Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Northern Cardinals come home to roost.
Hairy MacLairy has been brought into the barn for a short visit because he keeps scraping his knees. Blood and flies in the field can be a nasty mix. I have been trying to treat his grazes in the field but he hates the wound spray and gallops away when he sees me coming. Then…
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A rare sighting of miss c and Broccoli with Garlic Soup
I have begun to investigate slow cooking. With the arrival of Daisy’s calf fast approaching, and Sheila the Babe (hopefully this week), then the milking and the cheese making, I will have at least another two hours work a day and that does not include the clean up. The barn I can clean with a…
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Hot Chicks.. the unsung heroes of Sustainable Farming!
Our John said if I wrote Hot Chicks in the title I would attract the wrong kind of reader. But I don’t know. I don’t think so. And If you like Hot Chicks you might like the farmy too.. everyone eats. But it was so hot yesterday, hovering just under 100 degrees, as the Coke…
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The Perfect Pig Bath and dark chocolatey Brownies
You will remember that the Pigs had their paddling pool confiscated because they mistook it for a toilet. I have experimented with all kind containers that I can fill with water for them to wallow in. Usually they just empty the water out and play on the concrete. Shoving the offending receptacle around with their…
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Working alone on the Farmy is Never Lonely
As you know I get up very early so that I can post today’s page around dawn every morning. The night before I will have embedded the best of that days shots into a post, jotted down a few rough ideas and after visiting as many of you as I can, I do the late…
The Kitchen's Garden 