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Predicting the weather is not an easy feat, even today, with all the technology meteorologists use, weather prediction is far from perfect. Climate Change is making it even more difficult to predict the ever changing weather patterns. This method is an interesting and unusual way to try to predict the weather for the coming year...Amish Style.   The Amish Weather Prediction model suggests that the weather on each of the 12 days of Christmas (starting on December 26th and ending on January 6th) represents the weather for each month of the coming year. According to the Amish, if the weather...

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...