The snow has only disappeared for three weeks and already our yard has gone wild. The grass needs mowing, weeds are busting out all over the place while the vegetable seeds bide their time. In the garden quack grass and I resume our battle where we left off last fall. I shovel up its long [...]

The cliché “if it bleeds it leads” is often used to describe the focus of the nightly news. People often question the focus on terrible things and wonder why we can’t report on happy events instead. I see it differently. To me the fact that bad stuff is considered news means the good and the [...]

My bees arrived yesterday after a very long trip. They started out in New Zealand before landing in Edmonton and being trucked another six hours to where I was anxiously waiting to chauffer them home. As I bounced along our country roads with 10 pounds of bees buzzing away on the backseat I couldn’t help [...]

Sunday mornings have a slow pleasant rhythm around our place.  While one of us feeds the dogs and the birds, lights the stove and makes coffee the other heads out with a pair of buckets to feed the chickens, gather eggs and throw some hay to the sheep and horses. While the chores are being [...]