Three Forks Farm

All ready for Farmfest! It’s a bit windy but the sun is out and give us a bit and the grill will be hot! Didn’t buy your tickets ahead of time? No problem, you can buy a ticket at the farm and enjoy a full day of touring your local Kawartha Lakes farms!

August what?! How did it happen? Is anyone else feeling like summer was a complete time warp? We have been under continual shift here at the farm and as things ebb and flow communications have disappeared. But I’m here to let you all know we are still working our farm and producing food. We have our pasture raised pork and chicken available and are currently taking orders for fall lamb and pork orders. It’s also time to get your order in for a thanksgiving turkey! Place your order for a fresh pasture raised turkey that never disappoints. Check out our online store or message me here.

Things that live on your counter when you’re a farmer. In this season the collection of needed items is a bit random. Here is my farmer vet kit and that is a repeater injection gun for treating animals with medicine or vaccines. It’s not as scary as it looks and is a quicker and safer way for me to treat animals when they are less than happy about getting a needle. This past weekend we had another litter of piglets and it did not go so well. The short version is that I have half a litter and a sick mama Sow who worked hard for those 5 survivors. She required antibiotics and pitocin to encourage her survival and even that is never a sure thing. Babies are cute and successful farrowing is a beautiful thing but the stress of sick animals is always a grey hair and wrinkle inducing kind of situation. I am hopeful that we are on the upswing, food and water are being consumed by mama and babies are happily nursing away. But I’m not going to put my kit away just yet.