These ginger molasses cookies are one of our favourite cookies. They have a wonderful chewy texture, a large part thanks to the extra baking soda, with the sweet richness from the black strap molasses and spices results in me having to hide the cookie jar so they last more than a day. For 2021, I tried rolling the cold dough…

Hello readers! My best intentions to write regularly always fall apart when life happens and I have things to write about. We have been steadily getting ready for winter, like the new goat waterer, secured to the fencing and ready to have the floating water de-icer added when the time comes. For this winter, it’ll be kept full by hauling…

It has been a whirlwind summer. The garden went in, with many lessons learned through the whole season. In early July, we got enough of the fencing done to put goats in. In mid July, we purchased 8 Boer does and brought them home. We learned about goat bloat, parasites, deworming, and stress induced illness pretty early on. As well…

Update: Mostly back to normal, thank goodness! Our website hosting company reports that they’ve had some success restoring data off our damaged server, so I am going to hold off re-adding more recipes and posts to see if we can’t just revert back all in one go, when they are finished. Fingers crossed! If you did a google search and…

This is just a short note to let our readers know that the hosting company that this website is on, failed to do proper backups, so when a disgruntled third party attacked many of their servers, a whole lot of websites were lost, many completely and permanently. We are afraid owlcreek.ca might be one of them. We do have a…

Prior to physically owning goats, we were somewhat, sort-of, mentally prepared for the idea that goats are easily stressed, and that they react poorly to stress, often by falling ill. We brought the does home on July 15, and most transitioned well, just had a few quiet days then perked up and went about their goat business. Bean (so named…