Saturday, July 14, 2018
During shearing season we are always looking for volunteers to help and Brenda came to help shear on Mother's Day. We are happy to have her join us now for our 2nd Open Barn & Country Market.
Brenda Hudson of Georgian Jewelry Creations designs and hand makes a variety of gemstone jewelry including aromatherapy jewelry. With extensive knowledge of gemstones and their metaphysical properties, and using carefully chosen top quality gemstones, Brenda creates bracelets, necklaces and accessories. read more...
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Saturday, July 14, 2018
There is nothing sweeter than honey, so we are glad to have Hunking Honey joining us again. Another true family business right here in Grey Highlands.
They have wonderful raw honey in various size containers but they also sell bee keeping equipment. If you are interested in having your own hives these are the people to talk to.
HUNKING HONEY
We are the two of the three Hunking boys. Matthew the oldest, lives in Richmond Hill working as a Funeral Director for Marshall Funeral Home. Aaron read more...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Need a yummy dessert or just a sweet treat? Be sure to check out Abbey's Sweet Treats.
Abbey Johnston has been a pastry chef in the Clearview, Collingwood area since 2002 . She has just recently started Abbey's Sweet Treats. She sells her pies, tarts, cupcakes, cookies and other sweet treats at the local Farmers markets on the weekends.
Abbey likes to use as local and fresh ingredients as she can in all of her baked goods. All her yummy desserts are made from scratch.
She even has a read more...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Our next vendor is Eco Tabs Canada - perhaps not a typical farmers market product but it is definitely something that is needed in our rural area.
Eco Tabs Canada offers a natural solution for your waste water. Everyone in rural country has a septic tank and perhaps a pond on your property. Eco Tabs boosts your septic tank and pond with natural occurring bacteria.
Our modern day lifestyle adds detergents and anti-bacterial soaps to the septic tank making it operate less efficiently. Eco Ta read more...
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Friday, July 6, 2018
Sisters Acts, Linda & Phyllis Caswell create quality crafts for all occasions. They have been quilting, sewing, knitting & crocheting beautiful handmade items for many years; they have been part of the local craft show scene since 1998.
All of their creations are handmade and include full size pieced quilts, runners, placemats, aprons, potholders, dishcloths, scrubbies, baby quilts, along with a full range of baby essentials such as bibs, burpee pads, receiving blankets. They also do custom o read more...
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Thursday, July 5, 2018
We are glad to have our friends Fred & Jan from Opa's Workshop join us again for the Open Barn & Country Market.
Fred is a 6th Generation Cabinetmaker, using a scroll saw since age 9, retired and now a hobbyist, (a very busy hobbyist) selling amazing bowls and scroll work at markets and craft shows year round.
Fred creates very unique jewelry boxes, yarn bowls, serving or just beautiful decorative hand crafted bowls. Wooden puzzles of dragons, elephants and more. All from locally sourced read more...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Today we will begin highlighting the vendors that will be at the Open Barn & Country Market. Please visit their Facebook pages to see what they have to offer.
Our first vendor: Farm Away, by the Featherstone Family was established 40 years ago. We are glad to have them join us again this year.
Farm Away embraces an old-world approach to farming. Their small herd of Old English Shorthorn cattle and gardens of rhubarb, seasonal vegetables, and wild foraged herbs, berries and flowers make up read more...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Everyone had so much fun last year we are doing it again !
We would like to invite you, your family and friends to our 2nd Annual Open Barn & Country Market on Saturday July 28th, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
You will be able to watch up close our new crias playing or just napping, we should have at least 10 crias by July 28th. Be sure to bring your camera.
We are excited to have most of the vendors from last year returning to join us as well as several new friends.
A great additio read more...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2018
I think, or at least hope we are finally done with the snow. We are behind schedule with many things this year, including setting up our shearing schedule.
We are coming into our busy season, we have alpacas that need to be halter trained, time to start shearing our alpacas and our clients alpacas. The most excitement of course is that we are expecting 19 crias this year and the first one is due on May 28th.
Most farmers bring in their harvest in the fall, for alpaca farmers spring sheari read more...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018
We were very happy to have Ayngelina Brogan of Bacon is Magic visit our ranch a few years ago. The following is an updated version of her article.
There are so many wonderful things to see and do in Grey County. We often are part of tours for Grey County Tourism.
Copy the link and paste into a browser to see what Ayngelina has to say about Kickin' Back Alpaca Ranch and some of her favourite spots in Grey County!
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ayngelina-brogan/ontarios-grey-county_b_8 read more...
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