Green Pastures Farm
Hi, my name is Leah Bouchard and my husband and I operate Green Pastures Farm located in southeastern Manitoba.
Farming has been in both of our families for many generations and our farm is the farm that I grew up on. It was and is originally a turkey farm. We have added in a flock of 150 ewes as a way to regenerate the pastures and increase fertility of the land we manage.
When we got our current flock of sheep about fifteen years ago, I was drawn into using the wool. Wool blankets have been used in my family for generations - both my grandmothers stitched them by hand, and it was a skill passed down from generation to generation. I hand-stitched my first wool blanket in my grandma’s basement fifteen years ago and haven’t looked back. Now we make use about half of the wool our sheep produce in wool comforters that we sell locally through our website.
We are passionate about keeping old fashioned skills alive – not just hand stitching wool blankets, but we do a lot of food-related projects on our farm – from gardening and canning, to butchering, making sausage, crafting wines, breads, and foraging wild plants; we even milk some of our sheep and make cheese from the milk for our family.
Educating others and sharing skills and wisdom of the past are part of our farm values and in the last years, we’ve been adding that component into our farm business. We love hosting school groups, families, and in 2023, we launched an agri-tourism experience, called ‘Farm, Fibre, Food & Friends,’ where we welcome small groups of guests to the farm and they have the opportunity to experience some of our family traditions - creating a woolen quilt from start to finish, as well as enjoying delicious farm to table food.
For more information on our farm, check out our website, and follow our social media.