Thought the goose eggs in with the chicken eggs suited the topic, Happy Easter everyone
We are OPEN this weekend
Good Friday 10.30 – 5 Saturday 9 -5
The last lamb arrived last Sunday, so the lambing season is successfully over and we can sleep soundly at night again.
Time to pay attention to the garden and get planting.
Lambing is going well, 1/2 way there now and the weather is cooperating allowing these babies fresh grass and warm sunshine.
As well as the tree blossoms, my daughter Constances’ presence on the farm is adding fantastic colors, everywhere I look, with her masses of flower plantings
Meanwhile my son Stuart has brought his work ethic, brains, energy and ideas into the farm store to my great relief. Norman and I are playing more of a supporting role these days. In an effort to not put all our eggs in one basket we have expanded our range of feeds by including locally owned and run Ritchie Smiths feeds, helping ensure a supply of livestock feeds from more then one source in these fast changing times.
Whatever the climate or the fuel prices throw at us, we hope to support all the local livestock in the best way we can, they don’t stop eating ever!
We also have added a range of sheep and lambing products from Alberta to complement the minerals, feed and hay we already offer for our sheep customers
Another new item is a 7’6″ deer fence in 165ft rolls for the high jumping deer out there!
From Feb 14th to Feb 28th we will give 10% off on all fencing, gates and panels to help you get all those garden and farm projects get started
We are loving the lengthening hours of daylight, especially with the younger generation living on the farm. They have the energy that we used to have ourselves, and that created this place as it is, you will start seeing some wonderful improvements and changes as time goes on.
Introducing a girl named Fred, to accompany the boy named Snowdrop… Grand kids on the naming duty
Nicky and Norman have been away for some R+R after fighting off the terrible flu going around and having a wonderful but busy Christmas time with the grandchildren officially moved in to the white house.
Our two Jersey steers are back from the butcher so we are restocked in all your favourite cuts of beef (already sold out of ground! sorry!). Born and bred on the farm, we are proud of the quality of this well loved grass-fed beef.
Of course the cycle continues and we have the first baby of the year, a hefty Jersey/Lowline cross bull calf from lovely Buttercup. Belle is due any day for calf number two!
We have also have a new rice bran in stock after many months of unavailability and it’s cheaper, not a commonly heard refrain these days!
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 3rd closure due to filming in our home for the TV series “Easton Prep” is next Friday
Here’s our hours for next week
Open WEDNESDAY 12lth 10.30 – 5
Open THURSDAY 13th 9 – 5
CLOSED FRIDAY Nov 14TH CLOSED
Open SATURDAY 15th 9 – 5
Spot the peeling wallpaper in the bottom flower picture, just part of our home decor whilst living in a TV set, until Dec 18th.
Our own drama was the newly installed greenhouse taking flight in the wind yesterday
Luckily we were able to rescue it and fasten it down to deeply buried T posts, the twisty tie downs couldn’t hold in the soft wet soil and big winds of yesterday!
What you see growing are anemones and rununculas for the spring, along with tons of bulbs and other stuff, Constance is back to growing her flowers again
An abundance of November flowers grown by her, then picked with my grand daughter and filling the dining table, I am a lucky nana!
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.
White House Stables 