Ancestors played influential role in farm family’s history
Finding ancestors helped provide family with peace.
The melancholy of my family’s home farm
The house built by columnist Judie Sutherland's ancestor, Samuel Young, seemed to have a sense of story, if a house is capable of holding such a thing. But it wasn't always a happy story.
Enduring one catastrophe after another
Part five: Things got even worse, before they got better.
Surviving the threat of catastrophe
This neighbor came face-to-face with the robbers and complained that they were taking all of his money.
Treasured farm ripped from family
Samuel Young was 40 years old in 1883 when he tackled the arduous task of building an enormous, Victorian-style home.
For the settlers, nothing came easy
In the 1800s, starting a homestead took a lot of work and commitment.
Love of land runs deep at family farms
When you grow up on a farm, you have a connection to the land like no one else.
Doris, the Queen Mother of the flock
Doris the Dorset has earned herself a new name, and she just keeps teaching us all sorts of things whether we want to learn it or not.
It’s not Easter without those eggs
Of all the farm animals we had over the years, chickens never made the roster.
Get out the mops and elbow grease, mud season is here once again
One very spry lady once unknowingly taught me where the term “dirt poor” originated.
