Merry Christmas and Happy new years

It sure likes animals are ready for christmas
all the best to you all in 2011

Merry Christmas

Our Christmas dinner and Party will be tomorrow in the afternoon.
Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, brussel sprouts etc Pumpkin and apple pie for dessert
We're going to have a jolly good time!

Molly the donkey and Gouda, Blue the goats are especially found of the animal care taker so she
always brings a special treat before the holidays.

Winter is here

Winter arrived early last week with snow on Thursday
A tree representing Providence Farm was decorated downtown Duncan
and was designed for the birds, ( They were hungry) and yes, they made a Mess!
So what were the decorations?
pine cones with suet and bird seed and hug on the branches with beautiful red, green and white ribbon. Dark green bows were also placed on the tree.


it looks like molly the donkey is ready for Christmas

Halloween and fall is here

This Friday We are having a Halloween Party and eveyone will dress up.





We are having nice fall weather and the leaves are falling off the trees.







Happy Halloween Everyone

Halloween Party

We are haveing a Halloween Party on Friday Octobert 29th and Everyone will be Dressing up for the party





We are in the process of making a new barn door( new and improved )this door will be easier to use because it will be a sliding door.








Molly the donkey is really enjoying the fall weather and likes the sunny days

Fall is here now

Working at Providence Farm this mouth has been "Picturesque"

The colours of Fall are Orange, Reds and Yellow's the leaves are starting to fall

Which means 'raking', .... a lot of raking.

It's a beautiful time of year.

we have a new outdoor bead and pizza oven

We have a new outdooor bread and Pizza oven and it sits just outside the kitchen and it looks really nice.

The sheeps really like going down the field and they are

enjoying the nice sunshine.

we said farewell to Alapcas

We said Farewell to the Alapcas on the 17th of September, they have gone to a good home, and last week on 24th four of our sheep,Dora, Rosie Poesy, Blackie, Marilyn Monroe went to Hope Farm.

We are composting old plants, cleaning out pots, and storing them in the pot shed.

Recently we received an outdoor bread/ Pizza oven and sits just outside the kitchen on brand new cement where the old alterate school use to be

molly the donkey

Our donkey Molly is really lonley and she needs a new friend female donkey



to make her smile again








The Goats Goada and Blue are both doing good and they
really enjoy being with each other in the sun .





and looking forword to the fall coming soon
when the leaves changeing.

we got new chickens

We got some new chickens last Tuesday and they are so cute.

and they are all doing well and growing everyday

They are seperated from our mature chickens to keep them

safe until they are big enough to defend themselves

Our first Rain fall

On Aug 31st We had Our first cool rainy day. And the Berry Queen was out in the fields picking

Black berries for a market order she is so dedicated!

Great Job

the Alpaca are going to a new home

It is offical the Alpaca's are leaving Providence Farm.

Their personalities have been colourful!

Farm Photos of the Alpaca 's have been populor, they seem to be the first cards sold

These 'fellows' have entertained us in many ways and we'll miss them

Farewell to Chilli ,Jet, Bruno and Sarg

our goats blue and goada

Our Goats Blue and Goada really are both enjoying the nice sunny weather.

Goada likes getting his coat brushed and Blue the female goat likes getting her coat brushed too.

We have a farm cat named Blackie and he likes coming into the greenhouse to have his cat food and water, nap in a tray.

the animals are doing good

The animals are all doing well and the sheep go down to the feild
and Molly the donkey is very lonley and she needs a friend.

The alpacas really like the sun.

Molly our Donkey got her toe nails done on Tuesday and she was very good.

People that came to the Folk Fest had blast and we sold a lots of ice cream and bagged ice it was a hot weekend.

enjoy the nice sunny day

Folk Fest

We are very busy getting Providence Farm Beautified Because Folk Fest is this weekend!

We'll let you know how the weekend went next Wednesday Tah- Tha for now!

Alapca getting wet with the hose and sheeps in field

Our Alapca (Jet ) enjoys a water spray with the garden hose during our July Summer

Our Sheep have been gracing in the lower fields keeping the grass short for our annual Folk Fest

there will be lots of parking available

Summer is here

Finally summer is here it's a hot day of 30c.

Because of the hot weather Our plants need more water and Our animals are looking for shade.

Our farm store has provided ice water in a huge red container with lots of ice and drinking cups for everyone Sun screen and straw hats are also provided to our workers.

It takes most of the moring to wash eggs on Mondays, Our hens are producing 14 to 15doz during Saturday thorough to Monday. Yeah! we're back in business !

A funny thing happended last Friday, the sheep got loose and wondered into the rental gardens we got them out of

there just in time. whew !

We had a farewell party for our boss, it was very special and we will miss him a lot. Thanks to our Kitchen manage, the food and drink was Awesome!

Happy Canada Day!

It is starting to feel like summer yeah! Temperatures are in the warm 23 c in the Cowichan Valley


Goada the goat was enjoying his breakfast munching the apple tree leaves he must have been really hungry.


Molly the Donkey is really enjoying my friendship she likes her coat brushed and often times lays her head on my knee.

lets hope the summer stays warm!

Our Alpac's have been acting up; they seem do this once in while " Sibling Rivalry! " So ....... Molly the donkey ran one way, Gouda and Blue our goats ran the other way, and the farm animals were NOT HAPPY!

We have moved Beautiful Colourful Planters in front of the farm store although we haven't had much sunshine, the whole area shines with Colour.

The Hoedown is on Saturday many guests and our workers will be attending, it should be really good! some guests dress-up in costumes. this is an auction, dinner and dance to fund raise for

Providence Farm.

The fkowers are blooming

It seems to be a cooler month and the sunshine hasn't been around much the month of May and beginning of June. Mother Nature is still making Our flowers bloom

So we see the sunshine in the faces of Providence Farm Flowers

HOEDOWN IS JUNE 19 201O

It will be a lot of fun

This Morning as we prepared to gather chicken eggs , Our Favorite Donald duck passed away

peacefully under his favorite tree he lived for 10 years and he had a good life!

he loved eating blackberries.

Our new birds are starting to lay eggs "poulets" It shouldn't be too long before they are regular

size eggs

Our lambs little Laura, little Grace are growing so fast

lambs went to new home

We said goodbye to little Emma, little Tennille and little Ruthy lambs all went to a new home last week and Our older Sheep Shaina sheep and Faith sheep went to the 'market'

So we have 12 sheep left.

Our Rooter Luongo deid of old age and he enjoyed his time at the farm

We have been Tranplanting Eggplant, Tomatoes, HOT Peppers. Basil

Molly the donkey enjoys laughing I think she likes us!

the Alpaca hair cuts

The Alpaca's had hair cuts a week ago and do they ever look funny!

Our birds don't seem to be producing many eggs these days

not sure if its the weather? (is it too cold?) Or is it the " pecking order?"

We have beautiful flowers in our greenhouse nursery its a tropical paradise!

our lambs have gone to a new homes today

Today we said goodbye to 12 lambs 9 males and 3 feamales they are going to good homes.

and 5 females remain at the farm lttle Laura lamb, little Grace lamb, little Ruthy lamb, little Emma lamb, and little Tennille lamb.

Molly is still sad, she miss Eimor our hopes are to find another campain for her.

Our Alpaca's will have their wool sheared tomorrow morning.

This will greatly inprove their appearance

Have news to share with you, next Wednesday 11 lambs will go to a new farm to roam around,


an exchange will be made for a new ram.


We are hoping to keep little Laura lamb and little Grace lamb