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There is no Christmas Like a home Christmas For that’s the time of year All roads lead home! Christmas is fast approaching. If you’re one of those people counting down you already know that there are only 12 days to go. And as we grow nearer and nearer to the holidays, I find myself thinking …

November was a busy month for us here on the farm; with hunting season, baby showers and getting ready for the winter months. Now we find ourselves in December, and I am wondering where this year has gone?! I guess 2016 has just flown right by us. Winter has arrived for the long haul. There …

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” – Aldo Leopold   If you had asked me ten years ago about my views on hunting, you’d have gotten an answer much different than one you would receive today. I would have told you about how barbaric I thought it was. …

I find that life here on the farm never has a dull moment. That when we opened up our home and our hearts and welcomed animals onto our property, we invited with them all kind of trials and tribulations. I am constantly learning. And while it always seems to go that the lessons you learn …

“November is the pearl-grey month, the changeling between warm crimson October and cold white December; the month when the leaves fall in slow drifting whirls and the shapes of the trees are revealed. When the earth imperceptibly wakes and stretches her bare limbs and displays her stubborn unconquerable strength before she settles uneasily into winter. November is secret and silent.” –Alison Uttley October came and went, bringing with …

literally “window-weather” – the type of weather that is best appreciated indoors.       Icelandic Today has started off as a day to hide indoors with a wood fire blazing, a hot coffee in hand and a new blog post to be written. We awoke to an ice fog with freezing rain soon to …

“Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.” – John Galsworthy I had always wanted a dog. I had friends who had dogs, and we had family who had dogs and we had neighbours …

We find ourselves already in the middle of September, wrapped up in the turning of the seasons and the beginnings of the Autumn season. We find ourselves in the midst of harvest, garden clean up, canning and preparing for the inevitable winter months that will follow. Our garden has suffered from the hands of frost …

It was a busy week here at the Farm, as we had my Mom and Dad visiting us for ten days from Ontario. Time always seems to go by too quickly, but we made some great memories and had some great adventures with them while they were here. We started the week out with farm …

Things on the farm are a buzzin. We find ourselves already part way through the month of August and Summer is in full swing. From the gardens, to chicken coops and the pig pen in between, life hasn’t been better here at the Burch Ranch. Garden: After what has seemed like months upon months of …