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The Mad Kings Garden
Yesterday R and I put a panel across the mad kings broken garden gate and let the Charlottes in to the mad kings garden to clean up. Neglected vegetable gardens are gold for pigs! The Mad Kings garden had gotten totally out of control but for some reason him indoors did not want anyone else…
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Sweetcorn, pumpkins, tomatoes, apples and wild plums.
Now is the time to begin gathering pig food from my own farm. As the crops ripen. Nothing is wasted. Waste has no place in a sustainable farm system. The sweetcorn has gone past the sweet stage so now I begin to chop the stalks (complete with corn) and throw the whole lot over the…
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Welcome Back to Illinois
Welcome back to Illinois where it thunders and lightenings and rains and rains and rains all night long. Which is great for the gardens and the fields but not so great for the weary traveler. After flying and flying and flying without a hitch I have arrived back at the farm. The corn is even…
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“Ask a Writer to Write and the Words Flow”. Sharyn.
Sharyn (of The Kale Chronicles ) has been reading The Kitchens Garden for years and years! I am very excited to have her a guest after all these years. I will tell you a secret – you know how often we associate people with colours. Every time I hear from Sharyn I think of purple,…
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Not Long Now
Two more days to go for me here in the hot dry suburbs of Visalia, California! Then back to Illinois and The Farmy. One more guest post to go for you – coming tomorrow. Yay! The guest posts have been a great success. I am really grateful to our contributors. They were awesome. We have…
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