If you live in Ontario and have sheep on your farm, then i do hope you have joined your local sub zone group of the province wide system. I didn’t for the first 10 years i had sheep and boy what a amazing difference to access to information after i did.

While i am currently for the first time in over 20 years without sheep here on the farm till i can get the small pasture fencing redone sooner then later, my x-sheep are living within easy drive distance at a girlfriends farm and i saw them all fat and happy this winter, and will head over in the spring for a few things and see them again in April, i am hoping to get back offspring or grand offspring at some point to bring back to the farm in very small personal milking sheep numbers.

Still i have kept my membership up as its has that much value in terms of the email updates, the farm visits, the annual meetings and the training days and camps.

The newest newsletter arrived in the mail and with it came the most amazing book! It will be flipped over into my garden book for 2025 and my chick/ducking breeding, hatching and raising records. It is so well designed and filled with resources for big livestock farmers, small farmers and small holders.

In these times of trial, it is wonderful to see such a useful in hand filled with positivity! If local, reach out, you will not be disappointed. If you are from other provinces in canada, what is yours like?

And if you are outside Canada, does your county have programs, your state, do you have regular day long experts come in for seminars, hands on sheering days, farm visits to see how other do things?