Tending to what matters most.

Tending is where the How of Providence Lane Homestead is laid out clearly and concretely. Here you’ll find specific information about adaptive multi-paddock grazing, animal care and handling, welfare standards and accountability, the characteristics of this place, and how wool and fibre move from land and flock into the world. This is the practical spine of the work — the decisions, frameworks, and methods that guide day-to-day care.

If you’re looking for how grazing is planned, how animals are managed, what standards shape welfare and accountability, or how fibre is produced and made available, this is the place to start. The focus here is on clarity and transparency — what is done, how it’s done, and the structures that hold the work steady over time.

Yes, there’s some overlap with Living and that’s intentional. Practice and experience can’t be entirely separate on a working homestead. But the emphasis here is different: this isn’t the place for values discussions — that happens in Living. Instead, this section gathers the practical elements once they’ve settled enough to be named and shared. Living is the foundation, Tending is the house.

From time to time, fibre or related products from the homestead are made available here. They’re always an outcome of tending rather than its purpose, so availability is seasonal and finite — products may appear once and then disappear. Two years ago, one of our ewes gave us an abundance of milk and I spent weeks making soap. Unless that happens again, we may not have soap for the foreseeable future. If you’re looking for something specific but I’m not the right fit directly, I have a community of trusted local retail and small-business partners and I’m glad to help make connections. Just ask me!

If you’re interested in the grounded details of how this place is cared for, then you’re in the right spot — just you go and pull up a chair.

“Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Notes from Tending