Spring has FINALLY come and with it’s arrival several things are happening here on the farm. For starters the hens are back on the lay and we are flush with eggs. Today is also baby chick day 🙂 . I will be heading into town shortly to pickup our first batch of meat birds for
I, well WE didn’t get into farming to make money, we started farming because it just tastes better. We started with the idea that we would raise chickens for meat and eggs, just for us and we would sell any excess. That didn’t last very long because quite honestly we have awesome people in our
As I sit here on the couch drinking a coffee and listening to the blizzard roaring outside I am very thankful for yesterday. What happened yesterday you ask? Well we bought yet another piece of equipment that I said I would never want/buy/have ?. We bought a New Holland 479 haybine. Last hay season I
Just like the rest of southern Ontario we got crushed with freezing cold weather the past week, although today is 6C and raining, go figure. We had the joy of losing power for almost 5 hours, pipes freeze to the only bathroom in the house, getting an avalanche of compacted snow/ice blocking the only man
The Orange pi that I built and installed in the chicken coop to control the light is having some problems. Now why do you need to have the light in the hen house computer controlled Mike, isn’t that overkill? First off, let me have my fun. Second off, chickens need three things to generate an
Things change and things stay the same. I got the Polaris ATV all put back together and running GREAT, so it was time to sell it LOL! I really enjoyed having that bike it was a real god send here on the farm. I never really realized how much I would use it until I
Anyone that has been out to the farm or that knows me at all knows that I love to do things with Arduinos and Single Board Computers. As a good friend has said on many an occasion I am the only person that he knows that is actually making and deploying real IoTs. Now, while
As you may have noticed we have a new website! I have needed to do a redesign for….well…years to be honest. I needed to give the page a more streamlined look and feel and generally clean up. I have done tonnes of work behind the scenes trying to get things organized so that I can
This is an example of when things go snap it generally isn’t a good thing. All that ripping and tearing to get to this little part. Now it is time for the good news, bad news time of this little post. Good news is that now that I have the transmission out of the bike
As a good friend of mine would say “This looks like a job for 3D printing!”. I recently acquired a bandsaw from my father and in all the confusion and commotion I seem to have either forgotten to package up the knockout for the blade or I simply lost it. To be honest I am