Good morning everyone. 
We spent almost all morning in the garden yesterday, weeding and gathering for our vegan feast. The young people were entranced by the Duke of Kupa, who spent a lot of time sashaying about looking gorgeous. His tail sways as he walks.
Showing off his feathers and his wives.
Look at our darling Queenie. No, Queenie honey, only Daisy comes into the milking parlour. 
You have to wait outside. Stay with Hairy like a good cow. No, I am not laughing at you Queenie, I am laughing with you.
In the afternoon I brought up another super of honey and strained and bottled it. 
The honey is still the same light shade – the light in this shot just makes some of them look darker. So far we have harvested 14 pints ( about 8 litres) from that super and more coming. It is not very warm so it is dripping slowly. Oops I forgot the milk. Wait! 
There, the Land of Milk and Honey.
Good morning. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. More gardening and hopefully fencing for us today. The weather is so cool that we are roaring through the outside work.
Well done on so many of you getting all the sheep’s names right. You didn’t know there was going to be a test did you!! For the record Minty is much smaller than Meadow. Hand raised lambs will never be as robust as lambs who are brought up on mother’s milk. She will catch up though. Look how big Mia is now.
As you know every morning after the milking, the feeding out and the cleaning up is done, I come back to the study for an hour cruising about looking to see what you are all up to. I place the new post on my Farmy FaceBook page. Share any images and posts from you guys that catch my eye. (I am working on doing more of that too. It is easy to share in these mediums.) Then I post my favourite shot from my own Post onto my pinterest Farmy board. Today I am going to have a hard time choosing a favourite. I might just wait and see what you have to say.
Have a lovely day.
celi
Look what was happening on the farmy on this day a year ago. I had a very weak hive last year so I put two hives together. Combining two Bee Hives. This hive performed very well this summer. We just collected their honey yesterday. So this is a well timed retrospective. I really am enjoying reading these old posts.
The Kitchen's Garden 
49 responses to “The Land of Milk and Honey”
I hope you had a magnificent feast my friend 😀
Kupa is so gorgeous when he is casually showing off like this 😉
And those shots of honey have me wondering why I don’t like it – honestly it looks like natures best sweet! 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Ooooh! Must go and join the Facebook page, Celi! That Kupa, he’s quite the charmer, isn’t he?
The milk and honey shot is perfect! You have a great eye for capturing the best photos, C!! She’s a beauty and looks like a regal indoor cat, not a farmy cat!
Milk, honey, and a strutting peacock – to say nothing of the cool weather. My favourite is the shot of Kupa with a stripe of brilliance over his body. What a difference a bit of sunlight makes.
I love all of them today! But partial to the milk & honey shot, so lovely 🙂
“Land of Milk and Honey” photo for me. I just liked your FB page. I wonder if there is a number I can call for my farmy addiction? 😉
The Land of Milk and Honey images is brilliant. Brilliant.
In the low 60s today here in Minnesota with rain.
I saw the words ‘vegan feast’ and became curious…sounds delightful! Must say, LUV the arty shot with the colours blocked by the sun casting through the barn window(?)…so fab!
Yuuuummmm…the one food that never goes bad. Amazing. Glad to see you have time to visit Valerie. I suspected you’d appreciate her taste and talent.
Another vote for ‘the Land of Milk and Honey’ – one of the most contented puss photos i have ever seen! But Queenie, are you sure she is laughing: some sadness in them’there eyes methinks 🙂 !
why does the honey have different shades? wouldn’t it all be the same coming from the same place? obviously I’m a newb! have fun with the company this weekend!
Your jars of honey are looking good! No more harvesting for me – I’m too worried I won’t leave enough for my girls to winter with. What do you suppose they gathered to make the honey so pale? I bet it is delicious no matter the color!
yellow blossom clover, the fields are full of it.. and it has a rich taste too! I also am leaving a good two and a half supers for each hive, it might be a long winter!! c
Cinders…I have been away…to the wilds of Canada…to my beloved Loon Lk….with no internet or cell service…which was wonderful but have missed your posts very much and am now trying to catch up! I LOVE that photo of Queenie at the barn door but I’m confused…who is the little one with her?? Is that Bobby Blanc??
Your honey looks lovely, honey!! 🙂
I believe that all of us have this picture way, way, way back in our minds. It is the epitome of something perfect, something wonderful. We knew it existed. We just had to find it. Everyone who reads this post and all the others you write Celi, will find their own personal Shangri-la, their land of milk and honey. Virginia
Great photos. You my fellow kiwi, you are living the dream!