About Three Gables Farm

Why is the Tiroler Grauvieh good for Canada?

The land of milk and honey and cattle as fat as elephants is tired from a century of exploitation. The times of growing things as big as one can in as short a time as possible must come to an end. Planting crops by the section of land, and fattening cattle in factory lots by the tens of thousands is not sustainable. We are creating climate changes,... [Read more of this article]

Family cows

Once the norm, but today keeping a family cow in our western nations is rare, and considered an eccentricity of a few longing for a more wholesome and home-bound life. Keeping a family cow is certainly not for everyone. It definately doesn’t make for a “simple life” in that it makes life simple, but it does raise awarenes about... [Read more of this article]

Welcome

Welcome to Three Gables Farm on Salt Spring Island, on the north pacific coast of the beautiful province of British Columbia in Canada. Our little piece of land is the far away home for beautiful cows from the mountains of the Swiss Alps, Austria’s Tirol, and the alpine valley of Savoy . The farmhouse in 2008. The first white Christmas in decades. The... [Read more of this article]

About us

Colin and Natascha with the girls Love affair with the Alps and the cows. Growing up in the foothills of the Alps in the very south German state of Baden Wurttemberg, just above Switzerland and next to France, I had the very good fortune and privilege to spent may weekends, vacations, and school trips submerged in the mountains and culture of the alpine... [Read more of this article]

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