Best wishes for the upcoming Christmas holidays from Nicky, Norman, Chanel, Benson and new hire Ben (Jay, our delivery guys son] also our own wonderful son and daughter Stuart and Connie who willingly jump in to cover for us as needed. We have an amazing staff who love what they do and are really appreciated by everyone.

Filming is done and I really want everyone to know how much we appreciated your support and tolerance over the last 3 months, with the 6 odd closures and the adventure of having the White House become a tv set. We will let you know it’s release date etc!

We are back to our somewhat unusual, but regular hours

Wednesday through Friday 10.30 – 4.30pm

Saturday 9 – 4.30pm

Christmas Eve we will close at 4pm and stay closed for a week, re opening at 10.30 on Friday January 2nd

Once the days lengthen in mid January we will be staying open till 5 pm again.

We will publish a 2026 calendar showing long weekend closures next year.

FINAL FILMING

CLOSED Wednesday Dec 10th for the last filming day

This is what it looks like in the shop area on a film day, Mimi always gets involved!

Open as follows

Thursday 9am – 4.30 Dec 11,

Friday 9 am – 4.30 Dec 12

Saturday 9am -4.30 Dec 13

We promise we will let everyone know when the series, “Crew Girl” comes to the screen.

This old man just showed up at our door, as he does every year…reminding us of all the fun coming up soon, so for our family Christmas, see below for our hours over the Festive Season

CHRISTMAS CLOSURE

Close 4pm Christmas Eve, Dec 24th

Dec 25th – Jan1st CLOSED completely [ no phone, no e mail ]

Reopen Friday Jan 2nd at 10.30 am

Love the fiery sunsets we get on the short winter days.

The penultimate filming takes place this Wednesday with just one more to be scheduled before the middle of December. The 8 episodes will then be complete, and we will let you know when it gets released, on Netflix we believe.

FILMING WEEK Dec 1st -7th Closure

WEDNESDAY DEC 3 CLOSED

Thurs Dec 4th OPEN 9 – 4.30

Friday Dec 5th OPEN 9 – 4.30

Saturday Dec 6th OPEN 9 – 4.30

With Christmas around the corner and unexpected winter weather always a possibility, we recommend having a weeks worth of feed, hay and bedding as a buffer just in case.

The floods of 2021 that took out transportation routes across the island and BC showed us the benefits of being prepared.

No, the car didn’t come to pick up a bag of feed and a bale of hay, but you can see how full the yard gets on a filming day. No room to swing a cat as they say. Actually Mimi, the kitten is very popular with most of the folk that take over the farm, she loves all the action and is frequently found showing off and visiting all her new found friends!

SCHEDULE FOR NEXT WEEK

Wednesday Nov 26th CLOSED

Thursday Nov 27th through Saturday Nov 29th OPEN 9 – 4.30

DO COWS GET DAPPLES?

Pictured here is Buttercup, who is expected to calve at the end of December

Our broodmares always bloomed when pregnant, so many dapples, I feel cows are the same!

The store sees bi weekly fluctuations in prices for the Hi Pro livestock feeds, often up but sometimes they go down! We are a stock exchange that celebrates a drop in price.

This week, Beet pulp dropped by $3.50 a bag with the 2025 crop arriving, it had climbed as supplies got shorter. We also saw less significant drops on sheep, goat and poultry feeds.

Another stock exchange so to speak was the arrival of our last 2025 lambs in boxes for our freezers.. It will be another year before that supply line gets restocked, as first we winter the ewes, then lamb in March followed by weaning in June. Harvest will be fall of 2026

So far this year, our hay supply and prices have stayed pretty steady thank goodness, as this is most livestock owners biggest yearly expense.

This Halloween themed photo of the not so white house was taken after all the film crew had gone home for the night, but before the lighting crew removed their lights.

Next filming closure of the store will likely be mid November but will post exact changes once its confirmed.

In the meantime all our ewes have blue bums, so lambing will likely be a 16 day period starting at the end of February just in time for the spring grass. The ram is now sporting a red marker in case someone didn’t catch first time around.

If anyone would like to buy lamb, by the piece, 1/2 lamb or whole lamb, we have freezers filling up this week. The beef has almost all gone, just a few roasts, ground and stewing beef until the next harvest which will be going in the freezers in the New Year.

Why is the Ewe Blue? Answer at the bottom of this post.

Meanwhile the next filming day is Wednesday October 15th.

We have changed our hours to accommodate customers needs and help manage the inconvenience.

Normal hours Wed – Friday October 8 – 10 10.30am – 5pm

Thanksgiving Weekend

Saturday October 11th OPEN 9am – 5pm

Wed Oct 15th CLOSED

Thursday Oct 16th 9am – 5pm

Friday Oct 17th 9am – 5 pm

Saturday Oct 18th 9am – 5pm

To get spring lambs we rent a ram to service our ewes. To keep track of who gets bred, and when, we use a marker on the ram, blue at the moment. After 15 days we will change colours so we catch if someone was re bred. This way we know when to start watching the ladies in the maternity stables at the end of February onwards

Our hours are back to normal, though not much around here would classify as normal..

Back to Regular hours for now, Sept 24 thru Oct 4th

10.30 – 5 Wednesday through Friday

9 – 5 Saturday

First week of participating in the TV world is drawing to a close as they undress the farm today after a very full day of action that went well into the night. What an experience we got of a world so removed from our farm life

The numbers of people involved and the expertise in so many areas of life was mind blowing. For now we can return to “normal”

Next week and likely to the end of September we will just be a farm again, before being told when the next shooting day will be (early/mid October we believe).

We have lots of gorgeous fruit available in the store that is completely spray free, with discounts given for purchases of 10lb or more