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Locally Yours from Happiness By The Acre; March 29, 2020

Posted on March 29th, 2020
Good morning everyone, Hopefully all is well with you and yours! Here in our family we are practicing some serious social isolation. Marcus is isolating up at the farm while Sarah and the kids are isolating in the city. Hopefully these efforts, and those of everyone else practicing social distancin1 read more »

Locally Yours from Happiness By The Acre; March 22, 2020

Posted on March 22nd, 2020
Update from the Farm Another week of news and updates around the Covid-19 pandemic is filling our feeds. We hope everyone is staying healthy, calm, and safe in the midst of all these changes. In all honesty we have struggled to stay positive this last week. It has been a real challenge to inte1 read more »

Locally Yours from Happiness By The Acre; March 18, 2020

Posted on March 17th, 2020
Well, this is an exciting time... What a difference a few days makes. First off, today our new flock from Calico Farms was re-homed to our barn. They are doing fine and settling in. Only one minor injury out of the 2 hour drive, and the loading and unloading process. A small torn toenail. Pretty so1 read more »

Locally Yours from Happiness By The Acre; March 13, 2020

Posted on March 10th, 2020
More Chickens, More Markets! We are excited to announce that we are expanding our laying flock by a lot! Our friends over at Calico Farms are getting out of the egg business and we are bringing their flock on over to our farm. Starting next week their birds will be hanging out in our barn getting u1 read more »

Locally Yours from Happiness By The Acre; March 6, 2020

Posted on March 3rd, 2020
Big Changes Coming! Well as spring rushes towards us, with her usual Alberta lapses back into winter, things are starting to get moving on the farm. New laying hen chicks have been ordered and are set to arrive on April 2nd. So brace yourselves for a flood of cuteness on our socials and emails shor1 read more »

Farm Happenings for February 28, 2020

Posted on February 24th, 2020
Happy CSA Week!Friday is CSA Da! For those that haven't heard of CSA Day it is a North American wide celebration of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). It takes place every year to kick off the prime sales window for harvest box programs like ours. CSA's have been a critical part of keeping sma1 read more »

Happiness By The Acre: Weekly Customer Email for February 10th

Posted on February 10th, 2020
Happy February Everyone! This is usually the month where the farm starts to get going on planting seedlings and ordering seeds. This year is a bit different, we are not running the market garden for 2020. This is a big decision that we did not make lightly, but with our ongoing work with livestock1 read more »

Your Weekly Share Update from Happiness By The Acre

Posted on January 28th, 2020
Happy Lunar New Year!We hope everyone has enjoyed this break in the cold. I know our hens sure have, they are finally going back outside to chase about in the outdoor run. The warm weather has allowed us to clean out the first half of the winter's deep bedding in their roosting coop in the barn as1 read more »

Greetings from Happiness By The Acre

Posted on January 21st, 2020
Finally, some warm weather! The ladies are loving the chinook winds this week, and are outside chasing about in the melting snow and our Christmas Tree. It is a nice break from that cold snap, but hopefully it doesn't melt off all the snow in the fields! We need that for our dugout.We are still off1 read more »