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  Topsy Farms products are more fun to buy at the farm; more convenient to purchase on line. However, Topsy Farms products are available elsewhere too. Our excellent lamb is carried exclusively in Kingston by the Pig and Olive butcher store, with 2 locations in Kingston, downtown and in the west end. Aussi Al has […]

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Amherst Island has one of the largest concentrations of historic Irish dry stone walls in Canada, many over 150 years old. Skilled Irish craftsmen no longer working at the Rideau Canal wandered Eastern Ontario, seeking work. Our upcoming Irish Canadian Dry Stone Festival is designed to celebrate and to continue that good work. Our Island […]

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Our neighbours and friends had quite an adventure at Topsy Farms recently. We have about 1000 ewes and over 1200 lambs now after lambing (with one or two waddling pregnant ewes still holding back). So many mouths require lots of food, and we were running out of pasture on the home farm. Moving the mature […]

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Our four foster lambs were hungry, so I went out early, with extra formula. They are tucked into a rebuilt corner of the barn, the ‘Lambs Playpen’, deeply bedded in straw, safely protected from any predators. A family farm outing to Topsy Farms includes time to: interact with young animals and ask questions visit a […]

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Topsy Farms invites people, young and old, to help nurture orphan lambs at our farm on Amherst Island. We will have over 1000 lambs born in May and early June in the neighbouring pastures. You and your family are welcomed to watch from the road, the bonding between mama and baby. It is a joy […]

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Bedsores can be caused by poor circulation. They can be a grave problem for people who are required to sit or lie in one position for long periods of time. The suffering of someone not fully mobile can be increased by bedsores, friction irritation, chilling and sweating. There is a solution. Topsy Farms’ Canadian Medical […]

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Sleeping on wool bedding, cotton-covered, is as close to sleeping on a cloud as you’re ever likely to experience. Why does wool bedding help you sleep? cool in summer, warm in winter hypoallergenic; chemical-free natural resilience gives cushiony comfort It has such a natural resilience, that it does its own fluffing. All the fibres trap […]

There is an adventurous path that pure wool travels, from the sheeps’ backs to a knitter’s hands and needles. Many hands are involved. On shearing day at the barn, one of our Topsy farmers encourages the sheep up a ramp to the upstairs shearing area, where another farmer moves the sheep from a large pen […]