{"id":31,"date":"2016-01-14T15:37:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volkening.ca\/site\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2024-02-09T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T13:42:51","slug":"the-farm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/volkening.ca\/site\/","title":{"rendered":"The Volkening Farmstead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Volkening Farm:\u00a0 We had originally purchased 50 acres where we have a maple wood stand for syrup, and then as we were planning to build another 100 acre spot came up for sale down the road.\u00a0 We then officially founded our farmstead sometime around 2003 moving out to the 100 acres that felt like the middle of nowhere west of London, Ontario.\u00a0 We built a large red barn.\u00a0 Definitely one of the best things we have done out here, building that barn.\u00a0 We got 2 Clydesdales, Ted and Molly-a dream for Kathy’s entire life.\u00a0 We also got mice in the house as soon as our old cats passed away, so we got new cats.\u00a0 In the while that we’ve lived here we’ve had 3 awesome dogs come and go (Skeet, Isha and Tango), one of the Clydes is gone (Ted) and the 2 original cats also have crossed the rainbow bridge.\u00a0 Now we have 2 dogs-a yellow lab (Sally) that joined our family a few years ago, and a mix mutt (Toby) that was dumped by someone out here! We found him starving and riddled with ticks in our field last year. He is fitting in wonderfully.\u00a0 There are MANY cats that come and go but 3 are mainstays (Rose, Oreo and Peggy) and are growing ancient!\u00a0 We have chickens for eating bugs and providing eggs, we raise our own and freezer camp the extra cockerels.\u00a0 We have a couple of very ancient turkeys, named Christmas and Easter, that were just never realized for dinner.\u00a0 A dive into muscovy ducks thanks to a friend has resulted in more ducks than we thought possible, and the realization that muscovy tastes amazing! They are the ultimate in renewable resource, 1 duck disappears and comes back in 35 days with 40+ ducklings in tow!\u00a0 Repeat this with every one of 6 hens, and well, ducks are infinitely renewable.\u00a0 We grow our own vegetables, have fruit trees on the go (apples, pears, plums, chums, mulberry, sea buckthorne, haskaps, sour cherries, cherries and plumcots).\u00a0 We also have honeybees, honey, comb honey and wax.\u00a0 We are avid outdoors people, and try to live off the land as much as we can!\u00a0 Our latest projects are raising native carolinian trees to plant along the field to prevent ongoing erosion, some cash crop-crop sharing and raising honey bees.\u00a0 We also sometimes make maple syrup.\u00a0 This year we are offering farm gate sales of bees, honey, comb honey, and wax for sale.\u00a0 Sometimes we have farmgate items like eggs, chicks, ready to lay pullets and there are pretty much always extra roosters\/cockerels.\u00a0 Please contact us for more information!<\/p>\n

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Volkening Farm:\u00a0 We had originally purchased 50 acres where we have a maple wood stand for syrup, and then as we were planning to build another 100 acre spot came up for sale down the road.\u00a0 We then officially founded our farmstead sometime around 2003 moving out to the 100 acres that felt like the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volkening.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volkening.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volkening.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volkening.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volkening.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/volkening.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/volkening.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volkening.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}