If you're thinking about getting chickens but still need a little convincing, (or need to convince someone else!) here is our list of 10 reasons to keep backyard chickens! I had never been that fussed on chickens - to be completely honest with you, Continue Reading
Farm
Autumn on the Farm
It has been the longest time since I did a farm post! Autumn on the farm is super exciting this year. We have autumn calves, and for the first time, actual baby chicks that we hatched ourselves, from eggs that our chickens and rooster that we also Continue Reading
July in photos
Whoops...haven't done a life update in a while! May anyone? Obviously June was taken up by our epic honeymoon adventure - more on that once I've actually looked through and sorted the hundreds of photos we took, so let's skip to July in Continue Reading
Sage & Tilly
So I'm not really sure how it happened but in the space of 6 weeks we went from having no puppies to having 2 puppies!! How lucky are we!! In case you hadn't read about it already Sage is our black lab pup and Tilly is Josh's dad's new Huntaway farm Continue Reading
Meet Sage
Guess what? We have a puppy!! This is definitely old news if you've been following for a while, but considering that the little rascal is most definitely a part of our farm family now, I think she deserves a proper introduction. So friends, meet Continue Reading
February in photos
Remember how last month I said I was going to just give you a photo update without the commentary? Ha! That ship has sailed. I just have waaaay too much to tell you guys! February was a really really exciting & fun month for us. Girls weekend, Continue Reading
January in photos
So sometimes I talk too much...(according to Josh) so with my monthly round-up posts this year I'm going to try something little different. I'm just going to give you the photos I took (which will hopefully be an incentive for me to take more Continue Reading
December Round-Up
December seems like so long ago already! I feel weird sharing pictures of Christmas...even though I've only just taken down my Christmas decorations! The weekend we went to pick up our tree feels like months ago! My lumber jack. Did I Continue Reading
November Round-Up
November aka my second favourite month of the year aka the month before things get craaaaay-zy!! We hatched babies under a real live hen! No artificial incubation - this was for real! After we had 3 hens go broody we decided it was time to put Continue Reading
October Round-Up
October was such a busy little month here! #1 - The All Blacks won the Rugby World Cup!! (Technically that happened here on November 1st but the actual game was in the UK on October 31st so we will run with that!) Go All Blacks! We made this epic Continue Reading
September Round Up
September FLEW by! I felt like we were really busy but when I went back and looked at my photos for the month I'm not sure we were. We did a lot of wedding planning....4 months to go! Band, food, flowers, new bridesmaids dresses after a slight Continue Reading
August Round Up
Winter is OVER!!! Well, officially anyway. Floods, wind blowing a gale and freezy days make me think otherwise but surely spring is on the way! We pretty much spent August getting ready for spring. Josh did some diggin'I got my butt into gear Continue Reading