Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Put your Life Jacket On First
It is hard to write a farm lifestyle blog without the life bit getting in the way sometimes. And as you know I try to keep family business private. Especially if it is not my business. So please forgive me my absences. Let me just say. Don’t be mean spirited. A person is a multi…
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Kept In The Dark
A friend came out to visit last night and said – I could hardly find your place! Why don’t you have a yard light. I couldn’t see your house from the road. There’s no light. All the farm houses around here have a big bright yard light so the whole of the environment is lit…
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Naturally Hatched Chicks
And I thought I was the only one with chicks in the Late Summer. But chickens have other ideas. This mama hen was wandering about the big pig’s weedy garden. Her newly hatched chicks scratching about in their (the pigs) dinner spot. It did not feel safe. But there you are. As I write this…
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Chicks!!! Lots of Them!
Fifty in fact. All bright eyed and bushy tailed!! Plus they arrived a day early (which accounts for their excellent condition – they hatched on Monday – despatched on Wednesday). And of course I was not fully ready but thankfully both the heating lamps were working ok and Our John ran to the store to…
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Cover Crops Need Loving Too
Our cover crops in the big fields did not get a good start this year due to the dryness of the early summer. So there is a bit too much grass in there for my liking. Nature abhors a vacuum so where the red clover did not take off; a ditch grass grew. And in…
The Kitchen's Garden 