Welcome to our farm. I’m Hannah, and I love it here and hope you will as well.
I grew up on this farm with my parents and 4 older sisters and now have moved back in with my husband and one year old daughter.

Growing up we always had sheep in the barn, a few barn cats wandering around and a couple of dogs. With both my parents working full time, raising 5 girls and managing a grain farm as well the barn was always kept as simple as possible - only sheep, sell them to the market and do the same again next year.

It was simple, it was a consistent and it’s was sparked my love for the sheep and my love for caring for animals.

Fast forward to Christmas of 2012 (me a fresh 17) - presents were just about done and a song started playing “Cows around” by Corb Lund, and instantly I knew. I threw on my boots, and ran out to the barn in my Christmas jammies and whatever coat was closest and there they stood.

Two beautiful, shaggy, adorable Highland cows. Charlotte and Olivia. They were about 9 months old and are still around today in 2025 as the matriarchs of our cow herd.

That winter I would go out every single day and sit with them to try to get them used to me. We had never had cows before so this was an exciting new venture for me and our farm. I would sit in their pen and read my book aloud to them. Charlotte and Olivia might be the only cows on earth who have heard the entire first game of thrones book read aloud to them (fun fact about me I love fantasy but in my hear Lord of the Rings will always be number one).

Time goes on, I went away to University in the fall and for the next four years would step in and out of my life on the farm as only a noncommittal late teens early twenties girl could do. But I always felt at peace when coming home to visit the sheep and cows.

When my time at school was done - again like most early twenties people who receive and indescript degree from University I moved back home. Unsure. Unsure of what my next steps would look like but sure I loved living back at home. Around my sisters, around my nieces and and nephews and of course around our farm.

I started being a little more hands-on on the farm, helping my dad more with the sheep and our growing cattle herd. That fall of 2017 I, again like any fresh out of school grad took the first job I could find.

Working at a grain elevator. Now I have lived on a farm my entire life in rural Ontario, and still even I had no idea what a grain elevator was. So if you don’t either that is totally fine but perhaps an explanation for another time.

As my career in agriculture, I began having a greater appreciation for the industry around me than ever before. I learned so much from the farmers I work with and only gained appreciation for our family farm.

Soon I had taken on full responsibility for our livestock herd and when my then boyfriend (now husband) moved up to live with me near the farm through COIVID in 2020 his appreciation started growing too.

By fall of 2020 we were engaged and purchased our first home about 15 minutes from our home farm where my sister was living with her family and we would go every day, twice a day (or more) to do our chores.

Weddings (yes two and again a story for perhaps another time) and our first child later by June of 2024 we were officially moved back to the farm I grew up on to raise our daughter on a farm I held so dear.

Now being here every day, I have more love for the farm than ever before. Seeing my daughter explore and enjoy her life here is the more incredible than I could have imagined.

And that’s the story, the abridged version (although unfortunately nothing I say is ever terrible abridged) of how I ended up here on our home farm with my little family. I look forward to sharing more about our life here with you and take you with us as we attempt to make our little farm dreams come true.

how did I end up on the farm....