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- Neighbors and friends who helped brand the calves in 2015.
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- The Campbell family employs traditional ranching techniques, natural horsemanship, working dogs, and low-stress livestock handling.
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- B-C Ranch raises black and red angus, bred over decades with a small frame to perform well on grass. These cattle have also been adapted to be able to survive the frigid winters of Northern Saskatchewan.
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- The drought of early 2015.
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- The corrals.
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- Looking for sick calves at the end of calving season.
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- Birch Campbell, chicken farmer and rancher in training.
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- Scott Campbell in the foreground on “Badger”.
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- Poor sandy ground, lush despite extremely dry conditions thanks to Holistically Managed grazing.
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- The intern’s horse for the first few days. 27 year old “Ranger”.
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- Another picture of land that was previously barren and sandy. The power of planned grazing.
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- The intern, Sheldon Frith, on “Ranger”. With smoke from forest fires clouding the sky.
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- Bluesette’s no-till potatoes, after being hit several times with late frost.
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- Another view of Bluesette’s no-till organic garden.
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- Bluesette’s perennial herb patch.
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- Moving the yearlings on a stormy day.
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- Don and Birch practicing low-stress stock handling while moving the cattle (previous picture). Scott in the background.
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- Another picture from that same day.
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- A map of the paddock divisions on B-C Ranch.
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- Birch holding some of the edible, and delicious, mushrooms that grow in B-C Ranch’s pastures.
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- The intern’s day out, strip-grazing the cattle with temporary fencing.
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- Beautiful shiny cattle, getting all they need from the land.
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- The trampling creates a beneficial “litter” layer which builds soil, holds water, and increases fertility for next year.
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- B-C Ranch cattle have been bred to an older style: shorter legs and bigger gut.
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- The results of high-density grazing. Awesome for the soil.
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- This is how its done. A single poly-wire holding in over 700 head of cattle.
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- The typical stock density of the cattle on B-C Ranch. Moved every 1-3 days.
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- Fall is coming.
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- The land on the right has just been grazed, but will look like the land on the left in a month or two.
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- Looking over the creek towards the barn and houses.
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- As the weather cools the wetland plants are the first to turn brown, they lose their nutrition and the cattle don’t like to eat them anymore.
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- Some of the poorer sandy ground on the ranch, although still much lusher than local forests which are untouched by livestock.
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- One of the two ranch trucks used for most daily activities (when horses aren’t appropriate). And “Rosy” the up-and-coming herd dog.
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- The land on the left is showing the benefits of very animal impact, the land on the right receives far less impact. Notice the photosynthesis continuing farther into the fall on the left than on the right.
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- A beautiful variation of the northern Boreal Forest, created by cattle.
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- Looking out over one of the lakes that borders the ranch.
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- Yearlings following the truck.
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- The view from the front porch of Mark and Bluesette’s house.
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- The same view, obscured by smoke that lasted for weeks. From nearby forest fires.
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- After the smoke lifted.
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- Mid-summer sunset.
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- A misty morning in late summer.
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- Fall is coming.
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- The long autumn of 2015.
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- After a fresh snow in late February.
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- “Benny”. A great horse.
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- A very large beaver house.
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- The heifers enjoying a very mild Saskatchewan winter.
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- Wolf tracks.
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- In northern winters, sunsets and sunrises last a long time.
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- The 2nd calvers feeding on straw bales in fresh snow.
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- The “frosted” cows eating a roled out hay bale.
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- The bull calves.
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- The bull calves again.
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- cutting a hole in the ice, to give the cows access to water (because there hasn’t been enough snow for them to eat).
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- The Ducks Unlimited dike system that provides an all-season access to most paddocks while protecting nesting grounds of migratory birds.
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- A beautiful winter morning, looking towards the shop and barn and houses.
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- Birch’s hens enjoying a warm day in winter on fresh straw.
