January 6, 2012
· Filed under Goat Milk Soap
To help get through the dark and dreary winter months we’re starting up our popular goat milk workshops at Kricklewood Farm. The next will be a goat milk soapmaking session scheduled for Sunday January 29th. The workshop begins at 1:00 pm with an introduction to the goats and a lesson in hand milking so bring along your rubber boots! Classes are small and limited to 12. Cost is $25 and participants will leave with a bag of course related goodies. To register for this session or learn about all of our workshops, visit our workshops page.
January 4, 2012
· Filed under Chickens, Dairy Goats, Ducks, Honey Bees, Kitchen Garden, Sunflowers
It’s a blustery afternoon here in eastern Ontario and at this time it helps to focus on Spring and all the good things to come. For me, Spring is all about new life: hatching chickens and ducks, sprouting seeds and my favourite: baby goats! The baby goats should start arriving at the end of March and soon after we’ll have hens and ducks sitting on eggs too.
We have a lot planned for 2012. Our big project is (knock wood) our production of cold-pressed Sunflower Oil. There are a lot of things to sort out but we have a field ready to go in May with oil to follow in the Fall. We are sourcing an oil press and looking into all the other aspects beginning with planting and ending with ‘tastes like sunshine’ oil in a bottle.
We’re also planning to set up a couple of beehives for honey and wax production. This will be a joint effort with some friends of ours from town. We’re thinking to expand our workshop program too to include goat and chicken keeping 101. And of course we’re always thinking of new varieties of goat milk soap and new flavours of goat milk fudge. So, check back often to see what we’re up to or sign up for our email newsletter to get regular updates from Kricklewood Farm. All the best for 2012 from us to you!
