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This Wednesday marks the shortest day of the year and the longest night. It's also the first day of winter.  It's time to welcome light back into our lives. In honour of the Winter Solstice, we made some ice lanterns.  It's as easy as finding some plastic containers or tin cans, water and some natural sprigs of greenery and berries. You also need tea lights or candles. These ice lanterns are stunning and incredibly easy to make. They make beautiful table centerpieces or put them on your porch when hosting. You can easily burn them inside too, just be sure...

We weaned calves this week which always makes for a busy and intensive few days. It’s something I always drag my heels on. If you know you know. It can be stressful for the animals and humans.  Weaning involves separating the cows from their calves. You may be wondering why we do this? The reason we wean is to stop the cow from producing milk. Producing milk requires a lot of energy. Instead of the cow using her energy to produce milk for her teenage calf, we want her to reserve her energy for herself and for the calf she...

Creamed Honey is simply honey that is intentionally crystallized. It’s made with raw runny honey and finely crystallized honey. When the seed honey is slowly stirred into the runny honey all the honey crystallizes.  When I first heard about creamed honey years ago - I assumed they took cream and whipped some honey into it. But that's not true, despite the name no dairy is involved - creamed honey is completely natural honey.  You still get all the health benefits of this superfood we're just speeding up a process that naturally happens with high quality natural honey.   It all starts with a secret...

Sure we all think of honey as being a sweet treat but it's also good for us. The honey we are talking about here is raw, unpasteurized honey. This is really important to ensuring you reap all the nutritional benefits honey has to offer. Did you know that honey has been used in medicine for more than 5000 years!  It's used to treat a wide array of illnesses, ailments, and injuries because of its anti viral, anti bacterial and anti fungal properties. It can be mixed with other remedies and consumed or rubbed onto the skin. Research shows that honey is effective in...