Topsy Farms

Topsy Farms Founded in 1972, as an organic co-operative, Topsy Farms remains committed to eco-ethical, sustainable agriculture.
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We sell a variety of 100% Canadian, soft-wool blankets and yarn. Both luxurious and affordable, these goodies will last generations! Wool blankets, yarn, wool, alpaca, hats, knitting

06/02/2026

Feeding Cedar takes courage - she is a very big critter 🐮

Fox Bite Lamb UpdateWe posted a video called Chaos Morning which included a story about picking up a lamb with a hole th...
06/02/2026

Fox Bite Lamb Update

We posted a video called Chaos Morning which included a story about picking up a lamb with a hole through its skull.

When Jake picked it up in the field, he did not think it was going to survive.

Under the guidance of Shepherd Kyle, the wound was irrigated, the lamb received a shot to help with pain and swelling.

"Swelling (pressure) inside the skull is the most likely thing to kill lambs with head bites" - Kyle

When the wound was clean and the condition stabilized, the bite was sealed with raw honey and a bit of fly repellant.

During this critical hour, the mom was SOMEHOW spotted in the field (likely due to her stress behaviour looking for the lamb).

The ewe was caught without causing stress to the rest of the flock.

She was loaded into our Tumbrel cart and brought to the barn (you can see what this looks like in yesterday's video called Peaking Prolapse).

The lamb and ewe were reunited (check out the video - last image).

That video was captured maybe 3 hours after the lamb was initially found.

You can see how shaky it still is.

Thr lamb appeared drunk - staggering and flopping over -was this because of the wound or the drugs?

Maybe a bit of both.

Mother's milk and snuggles are the best medicine of all.

It has almost been a week now.

Permit us to take a minute to close the circle on what we're doing here and how you are helping.

You who have read this far into a farmer's musings when there are so many demands on your time....

You who like, comment, and share these stories and videos.

You who tell your friends about this hippie-founded sheep farm and come for a visit to see the sheep and walk the trails.

You who choose to buy Topsy yarn for your knitting project or a wool blanket for your cousin's wedding gift.

Because of all these things we are able to give this level of care to an individual lamb while 1000 others are being born.

It would have been so easy to just do nothing.

But that is not how we are.

It's not who we are.

And if it were, you likely wouldn't be still reading...

Thank you for being part of this adventure.

Thank you for helping us to keep the farmland as a farm.

06/02/2026

The equipment takes a beating and it needs to be put back together before any work can be done.

06/01/2026

Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing at all

Snugglers ☺️There are not enough photos of Leah on this page. Apparently it takes the visit of David Francey and his won...
05/31/2026

Snugglers ☺️

There are not enough photos of Leah on this page.

Apparently it takes the visit of David Francey and his wonderful family to bring out this winning smile.

Back in 2018/19, David gave permission to use one of his songs in a Topsy video about snow plowing - this was long before TikTok made such a thing common practice.

We've considered him a 'friend of the farm' ever since.

And if you happen to have never heard one of his records or seen him perform live, we highly recommend the experience.

Last note on David's visit - there was collective squeal of joy when a group message went out to say "David Francey is here with his family" - Jake was sad to miss out on the hellos but at the time he was "elbow deep" in a ewe's uterus doing an emergency lamb intervention.

Not exactly a good moment for shaking hands.

We're now into the 3rd week of lambing.

Thank you to the volunteers who have been here in person as well as those sending meals to keep the team fueled up.

We would also like to say thank you to all of the kind messages of condolence for Boudicca the guardian dog.

The morning of Boudicca's last day, she was snuggled up with a lamb that had somehow gotten under a gate and couldn't get back to mom.

I'm not crying it's just a May Fly in the eye.

Through these daily musings and videos we invite you into our world - good, bad, muddy, bloody, happy, and sad.

Farming can be a very lonely occupation.

We exist here at the end of a gravel road, on an island, on the way to nowhere else.

On difficult days (specifically thinking of Boudicca's death) we can feel you walking beside us.

Shepherd Kyle and others carve a place for her with pick and shovel at a high spot in the Battery Pasture.

The clay soil and granIt hard-head boulders do not give up their space easily.

That feels appropriate.

Boudicca's cairn will catch the rising sun and the setting sun as she continues to watch over the flock.

Boudicca's stones will be a playspace for frolicking lambs for years to come.

Her life's work is complete and she will never be forgotten.

Thank you for being part of this adventure.

Thank you for helping us to keep the farmland as a farm.

Go softly to the grass mighty Boudicca May the tumble of little hooves fill your pasture for many years to come 📷Fran
05/29/2026

Go softly to the grass mighty Boudicca

May the tumble of little hooves fill your pasture for many years to come

📷Fran

Cuddle Puddle A foster lamb is a lamb that is identified by the shepherds as being vulnerable and in need of human inter...
05/28/2026

Cuddle Puddle

A foster lamb is a lamb that is identified by the shepherds as being vulnerable and in need of human intervention.

Topsy Farms' system has the flock give birth on pasture - this comes with benefits and drawbacks.

Benefit: natural. The sheep are outside in their own environment, heads down, eating grass.

They may return each year to the "little cedar tree in the corner by the stream" to have their baby.

Topsy has spent 52 years cultivating a breed of sheep who are hearty and well suited for being outside in Canada all year long .

Drawback: weather. May can be a particularly unsettled month.

Sheep and lambs can take cold or wind or rain, but when those elements combine, we get trouble.

Cold is one of the reasons a lamb might join the foster program.

Another reason is that mom might have multiple lambs or a malfunctioning udder and doesn't have sufficient milk.

Or the wee beastie just gets turned around or confused and starts following another sheep.

For whatever the reason, the results are nearly all the same.

The lamb is identified and snuggled into our "lamb-lugger" bundling sacks and brought home.

Once home we follow a protocol based on age, weight, temperature, and condition.

The care for a 5 day old lamb who has been lost and cold is totally different from a warm-newborn.

When the lamb is considered stable and not in danger, they enter our foster program.

The Topsy foster lamb, virtual adoption program is a way people can help us give these critters all the care they need.

These good humans help Topsy to offer this extra attention.

Raising a lamb with a bottle costs a lot of money (milk replacer is expensive) and multiple feedings per day require an enormous time commitment by the staff.

For a small fee, a lamb adopter gets to name their lamb, they receive a photo with some backstory, and they are offered a special visiting session.

More than paying for the naming rights, these humans help Topsy to fulfill our mission - to keep the farmland as a farm.

We also offer private cuddle sessions throughout the day.

We will drop a link to our 'Events' page in the bio ⬆️


Thank you to the photographers 🙏☺️

05/26/2026

Chaos Morning - Fox bite into a lamb's skull, ewe with prolapse, 2 lost and hungry lambs... And it isn't even 9am

Look For The HelpersThe pasture grasses are shooting up, defying gravity and the west wind.The calories contained within...
05/26/2026

Look For The Helpers

The pasture grasses are shooting up, defying gravity and the west wind.

The calories contained within will nourish the flock and in return, the sheep leave the gift of organic fertilizer.

Evening field check last night: a farmer catches an adorable moment - a week-old lamb blissfully surfing on its mother’s back, soaking in the final golden rays of the setting sun.

The ewe and her 2 lambs are aware of the farmer's presence and the threat of the ATV but we stay just outside of their zone-of-concern.

A quiet moment shared.

From the global perspective, events can feel out of control.

Billionaires compete with autocrats to loot as much wealth and power as possible - it is how they keep score.

It's like if the board game Risk and Monopoly spawned some voracious chimera game called: Here Now Be Dragons.

A famer envisions multiple Smaug-dragons in multiple mountains hoarding gold with an endless, insatiable appetite for more.

It's enough to allow for the loss of faith in a brighter future.

Look for the helpers.

Mr. Rogers famously shared a piece of advice from his mother during times of distress: "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

On the farm, we often look to the animals to be those helpers, grounding us when external events feel overwhelming.

The sheep don't care.

Amidst the long days, tired tractor batteries, and the endless psychological weight of keeping these wooly wonders safe, nature provides its own gentle medicine.

This little surfer reminds us to pause, breathe, and find moments of beauty right in the middle of the chaos.

Both our small chaos of the daily needs - how do we provide barn lighting during today's power outage?

To the bigger problems facing the province, the nation, the continent, the world.

Look for the helpers.

The warm sunshine has finally come.

If you are feeling a flutter of the unsettled inside you today, we hope this little, unbothered surfing lamb inspires a little courage.

There will be sunny pastures ahead.

Thank you for being part of this adventure.

Thank you for helping us to keep the farmland as a farm.

It was a joy to welcome them here.
05/25/2026

It was a joy to welcome them here.

Address

14775 Front Road
Walpole, NH
K0H2S0

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

+18882873157

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