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Jul 30 2018 
Kawartha Farm Fest 2018
Three Forks Farm is happy to announce that we’ll be part of Kawartha Farm Fest 2018 this year. Our pasture-raised pigs and turkeys will be featured as part of the tour. Enjoy walking tours of the farm grounds and a description of how and why we have chosen to raise our animals on pasture.
On our […]
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Apr 19 2018 
Identifying the Season: A Farmer’s Musings
Its spring right?! I think so, the month and calendar tell me so but what my window shows me is less convincing. It seems to be harder and harder to define the lines between seasons. With a cold start to winter followed by above average and lengthy thaws in January and February coupled with a […]
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Sep 25 2017 
Graduation Goggles
Sweet success…the ultimate dream…the thing we strive for day after day. But what exactly is success? Who determines it, and why does it always seem out of reach? When we are in the thick of our season at Three Forks, it is often hard to view things as a success when they appear to come […]
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Apr 24 2017 
The Downfall of Multitasking
As a farmer and mother of two young children, multitasking is a mix of survival and success. Even if I were not trying to manage a seasonal farm, all households require a certain element of multitasking to ensure that everyone and everything keeps moving along. The problem with multitasking is when the number of tasks […]
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Dec 10 2016 As the Seasons Change
It has been a while since anyone has heard from us at the farm. This is our slow, less showy season, where tasks become inside ones. Days are filled with book work to tally up last season expenses and sales, phone calls for pricing, filling out applications and mapping out what next summers expansion is […]
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Jul 21 2016 
The Art of Training Pigs
Our venture with pigs started small, three pigs small to be exact, and it was a shared venture with some good friends who enjoyed good food. Pork was never a staple in our home, simply because we tried to access local meats. Since we had been living in the north that meant bison, moose and […]
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Jul 03 2016 
Why Farming?
A good day on the farm opens and closes with long shadows, pale sunbeams and whispering winds. Romantic right?
Who wouldn’t jump at the chance to observe every small step spring takes towards summer and then relish in watching it close out into fall, all the while enjoying the fruits of the season’s labour. Couple these […]
Elecia Chinnick
