The past year has been challenging at times here at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm. Though having come through it all, we are grateful to find ourselves changed for the better and now dealing from a position of strength and clarity. Last fall, after several months of running the farm shorthanded, we concluded the search for our new…
I swear that we’re not still here just for the hoody/t-shirt collection that inevitably comes with our farm’s 25th anniversary. I kid, mostly. That said, the list of things either of us has put at least 25 years into is a reasonably short one: I have been someone’s son and brother for 50 years (ta-dah!),…
I woke up yesterday morning in our bedroom here on the farm, with only the gentle chatter of our ceiling fan and the first early-morning birdsong permeating my consciousness. As I made my way to the kitchen for coffee — two hungry kitties bounding ahead of me as always in eager anticipation of their breakfast…
As I have covered before in this space, the infrastructure here on our farm means that the act of weaning crias from their dams here, when it finally does take place, is done in one move, with the youngsters leaving their dams’ side at the Arena and moving down and out of sight and ear…
I hope everyone reading this has had a safe and enjoyable Holiday season given the challenges and realities of the world as it currently stands. The most recent (and in relative terms, welcome) drama around these parts, was going from having 41″ of snow fall on 12/17, leading to what could have potentially been the…
As we commence our 24th year of operation here, there is an undeniable seasonal rhythm to the management of the farm that we have grown accustomed to. Though some things are obviously different in the autumn of 2020 — our lack of a fall show season, training the 2019 yearlings in short-sleeves on November 29th,…
