Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther

• Caught on film with her head in a Pig Trough!

  First we need a lesson in topping. I hate topping.  Topping is when you mow the tops off the pasture in the fields. We have more grass than stock this year which is good. And was in the sustainable plan.  We are not at full strength as far as stock goes.   Not yet. I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 4, 2012

  Farm Animals, Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Ayrshire almost ready to calve, hereford pigs, peacock, peahen, topping pasture

• Farmy Walkabout

  We are not looking directly at Daisy, in fact this shot is of Peghorn.  Do you see him.  Bottom left.That little patch of orange feathers.  Apparently Daisy is doing a Mama and not looking at us either.  She is being so good, and so patient – her udder is just so enormous now that it…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 3, 2012

  Bees, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  hereford pigs, micro farming, pigs, sustainable farming

• Introducing Sheila who has spotty ears and .. um, Charlotte.. OOPS

  The Swine Herd was sitting on a lawn chair,  in the shade,  just inside his stables.  Like an old gunslinger outside a dusty tavern. He was an old man, tall, handsome and vigorous.  He unfolded himself from his chair and strode across to open the door of the car as I came to a halt.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 2, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  cat with pigs, hereford piglets, pictures, piglets, swine

• In my kitchen and Sheila the Babe comes today

  It is dawn of  June the 1st here. Celia over at Fig Jam and Lime Cordial has a little tradition of greeting the new month with a look at some of the new bits and pieces in her kitchen.  And she very kindly invites us to do the same. As we are still waiting for Daisy…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 1, 2012

  Farm Animals, Sustainable farming

  cat playing with pig, cow, golden syrup, in my kitchen, lemon squeezer, recycling

• The Sleepy Eye of my Mind

  When I first dreamed of having peacocks, this was the scene I saw in the sleepy eye of my mind. Kupa up on a fence surveying the farmy.  His colours  flashing but somehow blending with the surroundings. A tail like a collection of impossibly precious emerald brooches draped so casually across  the rustic fence.  Kupa…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 31, 2012

  Farm Animals, Life, Sustainable farming, The Farmy

  guinea fowl image, lamb with cat, lamb with guineas, old people, peacocks image, responsibility, retirement homes