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Monday, November 30, 2009

Gleaner Combines

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I continue to get a lot of comments and e-mails about my 1967 Gleaner C2 combine. I love this combine. It has a lot of features that were no...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Verified Beef? WTH?

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I just noticed one of those google ads that pop up under my posts from time to time. It reads "Alberta Beef Producers...Is your cattle ...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Winter "Pasturing"

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Here is a little explanation of what we do with our critters in the winter. In the past we have fed our animals close to the house where it ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Prairie Mill Bread

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The second week of November Prairie Mill Bread Co . recently held a promotion at Planet Organic in Edmonton. Buy one loaf and get one free!...

Ebey Farm Blog...a new favorite

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Bruce King writes almost daily on his findings in running a small farm in the northwest U.S. on his blog ebeyfarm . Bruce has a technical ba...

Pasture Based Pigs

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The following is the unedited version of an article I wrote in Small Farm Canada magazine back in 2006. There is some debate ongoing about ...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Cost of Organic Food

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I feel like ranting a little. As often happens I have talked to people recently who dont know that I am an organic farmer. I almost always...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Finished Combining...Finally

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Good grief...what a year. Yesterday I went to the field where I still have swaths laying. It is a difficult property that I just picked up t...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Harvest is over?

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Well, what a year. I know that everyone laughs when farmers complain about the weather, but come on! This spring was so incredibly dry that ...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Hand Powered Flour Mills

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I received an e-mail today from a nice fellow asking where he could obtain a hand-powered grain mill. I knew that they were still being prod...
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Alberta BioDiesel!

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I recently came across this site www.greenwayfuels.ca and was delighted to learn that biodiesel is now available in Alberta! I was attracte...

Alberta Organic Producers Association

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I attended the AOPA AGM this past weekend. http://www.albertaorganicproducers.org/ AOPA is a wonderful organization that is tight-knit and f...
Thursday, March 05, 2009

Obtaining Local Organic Foods

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I receive e-mails and phone calls all the time from people looking for local organic grains and grain products. I have attended recent meet...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Heritage Wheats

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I have recently obtained samples of several varieties of heritage wheat. What is Heritage Wheat you may ask? Well, that is a good question a...
Monday, March 02, 2009

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Friday, January 30, 2009

Buckwheat in the Organic Rotation

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I was thoroughly impressed with how well the Buckwheat performed with regards to weed supression in the field. One field that I have been fa...
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Organic Buckwheat

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I thought I would take the time to produce a few posts to do with Buckwheat. This is a relatively new crop for us. I have been researching i...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Swather

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Here is Gold Forest's swather. At least this is one of the swathers we own. The other is a larger Versatile 18' pull-type swather th...
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Buckwheat Harvest

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I thought I would post another video. This one from the cab of the Allis Chalmers CII combine. Sorry it is a little dark. It lightens up lat...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

A ride in the 503

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This will give you an idea of what it's like inside the cab of the 503. I had put in a new governor spring that morning and the rpms wer...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Harvest Action

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Here we are hard at work in the middle of harvest, towards the end of September. We had tremendous weather all fall long. However, that does...

New Customers!

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We are very proud to be suppliers of organic grains for Prairie Mill Bread Co. This family run bakery is located in the northwest part of Ca...

Buckwheat Harvest

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As this was our first year of producing buckwheat, we had certain questions throughout the growing season. With a little research and some h...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Field of Buckwheat

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This is our small field of buckwheat...an experiment for us. I have never grown buckwheat before and there are very few in our region who do...