new farmer

Historic Hen / Brooder Houses Shed-Style Roof (esp. 1930’s & 1940's)

There’s a certain style of brooder/hen house that I’d like to build, with a single shed-style roof, so that the back wall is shorter than the front. Here are a collection of similar examples for reference.

Pig Feed Ingredients List (La Coop Federee) — 140 Series

Wanted to post publicly the response I got regarding the pig/swine/hog feed ingredients from La Coop Federee in Quebec:

For the swine feed you are using (“140” series), we have the same constraints as in…

Willow (Saule) Sources in Quebec

Also looking to get started with some rapid-growing willow (saule in French) to create living fences/hedges/fedges as wind-breaks and for the production of biomass (to be fed through a wood chipper and applied on top of the soil in the garden).

Asking Questions

Getting set up in a new country has given me a much greater appreciation for seeing “how things work”. When you emigrate intentionally to a new place, there results a maybe more conscious effort on your part to fit into how things work.