This is a recipe we first tried and immediately fell in love with, back in 2008. My youngest was 2 then. He’s in the 2024 graduating class. How did that happen?? Anyway, as I sat at the computer getting my Thanksgiving Day 2023 menu prepared, I realized that this recipe badly needed an update. The instructions left out a lot… The post Prime Rib Beef Roast appeared first on Owl Creek Farm ..read more

In 2020, I wrote Part 1, about the benefits of internet and how high speed broadband internet has become necessary in today’s world of sharing videos, steaming TV shows, and instantaneous contact with everyone all over the world. Anyone in a first world city has nearly guaranteed access to fast internet via fiber lines or cell data, but the majority… The post Rural Internet Part 2 appeared first on Owl Creek Farm ..read more

My time to make soap has slowed down over the years, but we still use it every single day so when I realized we had just over a month’s worth of soap left (3 bars!!), I shoved a bunch of other “required chores” aside for a couple of weekends and made it happen! It was good to get back to… The post 2023 Soap Making (available soon!) appeared first on Owl Creek Farm ..read more

All of the productivity of a summer can seem to disappear in the blink of an eye. And we did have a mostly busy and productive summer, almost right up to the end (I think most of us consider summer over when school starts, even if it’ll be warm for a while yet). Our Rottweiler, Artemis, had to have emergency… The post Summer of Dog appeared first on Owl Creek Farm ..read more

Thank you, to the visitor who pointed out our website wasn’t working. I’d received an email a couple days ago that our “super speedy” service had exceeded bandwidth and we’d be slowed down to normal speed (so I shrugged and didn’t worry about it) … what they actually meant was that the service was turned off for the rest of… The post It’s all good appeared first on Owl Creek Farm ..read more

Thank you, to the visitor who pointed out our website wasn’t working. I’d received an email a couple days ago that our “super speedy” service had exceeded bandwidth and we’d be slowed down to normal speed (so I shrugged and didn’t worry about it) … what they actually meant was that the service was turned off for the rest of… The post It’s all good appeared first on Owl Creek Farm ..read more

A dry spring came early and with it, periods of heat that have literally set Alberta ablaze. It’s not unheard of – in early May, 7 years ago, we saw Fort McMurray (Fort Mac) go up, and in May 2011, Slave Lake lost hundreds of homes and other structures to wildfire. However, the number of fires this year has given… The post Everything’s on Fire appeared first on Owl Creek Farm ..read more

The longest night of the year is a day behind us but winter has just begun, and it came in with a bang! We’re seeing-40c (that’s also -40f, for those of you south of the border) with a -50c wind chill for multiple days, and it is making everything unhappy. My car gave up trying yesterday, even plugged in and… The post Just another day in frozen paradise appeared first on Owl Creek Farm ..read more

It’s been a long time since I added a recipe to the online cookbook! I started a new job (that I love!) in January, and time to do little extra things like post on the website has just not been available. But then! School started! The germ factory is in full swing and we are all sick. So, I get… The post Sweet & Sour Sauce appeared first on Owl Creek Farm ..read more

I need your time – just a moment of it! One of our puppies has need of a new set of hips! Because we’ve already written the story out, I’ll refrain from doing it here too, so could you watch our video and check out Calli’s fundraiser, then give it a share? A share has the ability to reach an… The post Calli needs new hips, would you share her story? appeared first on Owl Creek Farm ..read more