Locals Supporting Locals

Very soon a calendar will come into circulation here in the Okanagan called Locals Supporting Locals.  It will feature many farmers from the area and it will hopefully help tie people together.  One thing that is for certain in the farming industry....we are all too busy farming to network.  We could all help each other though in many ways if we took the time, if we had the time, or if we knew that others were in the same boat.  What we could really do here for each other is to support each other.  If you want to take a look at his website I am pretty sure it can be found at ----   localssupportinglocals.com or else just google it and it should be easy to find.  We are creating a network of like minded people who can all support each other with the benefit being that everything you need is close to home.

Our two awesome dogs had a litter of 10 puppies together!  Luna is the mom and after she had 9 puppies we thought she was finished so we let her go outside for a bathroom break.  When she came back inside she had a puppy in her mouth!  They were Maremma Sheep Dog X Bernese/lab.  They were all so smart and adorable.  We found great farm homes for all of them (we were hoping that we would end up with one of the puppies but that didn't happen).

We are realizing that once again, we planted way too much!  This is our second year farming and I swear the third year is going to be the charm!  One thing that is for certain though, nothing ever goes to waste on a farm.  If we don't use it there is a list of animals to chose from here that will.  We have about a month left of farmers markets and then it is time to not sit back and plan for next year.

It's late and it has been a long day.  Our neighbor and friend passed away this week and I just want to say that we feel really good about re-homing his chickens.  He had come to us previously and he had asked us to take them.  Ray really did love his chickens, he loved them so much that he actually could not eat them.  He went to the grocery store to pick up chicken instead (who knows what he was eating there though).  Anyways, he is living on here at our farm and we cherish his birds just as he did.  He was a good man and very comical.