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The List of Books to Read 2015
From the Fellowship of the Farmy. The readers of the kitchensgarden.com. This is a long list. A wonderful list. Good books we have read so far this year. Because some of you may want to print it out I have included no photographs. This will certainly take me and maybe you right into the reading winter…
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The List
Today I intend to compile your AMAZING list of books. Yesterday evening strong winds and rain from the South were forecast so after the milking Hugo and I closed up the barn, replaced spent light-bulbs, made softer and deeper beds for the pigs and calves, and led the big cows in under the trees with hay…
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The Winter Book List 2015
I have run out of books to read! I need a winter reading list. Every single night of my reading life (beginning at age 3) I have read a book in bed before going to sleep. And when the winter comes there may even be time to read a book in front of the fire…
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An open world
Imagine if we could travel the world and stay as long as we wanted in any country we chose to stay in. Just forget about a calendar, and politics and wander across borders and through towns and out into the wild. No paperwork or begging to stay. It seems that passports came into being around…
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How to season new cookware
There is nothing like a well seasoned cast iron pan. Once when I went to New Zealand to see my children John’s daughter decided my blackened, precious, well travelled cast iron pans, loaded with memories of meals, needed cleaning so for the two weeks I was away she soaked and scoured them with salt and…
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A Dot on the Horizon
Do you see that Little Dot on the Horizon? It could be a box, or a bag or a bucket blown in the wind but no -That is Tima. Looking back to the house she is This far from home. Searching the fields for that one little forgotton kernel of corn. It took the dogs…
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