raise sheep. The girls got to experience the shearing of the wool a few weeks ago, and they learned quite a bit. Too bad we didn’t know about this sooner, or else I would have just sent Sadie over there, too. [...]

According to everyone around here last winter brought an insane amount of snow. There were about 3 weeks worth of snow days last year at the girls’ school. After dealing with all that it was assumed that this year would be much the same. The school came up with an idea of doing snow packets [...]

Surplus, that’s not a word you here too often these days. However, our hard-working chickens are providing quite a surplus of eggs for us this week. Yesterday the girls collected 7 eggs, and we’ve been getting an average of at least 4-5 each day. Our family is not going to be able to keep up [...]