http://allsortsacre.ca Permaculture in Practice Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:44:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/11/11/look-what-we-found/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/11/11/look-what-we-found/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:10:34 +0000 jennifer http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/11/11/look-what-we-found/ For the past few days there have been two chickens hanging around at the front of the coop. Every so often one of these hens would start cackling and go back to the flock. Something told us that they were laying but could never find out where. Well, today the nest was found and it [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/11/11/look-what-we-found/feed/ 2 http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/26/in-memoriam/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/26/in-memoriam/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:16:51 +0000 jennifer http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/26/in-memoriam/ The other day was very sad. We lost our dear friend Scrufflechook. Scrufflechook was a very special chicken. She was part of our original flock of Chanteclers. There was nothing special about her until one day last fall when we noticed she was cowering in the corner of the pen, and that her neck seemed [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/26/in-memoriam/feed/ 3 http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/13/chicken-day/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/13/chicken-day/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:09:43 +0000 jennifer http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/13/chicken-day/ What a day yesterday was. Most of all lit was long. We started at 4:45am to go to our friend's old farm. He was good enough to house our ten excess roosters at his place. So off we went to get our roosters, and help catch their chickens too.In total we caught a bunch of [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/13/chicken-day/feed/ 0 http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/12/winding-down-and-ramping-up/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/12/winding-down-and-ramping-up/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:56:36 +0000 jennifer http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/12/winding-down-and-ramping-up/ Canadian Thanksgiving has come and gone. Family get togethers with lots of food and fun was had. Of course there has also been lots of work too. Mother nature gave us one last hurrah. All weekend it has been sunny, warm, and generally picture-perfect autumn weather. Tim gave the lawn one last cut and collected [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/12/winding-down-and-ramping-up/feed/ 2 http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/07/grass-fed-beef-take-care-of-themselves-and-their-calves-poor-bear/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/07/grass-fed-beef-take-care-of-themselves-and-their-calves-poor-bear/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:06:22 +0000 jennifer http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/07/grass-fed-beef-take-care-of-themselves-and-their-calves-poor-bear/ We received this e-mail about a farmer in Saskachewan. It was so great we just HAD to post it! A couple of evenings ago, Wayne went out to check the cows and saw a very strange sight and was able to photograph the event.  A black bear approached our cow herd which turned out to be [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/10/07/grass-fed-beef-take-care-of-themselves-and-their-calves-poor-bear/feed/ 0