Monday, May 23, 2011

Did We Celebrate!













Our Celebration of Spring was a busy one. We had beautiful weather Saturday and a good number of families enjoyed the bubbles, the animals, Dairy Farmers of Canada cow Moonica, walks in our Enchanted Forest and more.


  • The animals had a wonderful time visiting with everyone and eating lots of treats. Our sheep were sheared and both the sheep and the goats had pedicures, now they're prancing.


  • New baby goats born last Tuesday are doing well. One who just liked its mom's armpit has finally found her udder and bottle feeding is not as important for it's survival.


  • Sunday and Monday with the unsettled weather offered challenges to our visitors. They were rewarded with seeing the birth of 2 sets of twin goats. One pair was born on Sunday and the other Monday. Thanks to Adam who took the pictures today, you can see some of the action.


  • Lisa at Things to do York Region came Saturday and took pictures. Check out her site for lots of info on activities happening in York Region.

Strawberries will be in about 3 weeks. We have blossoms on our plants now in Greenbank. So far it looks like it will be a good berry season.


Can someone turn off this rain?

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Sheep Shearing on Saturday

My shearer has been booked to come Saturday around 11:00am to shear our sheep as part of our Celebrate Spring event in Markham.
Looks like the weather will co operate and give us some sunshine.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Celebrate Spring Victoria Day Weekend

We just may see some sun, the forecast sounds better for Saturday than it will all week. We've been getting lots of rain so wear your boots even if it is sunny.

We've got lots of fun planned for this weekend.
This will be our first ever Celebrate Spring event and we've been planning for weeks.


  • Dairy Farmers of Canada will be visiting with Moonica for Saturday and Sunday. They've got some fun activities and you can even milk Moonica. Very realistic without the hazard of getting kicked.

  • Start thinking about clearing out your freezer to make way for the new harvest. We'll be have jam making demos throughout the weekend. Asparagus is now here, the rhubarb is coming on strong and before you know it strawberries will be here. So much to do, so little time.

  • The wind is wonderful at our farm in the spring, just great for kite flying. Our Barnyard Adventure area has no trees or overhead wires, perfect for kites.

  • Be creative and make your own bugs.

  • Celebrate the sun and plant a sunflower

  • Visit our new babies

These activities and more are available at our regular weekend admission price of $6.50+HST/person 2 yrs +.


Don't forget to sign up for our Pumpkin's Journey (details in the market)


Hope to see you this weekend.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Celebrate Mothers Day with our Moms

Hurray, the sun shone for us on opening day. We were blessed to have some triplets born Friday night just in time for the kids to visit on Saturday. A single lamb was born to another mom Friday morning, it needs some bottle feeding to help it along as mom isn't too keen on feeding him. Today we had another set of twin lambs born and mom and babies are doing fine.

Celebrate Mothers Day with our moms. Admission is free on Mother's Day to all Mom's(Grandmas to) who come accompanied by their children. Our ewes would love to see you. Maybe we'll have some newborn goats too, one nanny goat looks really ready.

See you this weekend.