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/2011/08/12/goodbye-itchy/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/08/12/goodbye-itchy/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:40:10 +0000 niffer http://allsortsacre.ca/?p=1774 On August first we lost our beloved Itchy. Two weeks earlier we had Dr. Rob, come in to look at her. We started getting concerned after she was shorn. She looked too thin and too bloated to be well. Sometimes if a ewe has been stressed or drained with lambing, they can lose condition. Itchy [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/08/12/goodbye-itchy/feed/ 0 http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/27/consequence-of-an-open-gate-part-3/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/27/consequence-of-an-open-gate-part-3/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:52:52 +0000 niffer http://allsortsacre.ca/?p=1704 Yesterday I spend most of my time on tenterhooks. I thought I would wait 24hours to see if Izzy and Thomas improved. Knowing how I feel when my stomach is rebelling against the rest of my body, I thought it would be good to just watch and wait. Several times I went into the paddock [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/27/consequence-of-an-open-gate-part-3/feed/ 0 http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/26/the-consequence-of-an-open-gate-part-2/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/26/the-consequence-of-an-open-gate-part-2/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:42:43 +0000 niffer http://allsortsacre.ca/?p=1667 Well, The barn gate had already been left open so now I had to just deal with it. Dr. Swackhammer wasn't very long at all. He was going to drench them with a magnesium carbonate mixture to bring the PH levels back to normal. It had a few other constituents in it too, notably ginger [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/26/the-consequence-of-an-open-gate-part-2/feed/ 0 http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/25/the-consequence-of-an-open-gate-part-1/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/25/the-consequence-of-an-open-gate-part-1/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:56:29 +0000 niffer http://allsortsacre.ca/?p=1658 This morning started out as a normal Monday morning. Yesterday was busy with a lovely couple visiting from Kitchener who wanted to learn a bit more about permculture and see a permaculture project in action. Both Yuri and Katchea were already well versed in permaculture and had been doing work on their properties. Tim and [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/25/the-consequence-of-an-open-gate-part-1/feed/ 1 http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/24/junction-farm-fest/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/24/junction-farm-fest/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:54:18 +0000 thesquirrel http://allsortsacre.ca/?p=1638 This past Saturday, we loaded up our homemade livestock pen and our two lambs and made the trip in to Toronto for the Junction Farm Fest. Organized by Lynn of Local Food Plus, the idea was to bring a little bit of farm in to the city. We were a bit worried about how the [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2011/07/24/junction-farm-fest/feed/ 0