My thoughts went back in time as I was reflecting on a topic for this week.
I write this early in the morning when I am fresh. My thoughts are more clear.
A few weeks back the Applied Sustainable Ranching class had its weekly focus on looking at what a good farming business would do.
Last week in this column I said I would write again about one of my lifetime experiences which one hoped would never end.
A few months back, a former colleague and roommate got in touch with the suggestion that a few of us should do something.
I might have titled this: “Is it worth keeping the investment in your farm or ranch?”
I know we should just relax and take the weather we are given.
We, grandma Susan and I, are truly blessed and grateful for being able to holiday with our whole family: three sons and their families.
Last week we hosted a “house concert” or as we like to say, a “ranch concert.”
I am not an expert on the topic on which I write this week: “weeds” or invasives.
In one of the first articles I wrote, I mused about the traditional role of hands-on learning in the village blacksmith shop.
Grass just grows with a little water and sunlight right? Carbohydrates are created by photosynthesis working with minerals from the soil.
Last weekend I took time out from the workaday activities on the ranch to attend the Annual Meeting of the BC Cattlemen’s Association.
Keeping up with changes in the cattle industry and preparing the next generation of ranchers are topics under discussion this weekend.
This past Wednesday was Beef Day, a day of celebration, started six or seven years ago.
Sometimes the complexity of digital technology can confound older people.
Here we are, an early spring, and some things are charging ahead and other things are more normal.
Do farmers, ranchers and gardeners talk more about the weather or about water these days?
If you read this article early enough Friday, you can make it to Elaine Froese’s seminar at Thompson Rivers University on Friday.
Recently, I wrote about some of the climate adaptation research that the government and local agricultural industry has underway.
