Apple Jack Creek

Living on a small holding in rural Alberta, raising kids and animals, growing stuff, creating things with fibre, and living with PTSD. See more at www.applejackcreek.com.

30 September 2008

The angels came

Today, the angels came for my Uncle Jim. The brain tumor that was found earlier in the year wasn't going to go away, although the surger...

Milk!

This morning, Sasha was in her milking stanchion eating the morning ration of hay, and I figured I should try again with the 'get used t...

29 September 2008

Dairy Cow Breakthrough

The cows are in the barn! We got the fences in place so that we can bring the cows up to the barn at night. We have them in a shared pen for...

21 September 2008

Black Gold

Remember this? Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed, Then one day he was shootin ...

More infrastructure

Some days it seems like we spend way too much money trying to do this whole farm thing. Actually, most days it seems like that. Well, I supp...

Independence Days Update

Oh my, this is a belated post. We've been too busy doing stuff to sit down and write! Planted Umm ... no. Frosts are here, it's not ...

Chicks

We had two hens go broody awhile back, and so they were put in cages to sit on their eggs undisturbed for a few weeks. A little while back,...

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